kibasnowpaw
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Sorry if this is the wrong place for this. I was not fully sure where it fit best, so I posted it here. If it belongs somewhere else, feel free to move it.
I made a Flatpak app for managing audiobook metadata, mainly because I never really found anything out there that did what I wanted in the way I wanted it done. Most of what I tried either felt more like a media player, a downloader, or just did not handle the kind of overview and editing I wanted for a larger audiobook library.
So I ended up making my own.
It is called BookLibConnect right now, though that name will probably change later. The app is made for editing and managing audiobook metadata, browsing by author and series, showing covers in a cleaner way, tracking read status, ownership in a series, and also tracking review progress from Goodreads and Audible. Goodreads review progress is shown at series level together with read and owned counts, while Audible review data can be added per track or per book.
One thing I cared about a lot was making it feel more like a library manager than a player. I wanted something where I could actually keep track of a big collection and clean it up properly instead of just throwing files in folders and hoping for the best. I also made custom series covers for a lot of my albums just to keep the library looking cleaner and more consistent.
It is still alpha. It already does most of what I want, but it is not finished yet. I still want to add search, better sorting, A-Z and other sort options like length and new to old, more statistics, better long-term tracking, and it still needs testing on more systems. Right now it has only been tested on Ubuntu Server 25.10 with KDE Plasma and GNOME.
I should also say straight up that I am not some coding guru or hardcore developer. I made this because I wanted the tool for myself and kept building on it until it started becoming something real. Since I already made it and use it myself, I figured there is no real reason to just hide it away if somebody else might get some use out of it too.
So if anyone wants to look at it, test it, or just give thoughts on the idea, here is the GitHub repo:
https://github.com/kibasnowpaw/BookLibConnect
I made a Flatpak app for managing audiobook metadata, mainly because I never really found anything out there that did what I wanted in the way I wanted it done. Most of what I tried either felt more like a media player, a downloader, or just did not handle the kind of overview and editing I wanted for a larger audiobook library.
So I ended up making my own.
It is called BookLibConnect right now, though that name will probably change later. The app is made for editing and managing audiobook metadata, browsing by author and series, showing covers in a cleaner way, tracking read status, ownership in a series, and also tracking review progress from Goodreads and Audible. Goodreads review progress is shown at series level together with read and owned counts, while Audible review data can be added per track or per book.
One thing I cared about a lot was making it feel more like a library manager than a player. I wanted something where I could actually keep track of a big collection and clean it up properly instead of just throwing files in folders and hoping for the best. I also made custom series covers for a lot of my albums just to keep the library looking cleaner and more consistent.
It is still alpha. It already does most of what I want, but it is not finished yet. I still want to add search, better sorting, A-Z and other sort options like length and new to old, more statistics, better long-term tracking, and it still needs testing on more systems. Right now it has only been tested on Ubuntu Server 25.10 with KDE Plasma and GNOME.
I should also say straight up that I am not some coding guru or hardcore developer. I made this because I wanted the tool for myself and kept building on it until it started becoming something real. Since I already made it and use it myself, I figured there is no real reason to just hide it away if somebody else might get some use out of it too.
So if anyone wants to look at it, test it, or just give thoughts on the idea, here is the GitHub repo:
https://github.com/kibasnowpaw/BookLibConnect
