AudiobookDB closed alpha testing #689
Description
After tremendous work, a few hurdles, and life, AudiobookDB is now ready for alpha testing of the front end and API.
AudiobookDB takes inspiration from similar projects, such as TheMovieDB and Musicbrainz, to build a user-contributed metadata database just for audiobooks. There are no current good projects for audiobook metadata. The closest you might find is Bookbrainz (which is missing a lot of specific fields to audiobooks), Goodreads (which closed its API and isn't audiobook specific), Storygraph (which has said they will have an API but also isn't truly open to non-moderators).
Audnexus is significant, but because of its design in a NoSQL database, it can't adequately form the type of strong data relationships needed. And it's only source of truth is Audible, which is imperfect and lacking lately. As such, my focus has switched from Audnexus. I have thoughts on switching Audnexus to more of a seeder proxy in the future for multiple platforms.
The closed alpha currently lacks some features necessary for wider use, such as user accounts and edit history, but is largely feature-complete for the moment. If this sounds like a project you would like to experiment with and help shape, please get in touch with me via the email on my profile.