https://video.elfhosted.com/videos/watch/8c5e40a4-ddef-44db-91b1-e26f94165113 Audiobookshelf is an audiobook server for the whole family. Hosted on ElfHosted, your phone apps reach it from anywhere, with no port-forwarding. Hosted Audiobookshelf on ElfHosted has its own secure address, so the free phone apps connect from anywhere, with no port-forwarding and no computer at home to keep awake. We keep it running and updated, and put your ElfHosted login in front of the web page; the phone apps use Audiobookshelf's own accounts. Already keep your audiobooks in cloud storage? Connect it and Audiobookshelf reads them from there, or upload them directly. What is Audiobookshelf? An open-source audiobook server and podcast app from the Audiobookshelf project, for the books you own. Upload them and it sorts them into a library, with covers, narrators, series and chapters. Everyone in the family gets their own login, so their place, bookmarks and listening history are theirs alone. Add Storyteller to the same ElfHosted stack for read-along books. It's backed up daily, and you can restore it yourself whenever you need to. If something goes wrong, Sam, ElfHosted's AI helper, checks your actual apps, tells you what's wrong, and asks before fixing it. And when you'd rather talk to a person, the ElfHosted team is on Discord around the clock, in a family-friendly, carefully moderated server. You bring the audiobooks. Start with a 7-day trial. Audiobookshelf is open source; ElfHosted is not affiliated with the Audiobookshelf project. You can support its developer through the link below. It's one place for support for every app you run with us, handled by professionals, instead of a GitHub issue, docs that may be out of date, or yet another Discord per project. Unlike a generic chatbot, which guesses and overcomplicates, Sam is tuned on these apps and the way we run them: he safely reads your actual logs and proposes a fix, and nothing changes until you approve it. Start a 7-day trial: https://store.elfhosted.com/product/audiobookshelf/?utm_source=peertube&utm_medium=video&utm_campaign=audiobookshelf Audiobookshelf docs: https://docs.elfhosted.com/app/audiobookshelf/?utm_source=peertube&utm_medium=video&utm_campaign=audiobookshelf ElfHosted: https://elfhosted.com/?utm_source=peertube&utm_medium=video&utm_campaign=audiobookshelf Support the Audiobookshelf developer: https://github.com/sponsors/advplyr Chapters 0:00 Intro 0:14 What is Audiobookshelf 0:26 Running Audiobookshelf yourself 0:58 Hosted Audiobookshelf, kept running for you 1:16 Use your own cloud storage About ElfHosted: we run open-source apps for you, kept updated and looked after by elves, so you get the apps without the upkeep. [s]elf-hosting without [s]uffering. https://elfhosted.com?utm_source=peertube&utm_medium=video #Audiobookshelf #Audiobooks #ElfHosted Sun, 04 Oct 2026 09:54:58 GMT https://validator.w3.org/feed/docs/rss2.html PeerTube - https://video.elfhosted.com https://video.elfhosted.com/lazy-static/avatars/0ad9ef41-d7cc-447f-b89c-24dcddbb6422.png https://video.elfhosted.com/videos/watch/8c5e40a4-ddef-44db-91b1-e26f94165113 All rights reserved, unless otherwise specified in the terms specified at https://video.elfhosted.com/about and potential licenses granted by each content's rightholder.