Audiobookshelf

Audiobookshelf organizes audiobooks and podcasts into a clean library, tracks listening progress across devices, and ships companion mobile apps. It handles messy folder structures better than most media servers and can fetch metadata and covers automatically.

Its scope is deliberately narrow — audio only — and that focus shows in details like chapter support, sleep timers and per-user progress. Setup is a straightforward single container.

If audiobooks are a big part of your life, run this alongside your main media server rather than forcing them into it.