dankserver/audiobookshelf/quadlet/audiobookshelf.container

@@ -0,0 +1,59 @@
+# Quadlet unit: Audiobookshelf audiobook server (rootless, boot-persistent).
+#
+# Install path on dankserver: ~/.config/containers/systemd/audiobookshelf.container
+# Unit name: audiobookshelf.service (podman 5.x drops the container- prefix)
+#
+# Everything this server writes is its own state — the SQLite library, accounts,
+# playback progress, cached covers — and it lives under
+# /home/dank/Containers/audiobookshelf on the NVMe, so no metadata byte ever
+# lands on the spindle. The audio itself is bound READ-ONLY off the array: the
+# only sanctioned write path into /mnt/entropy is the overlay view
+# (scripts/media-view.sh), Audiobookshelf has no need of it, and a read-only bind
+# makes a stray sidecar write structurally impossible rather than discouraged.
+#
+# The digest is the linux/amd64 manifest of the tag, which is what podman
+# verifies and what RepoDigests records on this single-arch host. Pinning the
+# manifest-list digest instead would let a re-pull resolve to a different image.
+# The upstream version tags stop at 2.19.0 (built 2025-02-02) while `latest` is
+# newer by a year and a half, so `latest@digest` is the only pin that names the
+# build actually running — same reasoning as the jellyfin and romm units.
+
+[Unit]
+Description=Audiobookshelf audiobook server container
+After=network.target
+
+[Container]
+ContainerName=audiobookshelf
+Image=ghcr.io/advplyr/audiobookshelf:latest@sha256:37c2057e150694970442579815c646fe6bdc01c95b9d1547c4c9068be8844ef3
+Network=pasta
+Environment=ABS_CONFIG_DIR=/config
+Environment=ABS_METADATA_DIR=/metadata
+Environment=ABS_PGID=1000
+Environment=ABS_PORT=8000
+Environment=ABS_PUID=1000
+Environment=TZ=America/Vancouver
+PublishPort=8000:8000
+Volume=/home/dank/Containers/audiobookshelf/config:/config
+Volume=/home/dank/Containers/audiobookshelf/metadata:/metadata
+Volume=/mnt/entropy/Audiobooks:/audiobooks:ro
+# The image is Alpine: it ships wget and no curl, so the health check must name
+# the binary that exists or the container is unhealthy while serving perfectly.
+HealthCmd=wget -q -O /dev/null http://127.0.0.1:8000/healthcheck
+HealthInterval=30s
+HealthTimeout=10s
+HealthRetries=3
+
+[Service]
+# Refuse to start until the array is a real mount — with the bind source missing,
+# podman invents an empty directory and Audiobookshelf records an empty library as
+# truth. See the header of scripts/wait-for-mount.sh for the blind-boot incident.
+ExecStartPre=/home/dank/serverAppConfigs/scripts/wait-for-mount.sh /mnt/entropy
+Restart=always
+RestartSec=5
+# The first boot scans the whole audiobook tree. Weighted LOW (default 100) so a
+# scan loses to playback when the array is contended. Proportional share, not a
+# cap: inert while the disk is idle.
+IOWeight=10
+
+[Install]
+WantedBy=default.target

scripts/deploy-plan.py

@@ -60,6 +60,7 @@ SERVICE_ORDER = (
     "calibre-server",
     "plex",
     "tautulli",
+    "audiobookshelf",
     "prowlarr",
     "qbittorrent",
     "radarr",
@@ -123,6 +124,7 @@ DANKSERVER_SERVICES = {
     "calibre-server",
     "plex",
     "tautulli",
+    "audiobookshelf",
     "prowlarr",
     "qbittorrent",
     "radarr",
@@ -420,6 +422,7 @@ def services_for_path(path: str, target: str) -> set[str]:
                 "copyparty": {"copyparty"},
                 "plex": {"plex"},
                 "tautulli": {"tautulli"},
+                "audiobookshelf": {"audiobookshelf"},
             }
             _add(services, *quadlet_services.get(parts[1], set()))
         if len(parts) >= 2 and parts[1] == "host":

scripts/deploy-remote.sh

@@ -95,6 +95,7 @@ service_is_allowed() {
         dankclaw:frank-tts-engine|dankclaw:frank-tts|\
         dankserver:romm-mariadb|dankserver:romm-redis|dankserver:romm|\
         dankserver:copyparty|dankserver:jellyfin|dankserver:calibre-web|dankserver:calibre-server|dankserver:plex|dankserver:tautulli|\
+        dankserver:audiobookshelf|\
         dankserver:prowlarr|dankserver:qbittorrent|dankserver:radarr|\
         dankserver:sonarr|dankserver:lidarr|dankserver:readarr|\
         dankserver:frank-archon|dankserver:node-exporter|dankserver:cadvisor|dankserver:gpu-exporter|\
@@ -1300,6 +1301,25 @@ deploy_calibre_web() {
     systemctl --user restart calibre-web.service
 }
 
+# Audiobookshelf keeps its whole state (SQLite library, accounts, progress,
+# cached covers) on the NVMe under /home/dank/Containers/audiobookshelf; the
+# audio is a read-only bind off the array, so the only thing the deployer has to
+# create is the two state roots. mkdir names the owner — letting podman invent
+# the directories leaves the SQLite file unwritable by the container user on a
+# rootless first boot. No `systemctl --user enable`: a generated Quadlet unit
+# cannot be enabled, and WantedBy=default.target is what carries it across a
+# reboot.
+deploy_audiobookshelf() {
+    cp "dankserver/audiobookshelf/quadlet/audiobookshelf.container" "$quadlet_unit_dir/"
+    systemctl --user daemon-reload
+    mkdir -p /home/dank/Containers/audiobookshelf/config \
+             /home/dank/Containers/audiobookshelf/metadata
+    systemctl --user restart audiobookshelf.service
+    # /healthcheck answers once the HTTP server is bound; the library scan that
+    # follows runs in the background and must not gate the deploy.
+    wait_for_health audiobookshelf http://127.0.0.1:8000/healthcheck 90
+}
+
 # The content server's single admin account and the desktop's basic-auth
 # credential (same pair) are bootstrapped exactly once: the env file is the
 # plaintext store (mode 600), the userdb's pw column is plaintext too, so
@@ -2176,6 +2196,7 @@ deploy_service() {
         copyparty) deploy_copyparty ;;
         plex) deploy_plex ;;
         tautulli) deploy_tautulli ;;
+        audiobookshelf) deploy_audiobookshelf ;;
         alloy) deploy_alloy ;;
         prometheus|grafana|loki|node-exporter|cadvisor|alertmanager|blackbox-exporter) deploy_observability "$service" ;;
         gpu-exporter) deploy_gpu_exporter ;;

scripts/deploy.sh

@@ -148,6 +148,7 @@ valid_service() {
         dankclaw:frank-dragoon|dankclaw:frank-zealot|\
         dankserver:romm-mariadb|dankserver:romm-redis|dankserver:romm|\
         dankserver:copyparty|dankserver:jellyfin|dankserver:calibre-web|dankserver:calibre-server|dankserver:plex|dankserver:tautulli|\
+        dankserver:audiobookshelf|\
         dankserver:qbittorrent|dankserver:radarr|dankserver:sonarr|\
         dankserver:lidarr|dankserver:readarr|dankserver:node-exporter|dankserver:cadvisor|dankserver:gpu-exporter|\
         dankserver:prowlarr|dankserver:frank-archon|\

scripts/test-changed.sh

@@ -334,7 +334,7 @@ for path in "${CHANGED[@]}"; do
         # Cutover-era dankserver quadlet units (romm trio, jellyfin, calibre-web,
         # copyparty, plex, tautulli): the seam checks boot-persistence +
         # v1-generator contract; deploy-flow seams guard the deployer routing.
-        dankserver/romm/*|dankserver/jellyfin/*|dankserver/calibre-web/*|dankserver/copyparty/*|dankserver/plex/*|dankserver/tautulli/*)
+        dankserver/romm/*|dankserver/jellyfin/*|dankserver/calibre-web/*|dankserver/copyparty/*|dankserver/plex/*|dankserver/tautulli/*|dankserver/audiobookshelf/*)
             add_test tests/dankserver_quadlet.bats
             add_test tests/deployment_flow.bats
             add_test tests/deployment_scoping.bats

serverAppConfigs-docs/Dankserver/Audiobookshelf.md

@@ -0,0 +1,95 @@
+---
+type: reference
+description: "Audiobookshelf on Dankserver: quadlet shape, the read-only array bind, state on the SSD, first-run account, laws."
+tags:
+  - dankserver
+  - audiobooks
+  - quadlet
+timestamp: 2026-11-02
+---
+
+# Audiobookshelf
+
+Audiobookshelf (ABS) serves the [[Entropy Volume]] audiobook library to browsers
+and phones: it scans `/mnt/entropy/Audiobooks`, keeps its own SQLite library with
+per-listener playback positions, and streams the audio. It is **not** a media
+server — it shares nothing with [[Plex]] or [[Jellyfin]] and owns no files on the
+array.
+
+**Host:** Dankserver — **Unit:** `audiobookshelf.service` (rootless Quadlet, user
+manager) — **Internal-only:** LAN address, no vhost, no DNS name.
+
+## Shape
+
+| Item | Value |
+|------|-------|
+| Unit file | `dankserver/audiobookshelf/quadlet/audiobookshelf.container` (the authority for every number here) |
+| Image | `ghcr.io/advplyr/audiobookshelf` pinned by **amd64 manifest digest** — see Laws |
+| Port | `PublishPort=8000:8000` — web UI and API on the same port |
+| Network | `pasta` (standalone; publishes nothing to other containers) |
+| Audio bind | `/mnt/entropy/Audiobooks:/audiobooks:ro` — read-only, by design |
+| State | `/home/dank/Containers/audiobookshelf/config` → `/config`, `…/metadata` → `/metadata` (both NVMe) |
+| Mount gate | `ExecStartPre=…/wait-for-mount.sh /mnt/entropy` |
+| Health | `wget` against `/healthcheck` inside the container, 30 s / 3 retries |
+| I/O share | `IOWeight=10` — a scan loses the array to every other tenant |
+| Self-healing | `Restart=always`, `RestartSec=5`, `WantedBy=default.target` |
+| Deploy | `./scripts/deploy.sh dankserver --service audiobookshelf` |
+| Handler | `deploy_audiobookshelf` in `scripts/deploy-remote.sh` |
+
+## First run
+
+1. Open `http://192.168.0.235:8000` **from the LAN**. ABS accepts the initial
+   account creation only from a local-network address; a remote address gets a
+   refusal, not a form.
+2. Create the owner account, then add one **Audi Book** library with folder
+   `/audiobooks`. The path is the in-container name of the read-only bind.
+3. The first scan reads the whole tree once. It runs in the background — the
+   deploy gate is already green by then, and `IOWeight=10` keeps it off the
+   critical path.
+
+Nothing in this repo holds an ABS credential: the account is created in the
+browser and lives in the `config` bind on the SSD.
+
+## Laws
+
+- **The audio bind stays `:ro`.** ABS writes nothing that belongs beside the
+  audio: its library, covers, progress and sidecar metadata all land in
+  `/metadata` on the SSD. A writable bind would put stray writes on the spindle
+  and hand the array to a service with no reason to hold it. If per-book
+  `.opf`/`.nfo` sidecars on disk are ever wanted, the rollback is one line —
+  point the audio bind at the [[Media Metadata View]] the media servers already
+  use — but that view's upper layer exists for those two servers' sidecars, so a
+  third writer needs a reason first ([[Media Metadata View]]).
+- **Do not bind the raw array without the mount gate.** In a rootless unit
+  `ConditionPathIsMountPoint=` is fail-*dead* and `RequiresMountsFor=` is inert,
+  so a missing array does not stop the start: podman invents an empty directory,
+  ABS indexes it, and an empty library becomes recorded truth. `wait-for-mount.sh`
+  is the only gate that works here — same law the media servers obey
+  ([[Quadlet Lifecycle]]).
+- **The `HealthCmd` must use `wget`.** The image is Alpine and ships `wget`, not
+  `curl`; a `curl` health command reads a perfectly healthy server as unhealthy
+  and `Restart=always` turns that into a loop.
+- **The image pin is the amd64 manifest digest, not the index digest.**
+  `podman inspect` reports the platform manifest (`RepoDigests[0]`) for what was
+  pulled, which differs from the manifest-list digest `latest` points at. Pin the
+  one this host runs. `latest` is newer than the newest version tag: upstream
+  stopped publishing version tags after `2.19.0` while `latest` kept moving, so
+  "highest version tag" is stale here — read the index, don't guess from tags.
+- **`IOWeight=10` is inert without the host drop-ins.** `dankserver/host/systemd/`
+  carries `user.slice.d/io-accounting.conf` and the `user@1000` delegate, and the
+  deployer installs both; without them systemd silently drops the weight
+  ([[Quadlet Lifecycle]]).
+- **No `systemctl --user enable`.** Generated Quadlet units cannot be enabled on
+  this host; `WantedBy=default.target` in the unit file is what carries the
+  service across a reboot ([[Quadlet Lifecycle]]).
+- **LAN-only until Frank says otherwise.** `0.0.0.0:8000` with no reverse proxy
+  in front. Any public vhost requires the Anubis + Authentik chain first, and the
+  outpost proxy provider has to exist before the vhost flips (external exposure
+  policy in `AGENTS.md`).
+
+## Verification
+
+`./tests/run.sh` covers this unit through `tests/dankserver_quadlet.bats`
+(boot persistence, the SSD state roots, the `:ro` array bind, the mount gate, the
+`wget` health check) and `tests/media_overlay.bats` (only [[Plex]] and
+[[Jellyfin]] may reference the metadata view).

serverAppConfigs-docs/Dankserver/Media Audiobook Relayout.md

@@ -11,7 +11,8 @@ timestamp: 2026-10-31T00:00:00Z
 `/mnt/entropy/Audiobooks` is the one library here that [[Jellyfin]] does not read
 at all — its music scanner has no audiobook concept — while [[Plex]] indexes all
 of it as Artist → Album → Track: the album is the BOOK, that book's single artist
-is the NARRATOR, both matched out of the files' own tags. Today one book is split
+is the NARRATOR, both matched out of the files' own tags. [[Audiobookshelf]]
+streams the same tree, read-only, and owns nothing in it. Today one book is split
 across `… [Part 1]`, `… [Part 2]` folders three or four deep inside a collection
 pack, so a scan serves three quarters of a novel; `scripts/media-audiobooks.py`
 re-files the tree so the property both servers' book scanners assume is true —
@@ -36,6 +37,9 @@ python3 scripts/media-audiobooks.py --root /mnt/entropy/Audiobooks \
 #    as [[Media Relayout]] shows, on its own journal, and refresh the Plex section
 #    as in step 5 of the movie Procedure — from inside the container, never over
 #    the host port.
+#    Audiobookshelf stores absolute paths, so the same refresh has to reach its
+#    library too ([[Audiobookshelf]]) — otherwise it keeps rows for folders that
+#    no longer exist.
 scripts/media-apply.py apply --plan /tmp/ab_plan.tsv --root /mnt/entropy \
     --journal /mnt/entropy/media-relayout-audiobooks.jsonl --apply
 ```

serverAppConfigs-docs/index.md

@@ -44,6 +44,7 @@ is a locator: one row, one clause, no numbers.
 
 | Page | Owns |
 |---|---|
+| [[Audiobookshelf]] | Audiobookshelf on Dankserver: quadlet shape, the read-only array bind, state on the SSD, first-run account, laws. |
 | [[Calibre]] | Calibre is the e-book library manager that backs Calibre-Web. |
 | [[Calibre-Web]] | Calibre-Web is a web application that browses, reads, and downloads eBooks from an existing Calibre library database. |
 | [[Copyparty]] | Copyparty is a lightweight file server and media streamer that runs as a single Python binary. |

shared/homepage/img/apps/mono-ab.svg

@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+<svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" viewBox="0 0 96 96"><polygon points="48,6 86,27 86,69 48,90 10,69 10,27" fill="#1c1300" stroke="#3fc1c9" stroke-width="3"/><text x="48" y="60" font-family="monospace" font-size="30" font-weight="bold" fill="#3fc1c9" text-anchor="middle">AB</text></svg>

shared/homepage/services.json

@@ -511,6 +511,19 @@
     "showLink": true,
     "art": "/img/apps/mono-tt.svg"
   },
+  {
+    "name": "Audiobookshelf",
+    "category": "admin",
+    "section": "Media Library Apps",
+    "description": "Audiobook server for the entropy library: its own SQLite library, its own login, per-listener positions.",
+    "url": "http://192.168.0.235:8000",
+    "docs": "",
+    "probe": "192.168.0.235:8000",
+    "method": "http",
+    "wip": false,
+    "showLink": true,
+    "art": "/img/apps/mono-ab.svg"
+  },
   {
     "name": "Postgres",
     "category": "admin",

tests/dankserver_quadlet.bats

@@ -127,3 +127,51 @@ load helpers
         grep -q "dankserver/host/systemd/$f" "$REPO_ROOT/scripts/deploy-remote.sh" || return 1
     done
 }
+
+@test "audiobookshelf unit exists, is boot-persistent and self-healing" {
+    unit="$REPO_ROOT/dankserver/audiobookshelf/quadlet/audiobookshelf.container"
+    [ -f "$unit" ] || return 1
+    grep -q '^WantedBy=default.target$' "$unit" || return 1
+    grep -q '^Restart=always$' "$unit" || return 1
+    grep -q '^RestartSec=' "$unit" || return 1
+}
+
+@test "audiobookshelf keeps every byte it writes on the SSD" {
+    # The point of the unit: its library database, accounts, progress and cached
+    # covers are all server state, and server state belongs on the NVMe. A bind
+    # of /mnt/entropy that is not :ro would silently put writes on the spindle.
+    unit="$REPO_ROOT/dankserver/audiobookshelf/quadlet/audiobookshelf.container"
+    grep -q '^Volume=/home/dank/Containers/audiobookshelf/config:/config$' "$unit" || return 1
+    grep -q '^Volume=/home/dank/Containers/audiobookshelf/metadata:/metadata$' "$unit" || return 1
+    grep -q '^Volume=/mnt/entropy/Audiobooks:/audiobooks:ro$' "$unit" || return 1
+    # The overlay view is reserved for the two media servers that write sidecars
+    # (tests/media_overlay.bats pins that set); a reader must not join it.
+    ! grep -q 'media-meta/view' "$unit" || return 1
+}
+
+@test "audiobookshelf refuses to start against an unmounted array" {
+    # Without the gate podman invents an empty bind source and the first scan
+    # records an empty library as truth.
+    unit="$REPO_ROOT/dankserver/audiobookshelf/quadlet/audiobookshelf.container"
+    grep -q '^ExecStartPre=.*/wait-for-mount.sh /mnt/entropy$' "$unit" || return 1
+}
+
+@test "audiobookshelf health check names a binary its image actually ships" {
+    # The image is Alpine: wget yes, curl no. A curl HealthCmd reads the
+    # container as unhealthy while it is serving perfectly.
+    unit="$REPO_ROOT/dankserver/audiobookshelf/quadlet/audiobookshelf.container"
+    grep -q '^HealthCmd=wget ' "$unit" || return 1
+    ! grep -q '^HealthCmd=curl' "$unit" || return 1
+    grep -q '^PublishPort=8000:8000$' "$unit" || return 1
+}
+
+@test "the audiobookshelf deployer creates both state roots before it starts" {
+    body="$(sed -n '/^deploy_audiobookshelf()/,/^\}/p' "$REPO_ROOT/scripts/deploy-remote.sh")"
+    mkdir_line="$(printf '%s\n' "$body" | grep -n 'mkdir -p' | head -1 | cut -d: -f1)"
+    start_line="$(printf '%s\n' "$body" | grep -n 'systemctl --user restart' | head -1 | cut -d: -f1)"
+    [ -n "$mkdir_line" ] && [ -n "$start_line" ] || return 1
+    [ "$mkdir_line" -lt "$start_line" ] || return 1
+    printf '%s\n' "$body" | grep -q 'audiobookshelf/config' || return 1
+    printf '%s\n' "$body" | grep -q 'audiobookshelf/metadata' || return 1
+    printf '%s\n' "$body" | grep -q 'wait_for_health audiobookshelf' || return 1
+}