It’s sort of weird to upload because it’s already on the hard drive where I want it to go… Just has to get squeezed back and forth through the pipes of my LAN a few times to go through this process.

yes that is correct. it is a server/client solution so you can track you progress.

zero finding ability. try Lazy Librarian.

remember that audiobooks are relatively rare due to their high production costs. so a lot of books do not have an audio version. Could consider text to speech.

there are some massive torrents that have like thousands of audiobooks in them and you have to go and select which ones to download. I’m not sure how I stumbled on these in the past so if you figure that out let me know.

But he paid $40B for twitter. $250M is the kind of bargain you only get after prior investment.

(And I guess I found something an individual can buy for >$1B, which is even more reason to prohibit anyone from having this much money.)

I think the ballot reform really helped in this case. We need ballot reform.

AFAIK even seemingly successful musicians often don’t really make out with much cash. They incur a lot of costs even under the most “honest” industry contracts. Then there are cases of getting blatantly scammed like the Backstreet Boys or George Clinton.

because

wrong.

you can buy a lot of political favors

you could make money depreciate over time so it couldn’t be hoarded.

Readarr is just a tool that facilitates downloading via bittorrent or usenet. You can just use those the old fashioned way without it.

Edit: The program Lazy Librarian that some people are mentioning also assists with the searching and downloading, if you prefer not to do it by hand.

You can purchase audiobooks too, especially from authors who make them available on DRM-free platforms.

And there’s always https://librivox.org/

I used lazy librarian years ago; actually it was one of the first local services I ran. Tried it more recently and had install issues; I think possibly due to my squeamishness around docker. The main dev seems helpful and consistently active.

Ya I mean I understand at the end of the day the devs have the prerogative to run their project as they please. And it’s smart to have a constrained set of requirements rather than trying to be all things to all people. There’s always a cost to flexibility.

I serve my TV and movies from jellyfin and it is not as prescriptive. As an imperfect workaround, the additional files can be put into a separate directory that sonarr/radarr doesn’t have access to but jellyfin does.

For books, calibre tips the balance completely in the other direction of total flexibility. It’s very powerful and with the right skills it can be made to do all kinds of tasks. But it’s hardly the smooth initial experience of the arrs.

From my experience, the most comprehensive and robust metadata harvester is the citation manager Zotero. They have spent a lot of work on building a metadata system that is both easy to use but accounts for different versions of the same work. In academic writing you need to cite the actual document you used because it could change over time, editions, etc. Instead of making their own database, they use various 3rd party collections. And of course you must be able to customize or create items for scholarly work. There is about 15 years of chat on their forums/repos of people arguing how to best identify and apply the appropriate metadata and it’s not at all smooth going even there.

The whole collection of software forces the user to limit themselves to the single version of canonical media which has been officially sanctioned by a centralized authority.

The more mainstream and corporate your media and arts interests are, the less you will notice this problem. But even with TV and movies it is a barrier once you deviate. With music and books, which due to lower production costs are literally endless in number, variations, mixes, imprints, translations, editions, covers, releases etc, it is an impossible model.

I don’t know if it’s too much inference but I sort of feel bad for the developers. This assumption about the superiority of homogeneous media and art pervades the projects in a way which suggests it is completely invisible to them. It’s very bleak.

I’m not sure if I properly get the concept but it seems that rreading-glasses is something you use in addition to readarr not an independent application.

I can’t offer any specific advice but there seem to be a great many projects going to fill this need:

https://alternativeto.net/software/spotify/?license=opensource&platform=self-hosted

https://github.com/awesome-selfhosted/awesome-selfhosted?tab=readme-ov-file#media-streaming---audio-streaming

I used LL years ago before I got into any of the arrs. I was planning to return to it but ran into some sort of install/dependency issues. Maybe I’ll give it another whirl in case they’ve solved spontaneously.

I’m actually using Audiobookshelf as my main server. I just wanted Readarr to get metadata and organize the folders. Do you have any workflow tips for that?

I’m hoping someone will have some info about what happened because it seems strange. What does this mean?

Unlike R——'s proprietary service, this is much faster, handles large authors, has full coverage of G——R—— (or Hardcover!)

ctrl + f guillotine

ctrl + f prison

ctrl + f jail

ctrl + f sentence

ctrl + f fine

not illegal enough

You mentioned 1.6m. Here is what the source I found which is extremely biased towards you, says about 1.6m:

900,000 and 1.6 million Ukrainian citizens, including 260,000 children, from their homes to Russia – often to isolated regions in the Far East.

So adults outnumber children 6 to 1. If this is a plan to take children, it seems to be very poorly executed.

Looks to me that people are being moved as groups and children are part of any group. You’d prefer they be left alone to fend for themselves in a war zone?

Cursory websearch suggests your info, however accurate it may have been in the first place, is stale by 3 years.

Even that source doesn’t mention genocide. It does mention the Geneva convention, which sounds kind of similar but they are serious things so try to keep track of them. It’s shitty to toss around terms like this without any regard to the gravity of them.

Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide | OHCHR:

Article II

In the present Convention, genocide means any of the following acts committed with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnical, racial or religious group, as such:

(a) Killing members of the group;

(b) Causing serious bodily or mental harm to members of the group;

© Deliberately inflicting on the group conditions of life calculated to bring about its physical destruction in whole or in part;

(d) Imposing measures intended to prevent births within the group;

(e) Forcibly transferring children of the group to another group.

Relocating people itself is not genocide.