Audiobooks.bundle VS Killed by Google

Starting in the past few weeks using Plex Media Server version 1.27.1.5916 (on Synology), the metadata scanner appears to get hung up (or stuck) while scanning a large (over 1,000 albums) Library of Audiobooks. The Dashboard indicates "Updating Metadata" and just sits spinning on some random album artist entry. Takes a reboot of the Plex server to stop the metadata scan. Then some time later, 12 or more hours, the scan starts again and subsequently gets randomly hung up somewhere during the scan of this Library. "Prefer local metadata" is not checked on the Library. This audiobook Library is using the macr0dev Audiobooks.bundle metadata agent (and has been for a while without issue).

I recently finally got Plex working with audiobooks in a way I'm happy with. I used this Plex Audiobooks Guide as a base and tweaked it as I went. The relatively new Audnexus metadata agent for Plex seems pretty promising but I still use a modified version of the Audiobooks.bundle. It still involves some manual customization as the agents can't directly add albums to collections and I like to organize the series' I have by collection, but overall it does a lot of the work for you.

I followed this guide for audiobooks using this agent.

hereyou go :)

Having it built in natively would be awesome, but you can do it using https://github.com/macr0dev/Audiobooks.bundle

from the GIthub page https://github.com/macr0dev/Audiobooks.bundle

I have found a third-party Agent on GITHUB https://github.com/macr0dev/Audiobooks.bundle which I have downloaded and added to the Plugs folder %LOCALAPPDATA%\Plex Media Server\Plug-ins but whenever I restart my server I don't see this as an option to choose?

Plex doesn't actually support Audiobooks so that's likely the main reason. This is the agent I'm Using https://github.com/macr0dev/Audiobooks.bundle/archive/master.zip

I was already starting to feel a little cornered in the whole Google ecosystem and a bit limited with stuff like backups, vendor lock in, etc. (and you always have the obvious hanging over your head) and ultimately, I think I just find the mental model of a SQL database more intuitive compared to a NoSQL database. So I thought to myself; "the longer I leave it, the harder it'll be to make the switch".

https://killedbygoogle.com/

Their reputation is deserved. Google domains was killed only last year!

And this isn't even the first time I've been burned by Google's decisions. If you're familiar at all with the Google Graveyard, you'll know that Google has a long history of killing off products and services that people have come to rely on. This has happened to me a number of times, in both a personal and professional capacity, and frankly it's getting old.

Just because Google has a couple of decent services that you're willing to pay for doesn't detract from the fact that most of their products have a worse life expectancy than a victorian child in the 1800s. https://killedbygoogle.com

They ruined every single opportunity to be more than an advertising company since Orkut. With scrapped attempts, starts and lack of intention for most of the 2010s to even during the early half of the Pixel Era, they seemingly haven't learnt to stick to something and iterate on it well.

And the fact that over 50% of their revenues come from search and by extension, advertising.

The fact' that til this day, they still haven't evolved from the "throwing shit at the wall then at the fan" strat which explains how they have fumbled so much so quickly.

Yeah. The Google Graveyard really shows how far this can go.

https://killedbygoogle.com

The punchline is that in addition to hundreds of failed hobby projects, their stock is doing great. Monopoly power is a helluva drug.

To me Gemini is just sort of generic and uninteresting. There has to be hundreds or thousands of products and companies based on the name "Gemini" - "Bard" was at least interesting, different and distinct.

I've no idea about the quality of the product itself, I have never had a reason to use it. It's long past cliché now but I wouldn't get too attached to a Google product that is definitely costing a lot of money but which has no clear pathway to turning a profit. I think they will keep it ticking over until the hype train moves on from Chatbots/LLMs, and then it'll join the Google Graveyard @ https://killedbygoogle.com

We're not talking about reliability, we're talking about Google's penchant for killing established products that people use. https://killedbygoogle.com