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)
Audiobooks.bundle
Audiobook metadata agent for Plex (by seanap)
| m4b-tool | Audiobooks.bundle | |
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| 34 | 16 | |
| 1,082 | 129 | |
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| 6.8 | 0.0 | |
| 3 months ago | almost 2 years ago | |
| PHP | Python | |
| MIT License | - |
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m4b-tool
Posts with mentions or reviews of m4b-tool.
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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.
Audiobooks.bundle
Posts with mentions or reviews of Audiobooks.bundle.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
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Martha Wells, A.G. Riddle, and More Audiobooks from Recorded Books
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.
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I don't want streaming music, I just want to stream my music
I just set up Plex with the Audnexus agent (https://github.com/seanap/Audiobooks.bundle), using the Prologue app (https://prologue.audio/) to listen on my phone. It was a little bit of a fiddle to set up, but it's worked wonderfully.
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Plex needs an audio book style library
I used this one: https://github.com/seanap/Audiobooks.bundle
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My audiobooks collection. I saw a similar post from another user and I thought about sharing mine.
You certainly have to massage it to make it work but with a plug-in or two (Seanad guide)and apps like prologue you certainly can get a good and complete experience.
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Any way to deal with audiobooks with bad filenames/metadata?
Mp3Tag can be used to bulk edit local metadata if that's what's causing issues. This guide that targeted Audnexus's predecessor is also still relevant if you want to automate some of the process.
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New tentative user with a few questions
I currently have my large collection of audiobooks indexed in Plex as a music library using the Audiobooks.bundle scanner/agent - I setup AudiobookShelf on a VM to play around with it and have so far been very pleasantly surprised by the feature set.
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Is there any planned support for audiobooks?
I can't help with the Jellyfin side of things, but I have had great success with this methodology via Plex (even in the free version) using the iOS app Prologue
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Audiobook Scan Agent
There is no built-in Plex audiobook agent. Do you have (old) Audiobooks.bundle agent installed?
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Synology NAS Audiobook Agent
The latest plex update broke metadata agents. For now you can roll back to 1.24.2. Plex will be release a fix in an upcoming beta release https://github.com/seanap/Audiobooks.bundle/issues/36
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New BETA PMS Version Available - 1.24.3.5033-757abe6b4
Sounds more like an issue with the agent. The fork here allows you to disable downloading artwork https://github.com/seanap/Audiobooks.bundle
What are some alternatives?
When comparing m4b-tool and Audiobooks.bundle you can also consider the following projects:
ffmpeg-python - Python bindings for FFmpeg - with complex filtering support
Plex-Audiobook-Guide - A walkthrough for optimal Audiobook experience using Plex
AudioBookConverter - Improved AudioBookConverter based on freeipodsoftware release (mp3 to m4b converter)
Audiobooks.bundle - Plex metadata scraper for Audiobooks
yt-dlp - A feature-rich command-line audio/video downloader
jid - json incremental digger
audiobookshelf - Self-hosted audiobook and podcast server
KeenWrite - Free, open-source, cross-platform desktop Markdown text editor with live preview, string interpolation, and math.
Booksonic-Air - A new Booksonic server based on Airsonic. - OBS: The code here might not be ready for release. Feel free to compile it yourself but if so I recommend searching for the latest commit with the description "Prepare for release"
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.
mp3fs - FUSE-based transcoding filesystem from FLAC to MP3
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m4b-tool vs Plex-Audiobook-Guide
Audiobooks.bundle vs yt-dlp
m4b-tool vs jid
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m4b-tool vs tone
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