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[1545.66 --> 1550.86] And so with Brent staying with us, you know, we've been talking about books and stuff, and we thought, well, there's got to be a better way. |
[1551.16 --> 1559.56] My wife has been using BookSonic for many, many years, which is a Java-based application based on top of the old Subsonic base. |
[1560.52 --> 1562.62] It's fine, I guess. |
[1562.62 --> 1568.56] I mean, it's pretty reliable until it breaks because it's a Java app, you know, there's some memory leak somewhere or something. |
[1568.66 --> 1570.06] It just doesn't quite work and it crashes. |
[1570.72 --> 1576.08] So I actually have a job to restart BookSonic every day because it's not the most reliable application. |
[1576.82 --> 1586.52] So I saw on Reddit the other day there was an application called Audiobookshelf had been released, and this is a self-hosted audiobook server for managing and playing your audiobooks. |
[1586.52 --> 1587.90] It's still early days. |
[1588.46 --> 1594.60] The first commit, the first release, actually, sorry, was only in September 2021, so it's not even a year old yet. |
[1595.36 --> 1602.72] And I don't know if you remember the old iOS, like, iBooks application that was, like, skeuomorphic with, like, the wooden bookshelves and all that. |
[1603.14 --> 1604.26] This is what this thing looks like. |
[1604.32 --> 1605.46] Yeah, the best version, you mean? |
[1605.54 --> 1606.38] Yeah, I remember that. |
[1606.48 --> 1607.06] I loved it. |
[1607.08 --> 1608.88] Were you and Scott Forstall good buddies back then? |
[1608.96 --> 1609.22] Yeah. |
[1609.72 --> 1610.82] Nice callback, dude. |
[1610.86 --> 1611.16] Yes. |
[1611.50 --> 1612.78] I like the skeuomorphism. |
[1612.86 --> 1613.30] Why not? |
[1613.30 --> 1614.54] You got that high-resolution screen. |
[1614.64 --> 1615.30] Let's make it look good. |
[1615.30 --> 1616.52] Yeah, it's got the wood shelves. |
[1616.96 --> 1619.26] It's got nice, big, bold book covers. |
[1619.92 --> 1620.58] This is great. |
[1621.28 --> 1627.54] Well, it looks great, and I think it's got a lot of potential, but it's sadly not quite ready for primetime yet. |
[1628.10 --> 1633.30] So I tried out the iOS app, which I had to install that test flight thing because it's not properly in the app store yet. |
[1633.42 --> 1635.46] It's, like, the application is in beta. |
[1636.14 --> 1640.38] And let me tell you, it's most definitely in probably alpha stage right now. |
[1640.84 --> 1644.02] I had two versions across the last two days where I was testing it. |
[1644.02 --> 1648.00] The first version didn't load any of the audiobooks from my library at all. |
[1648.20 --> 1651.80] So even though I had a few hundred books in the library, it just said library empty. |
[1652.48 --> 1654.18] Okay, that's a bit of a problem. |
[1654.70 --> 1659.22] Luckily, there was an update available, so I pulled down that update and installed it from the test flight app. |
[1660.80 --> 1662.32] And then I tried to do... |
[1662.32 --> 1669.80] It found the books this time, but I tried to test the syncing of playback positions between the browser on my laptop and my phone in my hand. |
[1670.62 --> 1671.64] And it worked-ish. |
[1672.54 --> 1680.28] So if I started playing the book on my phone and skipped to a certain chapter, the browser would update in real time as to where I was, and it would save that status. |
[1680.40 --> 1682.48] If I closed the browser and come back, it would remember it. |
[1682.48 --> 1686.76] If I closed the iOS app, it would just start at the beginning every time. |
[1687.36 --> 1689.24] So there's obviously some work to do. |
[1689.54 --> 1692.74] It's not quite there yet, but it's extremely promising. |
[1693.44 --> 1694.18] Hmm, okay. |
[1694.76 --> 1702.06] Yeah, I'd like something that I could use reliably on the desktop and on mobile, because sometimes I want to sit down and I want to listen on my desktop speakers. |
[1702.06 --> 1708.18] And I need something that's really usable by the wife, and she likes Prologue quite a bit. |
[1708.30 --> 1716.00] I also set it up for my son Dylan, and I used Plex Collections to create just a collection of books for Dylan. |
[1716.50 --> 1720.52] And then, you know, when he signs on on Prologue, he just sees... |
[1720.52 --> 1723.18] He goes to the Collections tab, and he just sees all the books that I've already picked for him. |
[1723.80 --> 1728.10] And so over lunch, we were talking with Brent about how to get him access to my book Sonic. |
[1728.22 --> 1731.78] Because it's behind my firewall, typically I just give my wife my Wireguard. |
[1732.06 --> 1732.38] Access. |
[1733.34 --> 1735.70] I love Brent, but I don't want to give him full access to my LAN. |
[1735.86 --> 1738.56] You know, I can't trust his phone that's literally about to catch fire. |
[1739.46 --> 1740.78] You know the one I'm talking about. |
[1740.86 --> 1742.54] It's literally the batteries popping out the thing. |
[1743.14 --> 1744.96] I can't believe you're letting him bring that in the house. |
[1745.22 --> 1746.34] You have a family now. |
[1746.42 --> 1747.40] You've got to get that out of there. |
[1749.44 --> 1757.56] And so I was looking at Tailscale, and they actually offer a way to share a specific server as an exit node with someone else with a Tailscale account. |
[1757.56 --> 1765.34] So what I'm thinking of doing is sharing just my media server with Brent as an exit node, and then he should be able to access Book Sonic that way. |
[1765.84 --> 1768.20] Oh, now this is excellent. |
[1769.64 --> 1771.80] Tailscale.com slash self-hosted. |
[1771.80 --> 1778.02] You know, Alex, what we ought to consider is playing around with that for helipad so you guys can see the boosts. |
[1778.46 --> 1787.60] Because I have my Bitcoin node on Tailscale, and that's how I read the boosts that people send in from anywhere I'm at on my phone. |
[1788.06 --> 1790.60] Whenever I need a pick-me-up, I'm not even kidding. |
[1790.70 --> 1794.66] Whenever I need a pick-me-up, I pull up the boost page, and it just always puts a smile on my face. |
[1794.66 --> 1798.02] So if we could figure out a way for you to read those, I'd probably do the same for you. |
[1798.46 --> 1801.48] Now, if you don't know, Tailscale is a zero-config VPN. |
[1802.14 --> 1804.32] You can install on just about any dang device you've got. |
[1804.42 --> 1806.04] I mean, any device. |
[1806.54 --> 1810.76] A mobile device, an ARM device, a Raspberry Pi, an x86 server. |
[1810.88 --> 1813.44] It'll help you manage your firewalls, and it works from anywhere. |
[1813.82 --> 1817.28] I found the coolest thing today in the feature request section. |
[1817.56 --> 1819.78] They're adding Android TV support. |
[1819.92 --> 1820.76] Can you believe this? |
[1821.12 --> 1822.10] I'm so excited. |
[1822.10 --> 1824.74] This is going to make me keep a shield. |
[1825.02 --> 1827.72] I have one shield left, and this is going to make me keep it. |
[1827.80 --> 1828.96] Think about this for a second. |
[1829.28 --> 1837.14] Think about how amazing this could be when you're traveling, and then you reconnect to your home network, and it just discovers your media server like you're right there on your land. |
[1837.24 --> 1841.10] Or you have family members, or maybe there's some content you want to get access to. |
[1841.48 --> 1842.84] This is next-level stuff. |
[1842.84 --> 1852.92] And Tailscale is in this beautiful, beautiful, sweet space where they've just created this amazing tool with just enough infrastructure to make it work like you need. |
[1853.08 --> 1857.58] And they use WireGuard's noise protocol for the security of it, which you know is great. |
[1857.58 --> 1861.26] And they support your single sign-on provider. |
[1861.50 --> 1864.04] If you're a corporate user, like you could use whatever you want. |
[1864.20 --> 1868.82] And for me, I'm using my Google account with two-factor authentication, which just gives me a little bit extra peace of mind. |
[1869.26 --> 1871.40] And the best part is wherever I'm at. |
[1871.48 --> 1879.28] If I'm at Alex's house, if I'm on the road, if I'm back here at the studio, I just use the same IP for the devices I need to visit all the time. |
[1879.28 --> 1881.40] It's one flat WireGuard network. |
[1881.78 --> 1884.92] And you can put a DNS server in there, and you've got name resolution. |
[1885.36 --> 1886.58] There's ACL support. |
[1886.86 --> 1889.36] There's exit node support, like Alex was talking about. |
[1889.88 --> 1894.16] It's such a, like, take my work to the next level kind of tool. |
[1894.48 --> 1902.88] I am thrilled they are sponsoring this show because I can completely enthusiastically endorse this because this is making how I do my job better. |
[1903.16 --> 1905.72] And I think it would really be a great tool for you, too. |
[1905.72 --> 1914.96] So go check it out, try it out, support the show, and get a free account for up to 20 devices when you go to tailscale.com slash self-hosted. |
[1915.08 --> 1917.98] That's tailscale.com slash self-hosted. |
[1920.32 --> 1924.52] Now, I want to take a moment to say thank you to our Site Reliability Engineer subscribers. |
[1924.78 --> 1928.48] You make this show possible over at self-hosted.show slash SRE. |
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