Audnexus.bundle VS Audiobooks.bundle

https://github.com/djdembeck/Audnexus.bundle gets you meta-data updating.

Also I noticed Audiobook.bundle is no longer being actively worked on and has been moved to a different project, Audnexus. If you want to try it, I would use Audnexus because it has a release in March.

If you don't know about Plex, it's a service where you set up your own media server. It's not designed with Audiobooks in mind but I created a Music Library and only put Audiobooks in it. Plex is great and for regular media it will scan all your files and organize it and all the the details, summaries, catalogue and everything as if it were a regular streaming services; but since it's not designed for audiobooks you need to add an audiobook source for it to pull details from. I added Audnexus as my source, it works great.

Third-party metadata agents/scanners still work (e.g. Audnexus is a popular one for getting better audiobook metadata), but there are very few others that do. Ones that relied on their own UI (e.g. anything that integrated with services like Spotify, YouTube, etc) don't work anymore, and haven't for 4+ years. You'll see their entry in the Plugins menu in your server settings, but you can't do anything beyond that because the UI it relied on was removed.

Yes, it's fairly common. In lieu of "official" support, the third-party agent Audnexus can help with organizing things, pulling from online databases that the regular Plex Music agent doesn't (e.g. Audible), and setting tags that can help with navigation (e.g. setting the Style to the narrator, so you can filter to specific narrators).

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