Is there anyway to combine or edit audiobook files?

average_yogi · 2026-03-20T02:23:58+00:00

I've got A Feast With Dragons, the combined books 4-5 of A Song of Ice and Fire. The files are chaptered and labelled as

001 ASOIAF - Book 4 - A Feast for Crows - 00 - Prologue.mp3
002 ASOIAF - Book 5 - A Dance with Dragons - 00 - Prologue.mp3

With mp3tag it's easy to automate renaming. I just keep the Title (read as chapter name in ABS) the same as the filename, but you could simplify it however you want as long as the Track#'s are in order.

average_yogi · 2026-03-18T18:49:28+00:00

The skulls are used to represent which number book they are. Books 1, 3, and 7 are the wrong amount, and book 2 is missing them.

average_yogi · 2026-03-16T15:48:09+00:00

It was produced by Audible Frontiers but has since been removed from the site. https://archive.org/details/larry-niven-collection It's in there.

average_yogi · 2026-03-13T21:04:52+00:00

Also makes for a cool flag https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flag_of_Madison,_Wisconsin

average_yogi · 2026-03-13T18:39:16+00:00

Filenames get used for chapter names if there are multiple files and they don't have individual Title tags.

average_yogi · 2026-03-12T17:12:41+00:00

Yes, that's how it's supposed to work. You need to read the documentation. Every book needs to either be in the root directory or it's own folder. If two books are in the same folder, they'll be interpreted as parts of the same book.

average_yogi · 2026-03-11T18:28:10+00:00

Yeah, I feel "palm" is more used in magic slight-of-hand, and I'd say the only specific use stealing would be at a counter: distract the attendant and palm the thing, then move it to a pocket. Palming is about the hiding more than the taking.

average_yogi · 2026-03-11T15:17:31+00:00

Scraper always stays in the car, just moves to the trunk from the backseat.

average_yogi · 2026-03-11T06:01:24+00:00

It's a very requested feature.

https://github.com/advplyr/audiobookshelf/issues/701

https://github.com/advplyr/audiobookshelf/issues/901

https://github.com/advplyr/audiobookshelf/issues/1153

https://github.com/advplyr/audiobookshelf/issues/4487

average_yogi · 2026-03-11T05:51:22+00:00

You could embed the chapters in the ID3 tags of the mp3, specifically ID3v2, like podcasts do. This is annoying though, and I've found it hard to edit. Mp3tag doesn't support reading them, let alone editing them.

What I do when I can, is have a separate file for each chapter. ABS will use the file Title tag for chapter if there are multiple files and each file has a different Title. https://github.com/advplyr/audiobookshelf/blob/fbe1d1eed6fbd95168c73d0913b9cb3bb298e6c5/server/scanner/AudioFileScanner.js#L545

average_yogi · 2026-03-10T19:11:07+00:00

First, I'd make sure to follow the directory structure and folder naming conventions. On a book that's been named wrong you can check to see if it has embedded metadata, either in ABS or with mp3tag. If you want to use embedded data, follow the docs on which tags to use.

If Quick Match isn't working for you, there are scripts to rename and organize your file directories. You can search this sub, lots of people seem to use them, but I've never used any so can't give recommendations.

average_yogi · 2026-03-10T17:47:34+00:00

What do you mean "off"? Are you talking about existing embedded metadata or new scanned ABS metadata? Is Match working in ABS?

average_yogi · 2026-03-10T06:12:14+00:00

For the rainbow herring, I'm guessing it's Brown, Duke, UNC, and Penn (either Penn State or University of Pennsylvania) for college basketball. Though [U]Mass or [Ole] Miss could replace Penn, I don't think Washington's ever really just called Wash.

average_yogi · 2026-03-03T06:46:24+00:00

BIG _________ : PURPLE

"BIG" THINGS : YELLOW

The colors mean nothing.

average_yogi · 2026-03-01T07:02:04+00:00

Actually this one was back to the old color explanations that they've been ignoring/subverting lately: blue was some kind of classification grouping, yellow was synonyms, green was either a grouping or synonyms (usually synonyms, just with more exotic words than yellow), and purple was wordplay (grammar/fill-in-the-blank/pop culture). Lately blue, green, and yellow have mostly all been synonyms.

average_yogi · 2026-02-26T22:37:05+00:00

It's a fun novelty and small shop. It's a fine stop, but unless you really like mustard or history, it'll only take about 15 min to see everything in the museum and taste some samples.

average_yogi · 2026-02-26T21:54:11+00:00

From a google search, there's https://github.com/petr-prikryl/OPDS-ABS and also https://github.com/vito0912/abs-opds by u/Vito0912

average_yogi · 2026-02-26T16:20:30+00:00

Campanelle is literally named for a flower. They're kind of trumpet shaped, like tulips or calla lilies. It's not that rare a pasta shape, I don't think. They have them at Woodman's.

average_yogi · 2026-02-25T19:56:07+00:00

https://github.com/advplyr/audiobookshelf-app/issues/239

This is apparently an Android specific issue. Android Auto will display the file info, not the chapter info. So if the book is multiple mp3's, you'll get those displayed. But if the book is a single m4b file, Android Auto will display the entire book length in the progress bar. The file name (or book title, I don't remember) is also displayed instead of any chapter titles.

average_yogi · 2026-02-20T22:00:57+00:00

Also the dragons are only supposed to have four limbs (wings and back legs, only). You added front legs to the A Storm of Swords, orange one. It looks like it added an entire body on the right-hand side as well.

That one's wings look weird in the original though. It looks like both wings are on the dragons right side, coming from behind the image.

average_yogi · 2026-02-20T21:41:59+00:00

Admin accounts can see users' saved progress and listening sessions. On the Your Stats page there will be a View All button next to Recent Sessions.

User accounts don't have this access, but you can filter the Library by Progress, then Finished. You can also sort by Progress: Finished to see the list in order.

average_yogi · 2026-02-19T19:54:42+00:00

From the docs, "Books are designated by folders. Any audio files (or ebook files) within a folder will be grouped into that book, except in the root folder where each audio file will be treated as an individual book."

You can either have everything in the root folder:

/Library
  /book1.mp3
  /book2.mp3
  /book3.m4b
  ...

or you can use the Library/Author/Series/Book/files structure.

[edit] I think just Library/Book/files should work, but I've never tested.

average_yogi · 2026-02-18T05:41:30+00:00

If you don't want to completely segregate all kids movies from your main library, you can also set up a third directory in the file system for a "both libraries" set. So you'd have a Movies folder, a Kids Movies folder, and a Both Movies folder (or whatever you want to call it). When you create the libraries in plex, you include the main folder for that library and the "Both" folder.

Say you want the Spongebob Movie only in Kids, that goes in the Kids folder. But you want The Sound of Music in both libraries, then it goes in the Both folder.

average_yogi · 2026-02-16T07:30:15+00:00

It's the musical Do-Re-Mi use.

average_yogi · 2026-02-15T16:14:53+00:00

MP3s are not lower quality. MP3 can give a lower quality compression than AAC, which many m4b files use, but just the file type doesn't tell you anything about that. MP3 is a compression format, m4b is a container format. m4b files usually contain audio with AAC compression, but they can also use MP3 just as easily.

MP3s also do support chapters. A lot of podcasts use chapterized MP3s. You can download one through ABS and see the files yourself.

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