Eight days of app, written down
The manual stopped at 2026-10-06 and the app did not. What it now says
that it did not:
Installing on Proxmox, a page of its own: the one command, what Default
settings makes, why the container is privileged and what to do if you
would rather it were not, the two pct lines that mount your collection,
where everything lives, updating, and taking it off again.
There is always an administrator. The old text said an install with no
password set was simply unlocked; it is not, it refuses to open at all
until somebody makes one. That changes the first run on both install
pages, the Home page, and the whole administrator section of Sharing
with others.
Who is listening was a dropdown you typed a name into. It is an account
you sign in to, and has been for a while.
A missing volume is a line now, not a card with a drawn cover, in both
halves of Series to complete. A book in no series says No Series rather
than saying nothing and reading as part of the series above it. The
Maintenance column shows only rows that have something in them.
Unabridged, which is the book's fact and not a listener's. The red dot
on the icon when a newer version is out, and what each kind of install
can do about it. Listening on a phone showing up on the desktop, and
the two things that are careful about. One Music Assistant provider is
one listener for everybody, which is how somebody else's Star Wars book
reached Frank's Continue listening. Converting carries on when you close
the page.
Every [[link]] and every #anchor in the manual checked to resolve.
The database keeps copies of itself
The books are on a share and survive almost anything; where everybody
is in them was in one file with no second copy anywhere, and the audio
cannot rebuild it. Settings reference says what is kept, where, how
many, and — the part worth writing down before it is needed — how to
put one back.
Incomplete series live under Maintenance, not in Settings
Series to complete: asking Wikidata which volumes exist
The list of every series with a volume missing
Settings goes through the whole collection and names the series with a hole in
them, widest hole first, a row opening that series in the library. The same
counting as the line under a series head, so the same limits: no quota, no key,
and nothing said about a volume past the highest one owned. The series with no
volume numbers at all are named under the table, because an empty table would
otherwise read as good news when it might only mean nobody has numbered anything.
ffmpeg and ffprobe come with the container
Converting .m4b and .ogg to MP3, and the two tools it needs
The Settings pulldown, and every picture on 2.0.16
Settings in the header is a menu over the two kinds of settings now -- the library
and its maintenance, and Home Assistant -- so every header in every picture said
the wrong thing. All retaken, plus one of the menu itself on the Settings
reference page.
The pages that said 'Settings → …' now say which of the two to pick.
Every picture retaken on 2.0.8, and a page for Home Assistant
All 24 screenshots were of 1.10.x and had drifted: no cover glyphs, no series
ticks, an older Settings dialog, and lists that had gone empty. They are all
retaken from one demo library in one run, so they are of the same app in the same
state -- eight books over four genres, a series folder, two books in progress and
one marked listened, three waiting in the import folder.
The lists that need something to show now show something: the import comparison
is a real second copy of The Shining, Replaced is what that left behind, Not
counted is a folder with its audio one level too deep, Broken on disk is a book
whose folder was renamed away, and the trash holds a deleted book.
New: Home-Assistant.md, with the page, the token, the six sensors and playing a
book on a media player. Linked from the sidebar and from Home.
Also brought up to date: the cover being a play button, the drawn covers turning
their colours over nightly, the series a lookup offers and why it sometimes
offers none, and the Settings sections for Home Assistant, the series report and
folder permissions -- with PUID, PGID, UMASK, GOOGLE_COUNTRY, HA_TOKEN and
BASE_URL in the container table.
No path or name of anyone's appears in any picture: the demo library is at
\audiobooks, its data folder at \data, and the Home Assistant it talks to is a
stand-in.
The whole-collection tag write runs on the server
Checking the books against the disk
The admin password is set on the container only
Settings can tidy up cover files no book uses
A manual for My Audiobook Collection