# Booksonic Air

Booksonic Air is a self-hosted audiobook streaming application for managing and playing your personal audiobook library, giving homelab users a private Audible-like experience. It is open source and self-hosted, installable on Docker Hub and ZimaOS.

Canonical page: https://ourlocalhost.com/app/3925/booksonic-air

## Description

Booksonic Air is a self-hosted audiobook streaming application for managing and playing your personal audiobook library, giving homelab users a private Audible-like experience.

## Platform availability

Available on 1 of 6 install platforms: ZimaOS.

## Health score

12/100 (Low), based on 2 of 4 factors.
- Maintained: 0 (GitHub repository no longer exists)
- Easy to install: 35 (1 install platform, install notes, Docker image)

## Links

- Docker Hub: https://hub.docker.com/r/linuxserver/booksonic-air
- ZimaOS: https://github.com/bigbeartechworld/big-bear-casaos/tree/master/Apps/booksonic-air

## Common questions

### How can I confirm Docker is working before troubleshooting Booksonic Air startup?

Run docker run hello-world first. If that simple test fails, the Booksonic Air container will not start correctly either.

### How do I prevent permission errors when using shared audiobook folders?

Set PUID and PGID to match your host user and group IDs. This lets the container access shared files without permission problems.

### Which Booksonic Air folder should I back up?

Map a host folder to /config and keep a backup of it. That folder holds settings, and losing it can break first-run setup.

### Is there an Android app for Booksonic?

The project includes Booksonic App, an Android app for connecting to Booksonic servers. It is based on DSub.

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