Your cast, in Audiobookshelf

If you self-host your audiobooks, you probably run Audiobookshelf — an open-source library server with its own iOS, Android and web players, keeping your place across every device. It pairs naturally with Castwright: both run on hardware you own, and nothing you make has to touch a cloud.

As of v1.10.0, sending a finished book from Castwright to Audiobookshelf is a first-class path, not a manual file shuffle.

The direct send. From the Listen view, send a finished book straight to Audiobookshelf. Its series, cover and metadata travel with it, so the book lands on your shelf already filed — in the right series, with its art, nothing to tidy up afterwards. You choose the shape that suits your library: a single chaptered file, or a folder of per-chapter tracks.

An export you don’t have to watch. Kick it off and walk away. A small indicator in the top bar tells you when it’s done — or if something needed your attention — no matter which screen you’ve wandered off to. No progress bar to babysit.

Prefer to do it by hand? That still works. Audiobookshelf treats each subfolder of its library root as one book, so exporting per-chapter MP3s into a folder under that root gets you there too — the book appears after the server’s next scan. The direct send just saves you the steps.

Either way, the finished audio is yours — ordinary files on your own server, playable in any client Audiobookshelf speaks to.

For the other players we test against, see Where to listen.

Many voices, one machine.