You can try installing audiobookshelf as an audiobook server. You can do lookups from audible there and automatically set chapters.
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+1 for Audiobookshelf, couldn't be happier, Android app and website on mobile both work great.
Ah this sounds nice. I will give it a look thanks.
This is my solution also. I listen to audio books on my way to work, and read on an ebook-reader in the evening. Can be tricky to sync when the chapter structure is non-traditional though (e.g. Discworld).
This sounds better than audiobookshelf for what OP is asking
This sounds really nice will give this a try for sure.
Calibre has content server functionality which you can use extensively to symc books but idk, I heard that calibre has a lot of vulnerabilities
I use Bound for iOS
Those big files like .m4b (b stands for book) should have chapters within it, if you open them with mpv on your pc you should be able to see them on the time bar. On Android I've been using Voice, it's really well polished and shows a big chapter name so I usually remember where I was if I switch devices, even if not to the exact minute.
I figured out how to encode to a single m4b in fre:ac so I only use Voice now (or my ipod, which was the reason why I learned how to use fre:ac).
I know you asked for syncing (one day I'll try adding the audiobook plugin to my jellyfin), but this works for me.
If you prefer a folder of files, you can use fre:ac or many other encoders/tools to split them up.
For my current book there is about no metadata in the files that was first thing I checked.
Oh sorry, can't think of an easy solution then. I've seen that audiobookshelf can find metadata for you, that could be doable. They also support ebooks but if I understood correctly from their docs they don't get synced to the audio position, just to themselves.
A promising but still in beta software is Storyteller, under very active development here. It works by creating a 'rich' epub that contains the audio synced line by line, which you can then read/listen to with just one app.
There's also older software with a similar approach like syncabook but at a glance it seems less usable than Storyteller.