Audiobookshelf

Raised as a usability problem by 5 people on Hacker News over 5 years (2022–2026), in 4 threads.

People raised many different problems with Audiobookshelf, but no single problem has yet been raised by 3 people in 3 different months and threads.

Unreviewed issues were grouped by machine: Claude Haiku labelled each comment as a usability complaint, named what it's about and summed up the problem in a line, and a small model grouped similar problems. Nobody has checked them by hand. Expect mistakes.

The newest 5 complaints

Reading progress isn't saved consistently, and page flipping UI is poor2026-08-25
Locally downloaded books crash the app, so user can only stream2025-05-09
Pressing play sometimes does nothing, so playback won't start2025-05-09
Too many clicks to reach a podcast, slow loading, and feeds don't refresh without clicking search twice2024-11-22
Scanning a 10k-audiobook collection took hours, so the user killed it2022-06-18