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Try the demo

The public demo​

To try AudioSilo before you install it, visit demo.audiosilo.app. There's nothing to sign up for: a throwaway account is made for you, and you land in the web player with a library of public-domain audiobooks.

The demo landing page: a fresh account, a QR code to continue on your phone, and a button to browse in the browser

To try the iOS and Android apps too, scan the QR code with the app. Your phone joins as the same demo user, so you can watch your place sync between the browser and the app.

What a demo account is​

Everything is the real player: browsing, search, playback, bookmarks and favourites. But demo accounts are disposable:

  • You can't set a password, so a demo account can't become a permanent login.
  • An account is deleted after 24 hours without use, with everything it saved.
  • The demo has a cap on live accounts. If it says it's at capacity, try again later.

Run your own demo​

Any AudioSilo server can run a demo, for example for friends to try. Demo visitors get full access to one library, so point it at public-domain audiobooks, not your own collection.

In the admin console, use Server > Settings > Demo mode. Or in config.yaml:

demo:
  enabled: true
  library: "Demo Library"   # the name of one of your libraries
  # max_users: 200          # cap on live demo accounts (default 200; 0 = unlimited)
  idle_ttl: "24h"           # delete demo accounts idle longer than this

The same settings exist as AUDIOSILO_DEMO_ENABLED, AUDIOSILO_DEMO_LIBRARY, AUDIOSILO_DEMO_MAX_USERS and AUDIOSILO_DEMO_IDLE_TTL. Turning demo mode on or off, and the idle time, apply at the next restart.

With demo mode on, the server's front page takes visitors straight to the demo.

Fill a demo library​

The server repository includes a script that downloads free LibriVox recordings from the Internet Archive, already in Author/Title/ folders with covers:

scripts/seed-librivox.sh /path/to/demo-library

It needs bash, curl and python3. DRY_RUN=1 shows what it would download. Then add a library for the folder and set it as the demo library.