Upcoming releases: what's coming in the series you listen to

From version 2.6.0, AudioSilo keeps an eye on the series in your library. Once a day your server checks for preorders, recent releases and volumes you’re missing, and the player shows them on Home, on an Upcoming page and on each series page. You can also subscribe your calendar to the release days.

What it needs

• Server 2.6.0 or later with the community metadata lookup on. The list comes from the free, community-run catalogue at meta.audiosilo.app. No Bridge is needed.
• Check for upcoming releases on, in the console’s Server > Settings > Community metadata. It’s on by default.
• The web player your 2.6.0 server serves, or app 2.6.0 for iPhone, iPad and Android: on the App Store now, and on Android from the APK on its GitHub release until 2.6.0 reaches Google Play (see Android without Google Play). Older players carry on without it.

Only series you have at least one book of are checked, and a book you already have is never listed. Your server asks the metadata service only about series and books, never about who is listening. With a local copy of the community metadata, it answers the check itself.

Coming up in your series

Home gets a Coming up in your series shelf, after Next in your series: preorders first, then recent releases, then missing books. Each shows its cover, title, series number and a date. Your server fetches the covers, so your device never contacts the sites they come from. Tap a book to open its series, or See all for the Upcoming page.

The shelf only appears when there’s something in it.

The Upcoming page

The page lists everything in up to three groups:

• Coming soon: preorders, soonest first.
• Just released: books out in the last 90 days (an admin can change this), newest first.
• Missing from your series: a gap below your latest book (you have 3 and 5, so 4 is missing), or the next book after it.

Open it from See all on Home, the Upcoming section of the Me tab on a phone, or You in the top bar on a tablet or computer.

Each book has one date, as precise as the catalogue knows it:

Group	Example
Preorder	Out Nov 12, 2026
Recent release	Released Oct 2026
Missing book	First released 2014

A New badge marks a book your server first listed in the last seven days. With more than one server, the shelf and page combine them, and each book shows once.

Add to your calendar

The Add to your calendar card on the Upcoming page gives you a private link to subscribe to. Each book coming out shows as an all-day event on its release day. If a date slips, the event moves; a book you add to your library drops out.

1. Press Get calendar link.
2. On an iPhone, iPad or Mac, press Subscribe and confirm in Calendar. Anywhere else, press Copy link and paste it into Google Calendar, Outlook or any app that can add a calendar from a link.

With more than one server, each gets its own row and link.

Only books with a known release day go in: preorders and recent releases. Events are named like “Leviathan Falls (The Expanse #9)” and show as free time. Calendar apps re-check on their own schedule, so a new release can take a while to appear.

Cloud calendars need a public address. Google Calendar, Outlook on the web and an Apple Calendar subscription kept in iCloud fetch the link from the internet. They need a public HTTPS address with a trusted certificate (see Remote access). When your admin has set the server’s public address, the link uses it.

Treat the link like a password. Anyone with it can see your upcoming releases, though nothing else. It’s shown only on the device that made it. Reset link makes a new one and stops the old one; Turn off stops it altogether.

Dates on series pages

A series page’s ghost spines for books you don’t have now show when they’re out: Out Nov 12, 2026 instead of Not in your library, or the year a released book first came out. These dates show whenever the lookup is on, even with the daily check off.

In the admin console

On Library > Series, a gap now shows its release date (“12 Nov 2026”, “Nov 2026” or “2026”), with Preorder or New where there’s room.

The Check for upcoming releases switch sits under Look up community metadata. Under it, the console shows when the last check ran and what it found, or in red why it failed. The first check runs when you switch it on, or about an hour after the server starts.

A notification when a book comes out

Admins get a new notification, New releases in your series. When a book comes out in a series your libraries hold and your server doesn’t have it, the daily check sends one message with up to five titles. It goes to your notification channels and the console’s bell.

Each book is announced once. The first check only notes what’s already out, so you aren’t flooded.

Good to know

• Standalone books aren’t checked, nor series with none of their books on your server.
• Kids don’t see it. No shelf, page, You section or calendar link. A link made before an account became a kid’s stops working. The demo shows upcoming releases, but demo accounts can’t subscribe to a calendar.
• Dates are the catalogue’s. A book with no date has no date line. The date is the first release anywhere, so your local store may get it a little later.
• Home-only addresses and self-signed certificates work only in a calendar app that fetches the link itself, on a device that reaches and trusts your server.

More

Upcoming releases in the docs covers the shelf, page and dates with screenshots, and Add to your calendar has steps for Apple Calendar, Google Calendar and Outlook. For admins: Community metadata, Series and What to send. If your series look wrong, Fix covers and series helps first.