Guides to be added/updated

[nichwall]

This is a list of guides that I think would be useful on the ABS website. Some of these topics are things that can easily be figured out by clicking around the user interface, but new users seem to keep asking things related to this so it should be more clear in the documentation, or having questions about capabilities before installing ABS and various video reviews are out of date.

I'll try and keep this top comment up to date as other things come up on Discord or ABS versions are released, but not sure how well I'll keep each guide up to date (the guides I originally wrote are 19 patch versions behind as of writing this).

• [x] Update collections to include playlists and differentiate them
• [x] User permissions and sharing
  • Limiting user access by tags/library
  • What options are there
  • Should we have a list of things potentially on the roadmap, or just leave it off so users don't constantly ask about when something will be added?
• [x] Podcasts
  • Explicitly state that ABS is designed to download to and serve podcasts from the server. But for now the answer is "if you don't want the server downloading episodes then use a normal podcast app"
• [x] Book Multiple/sub series creation
• [ ] Encoding books into m4b, and other tools that someone can use
  • List of links to tools that can be used (ffmpeg, audiobook converter, whatever people keep recommending because I just know what I use)
• [ ] Sourcing books
  • Don't think we really need this, but maybe a link to somewhere that has a list of DRM removers.
  • Specify that ABS does not De-DRM books and has no intention of doing so
• [x] Access control
  • already discussed on the User page, but could use some more detail/expanded examples like with Subseries. Information is currently buried so unlikely to find if just browsing the guides
• [x] Update library creation guide
  • changes to library creation (for example the Audiobook only option) need to be added
• [x] Restore from backup guide

[advplyr]

These are great, we definitely need more guides. I think having a list of things on the roadmap would be helpful because we get the same requests over and over. We can also link to these guides in the FAQ

[advplyr]

I would like to add a guide for setting up Email. We often get questions about gmail so that would be good to cover there. Also this issue https://github.com/advplyr/audiobookshelf/issues/2906 highlighted that we should specify the From address can also include a display name in the form "Name \test@example.com\" instead of just "test@example.com"