Call Audible's search endpoint with the author and title.

When importing audiobook files, use the album and artist ID3 tags to determine the title and author, respectively.

Since I was already using Beets to manage my music collection, I wondered if I could write a plugin that uses Audible as the source of book metadata. Beets uses this metadata to correct inconsistencies on imported files such as typos or filling in missing tags.īeets can be extended by writing plugins. It scans imported music and looks up track metadata from various online sources. Extending Beets to Support Audiobooksīeets is an incredible cross-platform command-line tool for managing music collections. Additionally, Mp3tag is also difficult to automate as it does not run on the command line. However, this relies on Mp3tag, an application that only works on Windows. Previously, the best way of tagging audiobook files was manually importing each book into Mp3tag after configuring it to scrape book metadata from Audible. Here is an example of how ID3 tags map to book metadata. This is also the case if using other solutions like Audiobookshelf or Booksonic. However, this setup requires audiobooks to be accurately tagged to show book metadata. I settled on selfhosting a Plex instance and using the Prologue app to access my audiobook collection. Hence, I started looking for solutions to selfhost my audiobook collection and stream them from my iPhone. However, using the Audible app to access audiobooks has some significant downsides primarily not having control over purchased content and content potentially disappearing due to licensing issues. Audible is the dominant player in the audiobook space.

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