bragibooks VS m4b-mp3-chapters-from-cuesheets

I’ve been using this: https://github.com/djdembeck/bragibooks

I use bragibooks for MP3 -> M4B conversion despite the interface leaving a lot to be desired. Though seanap's guide works too. It's just a bit more manual.

I got the Audnexus Metadata Agent installed on Plex, but have tried and failed so many times to follow seanap's guide, bragibooks, and the Audnexus guide for properly tagging my audiobooks. I have mostly .m4bs with clean titles and album art to begin with.

Learned about https://github.com/djdembeck/bragibooks today and I personally use https://github.com/seanap/Auto-M4B-Tool

you can also check bragibooks out. https://github.com/djdembeck/bragibooks. it merges all your multiple mp3 audiobooks into one m4b file and it also tags all your files, with author, book name and even chapters. it uses audnexus to scrape all metadata. It's really cool. it me up if you need some help setting it up.

If you need help chaptalizing shit you can use Bragibooks.

To add to this, BragiBooks is awesome for converting mp3's to a chapterized m4b and tagging the books and moving to the right folder structure.

I wrote a Python web-frontend to run on media servers to handle converting/sorting my audiobooks, with no manual data entry (after entering Audible ID). I found it preferable to using tagger apps and mixed file formats: https://github.com/djdembeck/bragibooks

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.