Coming from Readarr or Sonarr

If you have run Sonarr, Radarr or Readarr, most of ABM is where you expect it.

The same

Wanted (Missing, Cutoff Unmet), Activity (Queue, History, Blocklist), Calendar with an iCal feed, indexers with RSS, automatic and interactive search, quality profiles with a cutoff and upgrades, delay and release profiles, tags, Connect, remote path mappings, a recycle bin, backups, Tasks and Status.

Different

In the arrs	In ABM
Resolution-based qualities	A ladder of audio formats, single or multi-file
Custom formats	Release profiles with Must Contain, Must Not Contain, Preferred
An item is an episode, movie or book	A book, with series and position tracked as catalogs
Metadata from their own service	Libex, with covers lockable, sidecars and tags written
One download folder	Same, plus Library Import for existing collections
No media conversion	A conversion queue: convert, merge, split, chapters
Naming formats	ABM chooses folder names. Rename Files is on lists
Import lists of many kinds	MAM and RSS

Not in ABM

Flood is not a client. There are no custom formats. Readarr’s book support is not part of this. ABM is audiobooks only.

Moving over

There is no Readarr importer. Point ABM at your existing audiobook folder with Library Import and see Moving a library in.