AudioBookConverter
Improved AudioBookConverter based on freeipodsoftware release (mp3 to m4b converter) (by yermak)
m4b-tool
m4b-tool is a command line utility to merge, split and chapterize audiobook files such as mp3, ogg, flac, m4a or m4b (by sandreas)
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| Java | PHP | |
| GNU General Public License v3.0 only | MIT License |
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AudioBookConverter
Posts with mentions or reviews of AudioBookConverter.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-06-05.
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Chapterized Audiobooks
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.
- Linux - Audiobook conversion & management
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Need advice about MP3 vs M4B and chapters
Source: https://github.com/yermak/AudioBookConverter
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New to Audiobookshelf - Organizing series with multiple subfolders
Audiobookconverter can combine multiple mp3s into a single mp4
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My audiobooks collection. I saw a similar post from another user and I thought about sharing mine.
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)
- Audiobook app
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Question on binding long audiobooks (Mac)
I also had this issue with Audiobookbinder and switched to AudiobookConverter for longer book bindings
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Advice on Complex Audiobook
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.
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Any way to organise audiobooks?
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.
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Audiobook editor for creating chapters
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.
m4b-tool
Posts with mentions or reviews of m4b-tool.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-04-26.
- Plex Music library incorrect track order
- Audiobooks and chapter selection.
- help: how to disable Shuffle for audiobooks?? I disabled everything I could find that had shuffle in it. For example this audiobook has 7 parts and rather than play 1-7 it plays in a random order every time this time starting with part 2 first.
- BATCH Merging and converting solution for 3.5 TerraByte Audiobook Library?
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Combining mp3/m4a files into one audiobook?
I’ve been using https://github.com/sandreas/m4b-tool for years to combine files into m4b, add cover and metadata. I also use iOS and prologue for listening.
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Plex needs an audio book style library
MP3Merge, m4b-tool. This one is interesting for iOS users.
- Question for bulk ripping audiobooks
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Best Windows app for combining multiple MP3s into single M4B
Look into m4btool (https://github.com/sandreas/m4b-tool). Audiobookbinder increases the m4b filesize. Followed this post for my own purposes: https://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/426094/convert-multiple-mp3-files-or-single-m4a-into-m4b-with-ffmpeg-and-afconvert
- How to merge several m4a files into a single chapterized m4b?
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Convert m4b
M4B-tool which wraps ffmpeg might be your best bet if you are planning on converting m4b’s.
What are some alternatives?
When comparing AudioBookConverter and m4b-tool you can also consider the following projects:
Plex-Audiobook-Guide - A walkthrough for optimal Audiobook experience using Plex
ffmpeg-python - Python bindings for FFmpeg - with complex filtering support
audiobookshelf - Self-hosted audiobook and podcast server
Audiobooks.bundle - Audiobook metadata agent for Plex
inAudible - inAudible installers
Jellyfin - The Free Software Media System
jid - json incremental digger
AaxAudioConverter - Convert Audible aax files to mp3 and m4a/m4b
KeenWrite - Free, open-source, cross-platform desktop Markdown text editor with live preview, string interpolation, and math.
m4b-mp3-chapters-from-cuesheets - merge audiobooks or podcasts without re-encoding (remuxing only) to single m4b with quicktime/nero chapters or mp3 with id3v2 chapters using cuesheets; also allows for renaming/editing chapters
tone - tone is a cross platform audio tagger and metadata editor to dump and modify metadata for a wide variety of formats, including mp3, m4b, flac and more. It has no dependencies and can be downloaded as single binary for Windows, macOS, Linux and other common platforms.
AudioBookConverter vs Plex-Audiobook-Guide
m4b-tool vs ffmpeg-python
AudioBookConverter vs audiobookshelf
m4b-tool vs Audiobooks.bundle
AudioBookConverter vs inAudible
m4b-tool vs Plex-Audiobook-Guide
AudioBookConverter vs Jellyfin
m4b-tool vs jid
AudioBookConverter vs AaxAudioConverter
m4b-tool vs KeenWrite
AudioBookConverter vs m4b-mp3-chapters-from-cuesheets
m4b-tool vs tone