Small update on my Audiobook Shelf Manager project.
I made some big changes to the app and it is finally starting to work the way I wanted.
What changed:
- Moved the old “Set Library Root” action out of the main toolbar
- Added a real Settings menu
- Built a proper Settings window with left-side navigation, kind of like a game settings screen
- Added support for multiple library folders instead of only one
- The app now remembers those folders when I open it again
- Multiple folders are scanned into one combined gallery
- Added better support for duplicate artist names across different roots
- Artist grouping now works better for albums with multiple authors/artists
- Albums can show under more than one artist when the metadata has multiple names
- Grouping now prefers Album Artist, then falls back to Artist, then folder names if tags are missing
This was a pretty big quality-of-life upgrade for me because I had been jumping back and forth between folders before. Now I can keep things like my homemade audiobooks and other audiobook folders together in one place.
I’m running it as a
Flatpak on
Ubuntu 26.04 with KDE X11, and it’s feeling a lot closer to how I wanted the app to behave from the start.
Still more I want to improve, but this was a huge step forward.


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