Browsing your library
Once you're connected, AudioSilo gives you a few ways to find something to listen to: the home screen's shelves, browsing a library folder by folder, searching, and your own favourites.
The home screen
The home screen is built around what you are doing, not just what's on the server:
- Continue listening - every book you've started, most recent first, each showing how much is left. Tap one to pick up exactly where you stopped. The card's menu also lets you Mark as Finished or jump to More in series (the book's folder).
- Favourites - the books you've marked with a heart. Only appears once you have some.
- Recently added - the newest books on your server, with a View more link to a fuller list.
- Recently finished - books you've completed, also with a View more link.
View more opens a browse page where you can flip between Recently added and Recently finished and see far more than the home shelves show.
If you're connected to more than one server, the home screen, search, and favourites combine all of them - a book can even note that it's "Also on…" another server or "Also in…" another library.
Libraries and folder browsing
The Library tab lists your libraries - the collections your admin has shared with you - plus a Favourites row at the top. If you're connected to several servers, libraries are grouped under each server's name.
Opening a library shows its contents as folders and books, mirroring exactly how the audiobooks are organized on the server (typically author folders containing book folders):
- Pink folder rows open a folder; blue book rows open a book. Book rows show the duration and bitrate.
- Breadcrumbs at the top show where you are and jump back up any level.
- Big folders (more than a couple dozen entries) get a filter box ("Filter this folder…") and an A–Z rail on the right edge for jumping straight to a letter - a library with thousands of authors stays quick to navigate.
- Your scroll position is remembered, so backing out of a book returns you to where you were.
What you see here is what your account has been granted - see Sharing if some of the server's content isn't visible to you.
Book details
Tap a book to open its detail page:
- Cover, title, and author, plus the series and number (e.g. "Stormlight Archive #2") and the narrator when known.
- A stats strip: a heart to favourite the book, its download size and audio format, and its total length.
- A Listen button to start (or resume) playing, and a download button for offline listening.
- The Chapters list (or Files, for books without chapter info) with each part's duration - tap any chapter to start playing from there. Green dots on the rows show the book is downloaded to this device.
- Your Bookmarks, History (past listening sessions), and Notes for this book. Notes support markdown formatting.
If the same book exists in more than one place (say, an M4B copy and an MP3 copy), the detail page offers Choose a version so you can pick which copy to play.
Search
The Search tab (or the search box in the desktop header) searches titles, authors, and series across every library you have access to - and across every server you've added:
Results appear as you type. Tap a result to open the book's detail page.
Search looks at book metadata (title, author, series). To hunt by folder name inside one folder, use the browse view's filter box instead.
Favourites
Favourites are your personal shelf - mark anything you want to find again quickly:
- Tap the heart on a book's detail page, or the heart on any row while browsing. You can favourite whole folders as well as books (handy for a series or an author).
- Find them again on the Favourites shelf on Home, or via the Favourites row at the top of the Library tab, which opens the full list.
- Tap the heart again to remove a favourite.
Favourites are tied to your account, so they follow you across all your devices.