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!
Ultimate Audiobooks is licensed under GPL-3.0
You should be able to manage that with a
.cueif you’re playing from Plex or AudioBookShelf. I think Jellyfin supports them tooIt’s manually identifying the timestamps that’s tedious.
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
That would be useful. I’ll look for it.
Yeah I’ve done it a handful of times. Not fun for longer books.
I found a few resources online that are repos of cue markers.
Might also be a good task for an LLM