AudioBookConverter VS m4b-mp3-chapters-from-cuesheets

https://github.com/yermak/AudioBookConverter Apparantly this is a good program to use. You should be able to convert them to a single m4b file and it should keep all the chapters intact.

Source: https://github.com/yermak/AudioBookConverter

Audiobookconverter can combine multiple mp3s into a single mp4

Audiobook Converter - Takes anything not an M4B and makes it an M4B (and can add some basic metadata to an M4B). For Plex, I've found it useful to have one file for playback vs. all the mp3 files (plus it's a lot cleaner)

I also had this issue with Audiobookbinder and switched to AudiobookConverter for longer book bindings

However, I only went through the trouble because I didn't want audio quality to be affected at all (nothing to be encoded again, only removed). If you are not too concerned about audio quality, there is definitely programs out there on Mac that can chapterize files. M4btool is pretty powerful and there is Audiobook converter. I've heard AudioBookBinder might work as well, though I think it is older at this point.

some audiobooks come in multiple mp3 so i merge a books tracks all into one file to save the headache of adding meta data to sometimes 100s of files for one book. I use https://github.com/yermak/AudioBookConverter to merge mp3s into m4b which I've seen being a standard for audiobook file format but mp3 will also work if you like that extension.

Yermak's AudioBookConverter is phenomenal. Development is on hiatus due to the war in Ukraine, but the most recent version is still available on Github.

Sorry, I’m not familiar with programs on Mac. I use these scripts but they are Windows only.

Prologue reads embedded chapters. If you have Windows, see here for a method to embed chapters from a cue file to mp3 or m4b.

You could also merge the chapter tracks into a single file with embedded chapters, but I think there is a chapter limit of 255 for m4b files, mp3 I’ve had issues with large chapter numbers as well but I’m unsure what the limit is. There’s a guide here on doing that https://github.com/TheMetalCenter/m4b-mp3-chapters-from-cuesheets thought it is windows only.

I use this method to change the chapters in all my audiobooks https://github.com/TheMetalCenter/m4b-mp3-chapters-from-cuesheets

I personally keep an audiobook folder on my NAS (or network drive) and manage it with MusicBee (the guide above uses mp3tag). I manually add my own metadata (guide above gives option to do manual or scrape it from audible). Then I update Plex library, which points to that directory, and adds any new books to Plex. I merge all my audio files to a single chapterized file before adding to MusicBee using https://github.com/TheMetalCenter/m4b-mp3-chapters-from-cuesheets but the guide above has an alternate way to do it.

Do you have Windows or Mac? If Windows, this is the method I use to add/edit my audiobook's chapters. It's all done from bat files with ruby and python scripts, so a little messy but it gets the job done. You'd want to do scenario 6.