I’ve been trying different audiobook server software lately, because my regular media server setup doesn’t remember what track/chapter I’m on. So many people on the web mention Booksonic or Subsonic or Emby, but all of those have their own failings and I haven’t found a good substitute yet.

For instance, in Booksonic/Subsonic I can’t get it to easily tell what local album art I want it to use, I can’t disable swipe gestures on mobile, and I can’t rename book albums with custom titles or make it use metadata instead of folder names.

I just want to listen to Ender’s Game; have it say “Ender’s Game” and not “Ender 1 - Ender’s Game”; use this local art file and not that one; add the whole book to the queue when I select a single track; and remember what track I last listened to. But apparently I can’t have all of that.