You own the files
Your books live on your server. Nobody can relabel what you bought as a rental and delete it.
A PeculiarHabit product
Fireside
A self-hosted audiobook library. Your books, your files, your server, synced across every device, with zero telemetry.
The player
Browse your library, drill into a series, and play with proper chapter control.
Why Fireside
Built for people who bought their audiobooks and want to keep them.
Listen anywhere, in sync
Open your URL on any device. Move from the home PC to your phone to the work workstation and pick up exactly where you left off.
Fix the audio yourself
Got a book with poor normalization? Repair the audio on your own server. That is not even an option on the big platforms.
Sleep mode that fades
Set how long it keeps reading. As the timer runs out the volume eases down gradually instead of cutting off mid-sentence.
Prefetch for dead zones
Buffers 45 minutes of audio ahead by default (configurable), so a temporary dead zone on a long drive will not interrupt the book.
Zero telemetry
No tracking, no analytics, no phoning home. If you want to check for an update, you do it yourself, on purpose.
You approve every account
Any account on your instance must be approved by you through the admin panel. Nobody gets in by signing up.
Two ways to run it
Take the raw PHP (it stores everything in JSON, no database required, edit it however you like) or install the self-contained Windows service.
Ready to own your library?
Grab Fireside, or read how it fits together first.