Self-Hosting Audiobooks with Audiobookshelf and Docker

Like many people with the homelab itch, you’ll inevitably want to self-host more and more applications. The challenge lies in striking a balance between self-hosting and using other solutions. One can easily spiral into hosting everything in their closet and struggling to maintain it when other great options are available. That said, I occasionally get that itch. My existing Docker media stack already handled movies, TV shows, requests, subtitles, and playback through the arr applications and Jellyfin. The only major thing missing was a way to self-host my Audiobooks. I had previously liberated my Audiobooks from Audible using Libation years ago and so this was the next logical step. The first part was simply settling on the same folder structure as my films and TV shows where everything lives under /data on the host: data ├── torrents │ ├── completed │ └── incomplete └── media ├── audiobooks ├── movies └── tv I followed that by copying Audiobookshelf’s docker-compose.yml template,…