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Experience score33.3/1007 comments
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What people think

Across 7 comments in the past 7 days, the overall experience leans negative. Criticism concentrates on results & quality (3 of 6 negative excerpts). One user is very satisfied with NotebookLM's results. One user says they are unable to upload an mp3 file successfully.

User feedback

8 review excerpts

NegativeReliability

I’ve been trying upload and audio file in various ways, in various formats, from various computers, and I’m getting the same “error uploading source. Try again!” message. I wondered if I had reached some limit that it wasn’t telling me, but I guess there’s a wider issue.

MixedWorkflow & integrations

Linked git repo is greate but not a substitute for real REST API as provided in the article.

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Comment being replied to ↗

If you really want to use something like this, please consider the free and open source MCP server option: https://github.com/jacob-bd/gemini-notebook-mcp-cli

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How to Automate NotebookLM with the Gemini Notebook API: Deep Research, Chat, Audio Overviews and a Lot More

NegativeResults & quality

This probably hurts notebooklm more than regular TTS since people are listening to fairly dense material and you notice unnatural delivery a lot more when you're trying to concentrate

NegativeResults & quality

It really sucks that Google just pulled the rug out from under its regular users who have relied on their product, and did a huge downgrade to NotebookLM by replacing the voices, instead of upgrading the voices.