Audiobooks.bundle vs m4b-tool

Audiobooks.bundle

Audiobook metadata agent for Plex (by seanap)

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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129	Stars	1,078
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0.0	Activity	6.8
almost 2 years ago	Latest Commit	2 months ago
Python	Language	PHP
-	License	MIT License

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Audiobooks.bundle

Posts with mentions or reviews of Audiobooks.bundle. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-05-30.

Martha Wells, A.G. Riddle, and More Audiobooks from Recorded Books
3 projects | /r/humblebundles | 30 May 2023

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.
I don't want streaming music, I just want to stream my music
22 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 5 Apr 2023

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.
Plex needs an audio book style library
6 projects | /r/PleX | 30 Mar 2023

I used this one: https://github.com/seanap/Audiobooks.bundle
My audiobooks collection. I saw a similar post from another user and I thought about sharing mine.
9 projects | /r/PleX | 8 Feb 2023

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.
Any way to deal with audiobooks with bad filenames/metadata?
1 project | /r/PleX | 3 Jun 2022

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.
New tentative user with a few questions
1 project | /r/audiobookshelf | 4 Feb 2022

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.
Is there any planned support for audiobooks?
3 projects | /r/jellyfin | 4 Feb 2022

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
Audiobook Scan Agent
1 project | /r/PleX | 16 Dec 2021

There is no built-in Plex audiobook agent. Do you have (old) Audiobooks.bundle agent installed?
Synology NAS Audiobook Agent
1 project | /r/PrologueApp | 24 Sep 2021

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
New BETA PMS Version Available - 1.24.3.5033-757abe6b4
1 project | /r/PleX | 15 Sep 2021

Sounds more like an issue with the agent. The fork here allows you to disable downloading artwork https://github.com/seanap/Audiobooks.bundle

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
1 project | /r/PleX | 3 Jun 2023
Audiobooks and chapter selection.
1 project | /r/Piracy | 16 May 2023
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.
1 project | /r/PleX | 5 May 2023
BATCH Merging and converting solution for 3.5 TerraByte Audiobook Library?
3 projects | /r/audiobooks | 26 Apr 2023
Combining mp3/m4a files into one audiobook?
1 project | /r/audiobooks | 5 Apr 2023

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.
Plex needs an audio book style library
6 projects | /r/PleX | 30 Mar 2023

MP3Merge, m4b-tool. This one is interesting for iOS users.
Question for bulk ripping audiobooks
1 project | /r/DataHoarder | 16 Jan 2023
Best Windows app for combining multiple MP3s into single M4B
2 projects | /r/DataHoarder | 8 Jan 2023

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?
1 project | /r/audiobooks | 14 Nov 2022
Convert m4b
1 project | /r/LazyLibrarian | 14 Nov 2022

M4B-tool which wraps ffmpeg might be your best bet if you are planning on converting m4b’s.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing Audiobooks.bundle 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

Audiobooks.bundle - Plex metadata scraper for Audiobooks

AudioBookConverter - Improved AudioBookConverter based on freeipodsoftware release (mp3 to m4b converter)

yt-dlp - A feature-rich command-line audio/video downloader

audiobookshelf - Self-hosted audiobook and podcast server

jid - json incremental digger

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"

KeenWrite - Free, open-source, cross-platform desktop Markdown text editor with live preview, string interpolation, and math.

mp3fs - FUSE-based transcoding filesystem from FLAC to MP3

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.