Getting your books into Fireside

Fireside plays your files. Here is how you get them there, start to finish.

  1. 1

    Buy your books legally on Audible

    This is your library. Everything here assumes the audiobooks are yours, bought and paid for.

  2. 2

    Pull your library down with Libation

    Libation is a free, open-source tool that downloads your Audible library to your own machine.

    getlibation.com
  3. 3

    Export to MP3, split by chapter

    Have Libation dump each book to MP3 files, one file per chapter. That is the format and layout Fireside expects.

  4. 4

    Arrange the folders correctly

    Fireside reads three folder levels. Series and author on the outside, then the book, then one MP3 per chapter:

    <Series - Author>/
  <Order - Title - Year>/
    <Order - Chapter Title>.mp3

    For a standalone book with no series, use just the author name as the top folder.

    This is your chance to fix the audio. They are your files now, so do anything Audible never let you. Run them through ffmpeg loudnorm to tame the loud-soft swings, normalize levels across a whole series, cut out advertisements and credits you do not want, or repair a badly mastered chapter. Do it once, and it stays fixed forever.
  5. 5

    Scan from the admin panel

    Open the Fireside admin panel and start a scan each time you add new files. The Windows service version watches your folder and scans automatically, so you get that for free.

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