🎧 I'm trying to figure out the least annoying way to load an **audiobook** onto my phone so I can listen to @pluralistic's
Enshittification audiobook as one does on a Saturday morning.
📚 I'm on a Mac, and I thought that was the Books app, but it's not showing up on my iPhone. Excellent start and an example of enshittification.
@webology @pluralistic Probably not the easiest way to do it if you just want one audiobook, but I put audiobooks on my phone by turning them into podcasts: https://github.com/pganssle/audio-feeder/
Here is a docker-compose configuration: https://github.com/pganssle/audio_feeder_docker
@webology @pluralistic There are some complications if you just serve it locally like I do, particularly with iPhones, because almost all iOS podcast players are apparently awful, and everything except Apple podcasts apparently needs to serve the audio from their own servers for some reason or something like that, but if you make it Internet-facing you won’t have any problems I think.
@pganssle Thank you for sharing. That's quite a nice hack.
I used to upload books to the Overcast app back when they supported it. The nixed that feature a year or so ago though.