A tour of the AudioSilo admin console

The admin console is where you run an AudioSilo server: add libraries, fix books, invite people and see how the household listens. It’s built into the server at /admin, installs like an app from the browser, and comes in light and dark. The video above tours it on a real household server in about four and a half minutes, with captions.

The overview (0:00)

The console opens on who’s listening right now, with book, chapter and progress, then totals and what needs attention. Health checks run on every scan. Press ⌘K (Ctrl+K) to search from anywhere.

Fixing a badly tagged book (0:20)

The tour’s book has swapped tags: its title says Bernard Cornwell, its author Sharpe’s Eagle, and it has no cover. Its folders say Bernard Cornwell / Richard Sharpe / Sharpe - 08 - Sharpe's Eagle.

Match looks it up in the community database, folder names and all. The right book comes first, and each edition’s length is checked against your files. You tick what to take, field by field.

The fix is stored as overrides in the server’s database. Your files aren’t touched, and a rescan won’t undo it. More: Fix wrong covers, titles and series.

The library (1:18)

What’s new, books that need attention, and filters for everything the server knows: format, codec, cover, chapters, matched or not. A library can take book details from folder names first.

Series (1:47)

Community data puts each series in order. Books you don’t have yet show as gaps.

One folder, one book (2:01)

One folder is one book unless you say otherwise. The tour splits a folder of Narnia files into seven books, and rescans remember it.

Health and Match automatically (2:13)

Health turns scan results into a to-do list. Match automatically looks up every unmatched book in the background. Nothing changes until you’ve reviewed it, and you choose what gets written: just the IDs, what’s missing, or the community’s values. Scans run in a queue, on a schedule per library, with a log for each run.

People (2:56)

Everyone on the server, what they’re in the middle of, their Year in listening and every device they’ve signed in on. Adding someone is an invite: a link, or a QR code they scan with their phone’s camera (app 2.4.0 can also scan it from its own scanner). No password needed. See How to pair your phone.

Activity (3:28)

Hours, sessions and books finished, kept on your server with no third-party analytics. Also when the household listens, which apps they use, what needed converting, and a Year in listening for the whole server.

Settings (3:54)

• Home address and public address, which the apps switch between on their own.
• Import of everyone’s listening history from Audiobookshelf.
• Scheduled database backups.
• Alerts to a webhook, ntfy or Discord.
• Live logs, and an audit log of every admin change.

Since the recording

The tour was recorded on server 2.0.

Server	What it adds	Post
2.1 and 2.2	Community chapters, books in more than one series, Clear community matches, a support card you can dismiss for good	Server 2.1 and 2.2
2.3	Household members on the People page	Server 2.3
2.4	Set up your server on first sign-in, genre and tag filters, duplicates across libraries in Health, selecting many books at once, podcast libraries	Server 2.4
2.5	Unscanned book folders listed in Folders as Not in the library yet with Rescan, Before an upgrade copies in Backups, sections open sooner on a large library	Server 2.5

Try it yourself

The public demo is a listener’s account, so it doesn’t include the admin console. To run your own, see Self-hosted audiobook server or the console tour in the docs.