Baenwort 97 Posted December 26, 2018 Share Posted December 26, 2018 I'm hopeful that this will finish or be integrated into Emby. I do wonder how that Audible metadata works. I know Emby has in the past refused to do scraping but will only integrate a data source if it provides an API. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Luke 37174 Posted December 26, 2018 Share Posted December 26, 2018 The next release of Emby Server will have improved support for audio books. Thanks ! 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
leram84 2 Posted December 26, 2018 Share Posted December 26, 2018 The next release of Emby Server will have improved support for audio books. Thanks ! that... that can't possibly be all you give us! lol, Are you speaking in response to Beanwort's metadata comment? or do you mean actual playback controls (client)? Is this something that will compete with embook itself?? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Luke 37174 Posted December 26, 2018 Share Posted December 26, 2018 At the very least, they will be organized by albums and have support for the same internet metadata providers as music libraries. Hopefully more new things as well if time allows. Thanks. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CChris 58 Posted January 29, 2019 Share Posted January 29, 2019 Hi, I am very new to Emby, and have now started to setup my media Libraries.I have one AudioBook, in m4b Format (converted from Audible Original Format).When I'm trying to play this book, I receive the following error message:"Playback Error No compatible streams are currently available. Please try again later or contact your system administrator for details." I thought, Emby does support this File type?I could use m4a or mp3 of course, but I would like to keep the chapter option available - therefore I've made the decision for m4b...I am using Emby Server on my Synology NAS (DS216Play)Any tipps & tricks for me?thanks and with best regards,Christoph Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Luke 37174 Posted January 30, 2019 Share Posted January 30, 2019 @@CChris can you please attach the emby server log? Thanks. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CChris 58 Posted January 30, 2019 Share Posted January 30, 2019 (edited) Hi, pls find attached the Logs and some Screenshots embyserver.log Edited January 30, 2019 by CChris Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Luke 37174 Posted January 30, 2019 Share Posted January 30, 2019 What browser are you trying to play from? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CChris 58 Posted January 30, 2019 Share Posted January 30, 2019 (edited) I am using Firefox right now.But I can also try another one... let's see how this will work Test-Results: Firefox: ERROR Chrome: OK IE: ERROR (no compatible stream...) Edge: OKbtw: does emby support chapters in m4b files? Edited January 30, 2019 by CChris Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CChris 58 Posted February 14, 2019 Share Posted February 14, 2019 Any update on my issue above?I still can't playback my AudioBooks on Firefox, while it's working perfectly fine on GoogleChrome.If you need a new topic for this, or any additional information, pls. let me know Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Luke 37174 Posted February 14, 2019 Share Posted February 14, 2019 Can you please supply a sample file for testing? Thanks. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CChris 58 Posted February 14, 2019 Share Posted February 14, 2019 Hi, sure.I will provide you those samples soon.I've just noticed one audio-book which is working - so I will share this and two not working books.Just need to create a share on my synology. Send you everything per Private Message then. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Luke 37174 Posted February 17, 2019 Share Posted February 17, 2019 It's resolved for the next release. We'll just have them transcode in firefox. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CChris 58 Posted February 17, 2019 Share Posted February 17, 2019 top, thanks I would also like to know, if it's possible that emby will support chapters in m4b files... ?Will this be a feature request - or is it even already possible? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Luke 37174 Posted February 17, 2019 Share Posted February 17, 2019 It's possible for the future. Thanks. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CChris 58 Posted February 17, 2019 Share Posted February 17, 2019 top, Thanks Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mrfragger 39 Posted June 20, 2019 Share Posted June 20, 2019 (edited) I have most of my audiobooks in m4b but after doing extensive research I'm considering also doing some audiobooks into: opus one file with chapters (just like an m4b) ...I've done it with the free program fre:ac (free audio converter) 1.1 https://www.freac.org/ just choose a folder of mp3 files then convert them to opus 32kbps and VLC plays it back with chapter support with the name of chapters showing based on the filenames of the mp3s. Evidently they even support images now too but for me it's not that important at all. Sidenote: I should mention also fre:ac also lets you convert to m4b files just doesn't have cover (image) nor title and author support but still works well as it does embed the chapters. You can view the opus metadata with -comment tagging using opus-tools (opusenc) starting at line #173 https://github.com/p2004a/opus-tools/blob/metadata-file/man/opusenc.1 this metadata-file was implemented 2 years ago into opus-tools edit: forgot to add the link for opus and ogm (ogg) chapter support https://wiki.xiph.org/index.php?title=Chapter_Extension&mobileaction=toggle_view_desktop Another is mka which is matroska mkv but audio. From the FAQ on their website https://www.matroska.org/technical/guides/faq/index.html Here are some reasons that placing audio in MKA is useful:1. The tags will be the same no matter what audio format you use. That means that if you write a program to read back tags, it only has to read them from one type of tagging system, no matter what type of audio is being used.2. All tracks to a CD can be in a single file. You have the option of dividing the tracks into seperate Tracks, or seperate Chapters. You could make your own compilation in a single file, even using different audio formats, such as MP3 and Vorbis.3. If you write a program to read audio of of MKA, then you don't need to understand how the framing works in the different formats because it is already done for you in Matroska.4. It is easy to delete portions of the audio without reencoding because you just throw away those blocks. You don't even have to be able to play that format back, you could edit by just knowing timecodes.5. Detecting differences between two audio streams would be easy because you could store both in a single file, start playback, and then just switch between tracks.6. If you intend to combine the audio with video, then having is in MKA means you can merge it with an MKV, even if the application doesn't support the audio type.7. In the case of MP3, MP2 AC3 and even some AAC, using "compressed headers" the MKA file may even be smaller than the original "raw" file, without losing any bit of information. Also chapter support is fairly straightforward evidently CHAPTER01=00:00:00.000CHAPTER01NAME=Chapter 01CHAPTER02=00:05:00.000CHAPTER02NAME=Chapter 02CHAPTER03=00:10:00.000CHAPTER03NAME=Chapter 03CHAPTER04=00:15:00.000CHAPTER04NAME=Chapter 04 So I still need to play around with this mka as I've been using mkvtoolnix to batch remux tons of m4v to mkv which worked great. So now have to play around with this mka audiobooks more. I want to embed opus files if I can get a couple of app devs to support it in the iOS audiobook players and if that fails then resort to using HE-AAC 32kbps which I'm currently doing with m4b files. I'm planning to either use ffmpeg to convert them or mkvtoolnix This guy has quite a bunch of good examples of converting to audiobooks using ffmpeg https://dbojan.github.io/howto_pc/media,%20How%20to%20add%20chapter%20marks%20to%20audio%20books,%20using%20opus%20codec.htm Simple way to mux audiobooks using mkvtoolnix is found on a kodi wiki under the section Converting Audiobooks https://kodi.wiki/view/Audiobooks Another random option if wanting to use all cores and threads when converting is to just convert each individual mp3 to opus or aac or m4a but I think it's messy and not ideal long term although it's faster cuz when doing single containers it has to convert one mp3 file at a time due to the structure of the container. So to sum it up please consider adding audiobook chapter support for opus container and mka container in addtion to m4b container. Edited June 20, 2019 by mrfragger Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Inrego 76 Posted July 17, 2019 Author Share Posted July 17, 2019 I recently checked back, and audiobook recognition and library support is much better in Emby backend now. Also, the library I used for playing audio across platforms has become active again. All in all, it means I've picked up this project again. Right now, I'm hoping that I can make the app completely without any server plugin. We'll see how that works out. I'm also going to look into adding support for Plex server. So for now, the scope of my project is just making an app for smoother audiobook playback, with the features you'd expect from an audiobook player. Therefore, I thought it was fitting to give the project a new name. You'll hear from me when I have more info to share. It's still very early in development. I know I've been gone a long time. Lots of that time has been spent developing apps at work, so now I have much more experience in developing stable cross-platform apps. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dibbes 431 Posted July 19, 2019 Share Posted July 19, 2019 I recently checked back, and audiobook recognition and library support is much better in Emby backend now. Also, the library I used for playing audio across platforms has become active again. All in all, it means I've picked up this project again. Right now, I'm hoping that I can make the app completely without any server plugin. We'll see how that works out. I'm also going to look into adding support for Plex server. So for now, the scope of my project is just making an app for smoother audiobook playback, with the features you'd expect from an audiobook player. Therefore, I thought it was fitting to give the project a new name. You'll hear from me when I have more info to share. It's still very early in development. I know I've been gone a long time. Lots of that time has been spent developing apps at work, so now I have much more experience in developing stable cross-platform apps. You serious about it? I mean, the last update I have is from before you mentioned you were in a new relationship... :-) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Inrego 76 Posted July 22, 2019 Author Share Posted July 22, 2019 You serious about it? I mean, the last update I have is from before you mentioned you were in a new relationship... :-)As usual, I can't promise a timeline or even a finished product. Actually, I am again in a rather new relationship. But it's not as time consuming, and now the project on my hands is a lot more manageable. So far, it looks like I'll do a few hours, a few days per week. I'll let you know when I have more to share. Sent from my VOG-L29 using Tapatalk Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
leram84 2 Posted July 25, 2019 Share Posted July 25, 2019 you, this guy https://www.reddit.com/r/PleX/comments/cffe27/prologue_an_audiobook_app_for_plex_ios_now/ and the booksonic dev should all team up and make the mother of all abook apps lol Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chyron 236 Posted January 8, 2020 Share Posted January 8, 2020 Any updates on this? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Luke 37174 Posted January 8, 2020 Share Posted January 8, 2020 Not yet but hopefully soon. Thanks. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
darkside40 91 Posted November 15, 2020 Share Posted November 15, 2020 Any recent updates on this topic? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Inrego 76 Posted November 15, 2020 Author Share Posted November 15, 2020 22 minutes ago, darkside40 said: Any recent updates on this topic? I made a new app from scratch. It just started closed alpha testing. Currently it only supports Plex as backend, but Emby support is coming. You can see more on reddit.com/r/AbooApp 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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