Introducing Ultimate Audiobooks, the one stop shop for file cleaning (lemdro.id)

submitted 3 days ago by Thoven@lemdro.id to c/opensource@lemmy.ml

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My family hosts a modest Audiobookshelf server. When we tried to move from our old Plex server to ABS it was a nightmare. Our library had been built slowly over years and file organization/metadata was a mess. It took us several tools and many hours to get everything in decent shape. I was frustrated that nobody had made a single tool to scrub and clean up an audiobook library. So, I made one!

Notable features:

Fetch new metadata interactively from Audible or Goodreads
Generate metadata files
Recursively find and process files
Combine chapter files into a single book file
Convert files to .m4b

This is my first foray into an open source project. I know it's not pretty, and many of the features on my initial wishlist never got finished. But I have the core functionality working enough for my needs, which means I've been putting a lot less time into it. I decided to just release it to the world as is. May it save you much time!

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Ultimate Audiobooks is licensed under GPL-3.0

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[-] railway692@piefed.zip 1 points 3 days ago

For me, the struggle is the opposite: chapterizing older, single file audiobooks.

[-] Bldck@beehaw.org 1 points 3 days ago

You should be able to manage that with a .cue if you’re playing from Plex or AudioBookShelf. I think Jellyfin supports them too

[-] railway692@piefed.zip 1 points 3 days ago

It's manually identifying the timestamps that's tedious.

[-] Thoven@lemdro.id 2 points 2 days ago

I've never tried it, but my father tells me that if you use ABS and include the ASIN in the metadata there's a tool (possibly built in?) that can fetch chapter timestamps