Audiobooks Sorting

[Taurec 60]

Hello Guys,

I hope someone can help me sort my audiobooks.
My Audiobook Library is organized by artist/album.
E.g.
Audiobooks/
                    A.L.Knorr/
                                   A.L.Knorr - The Origin of the Elements/
                                                    A. L. Knorr - The Origin of the Elements 01 - Daughter of the Sea
                                                    A. L. Knorr - The Origin of the Elements 02 - Daughter of the Flames
                                                    A. L. Knorr - The Origin of the Elements 03 - Daughter of the Earth   
                   A. Collin/
                                 A. Collin - A case for the painter/

e.g. In the folder of the artist are the folders for the albums.
If an album has more than one book or several books (series)
the folders are counted up with 01, 02.
In each folder is min. one .mp3 file and one cover.jpg.

I have created this division so that e.g. my books series of Perry Rhodan NEO, which are written by different artists, under one artist Names: Perry Rhodan/
                      Perry Rhodan - NEO/
                                                       Perry Rhodan - NEO 01 - Book 1
                                                       Perry Rhodan - NEO 01 - Book 2
                                                       .....
                                                       Perry Rhodan - NEO 01 - Book 265
are to be found.

If I declare each book not as CD 1... to CD 265 in the tags, I have 265 entries for the NEO books alone.

I hope I have expressed myself understandably.

In my tags of the .mp3 files are the data for artist (div. Schriftstellet), album artist (e.g. Perry Rhodan), Disc No., description etc. incl. Cover picture) contained.

Now my problem:
What does Emby:
Emby creates an artist. (e.g. Perry Rhodan)
For this artist Emby creates an album. (e.g. Perry Rhodan - NEO)
In this album the single books are contained as CD.
Unfortunately these CD's all have the same picture (from the first CD).

On file level an Album.nfo file is created in the first folder with the path of the first cover.
All further folders have no .nfo file

Also, for artists that have only one book, an Artist.nfo file is created with the entry of the book in the same folder.

When I edit the Artist.nfo, the changed data is ignored by Emby.
The same applies to the Album.nfo

My questions:
Why is an artist.nfo created with the reference to the included books.
The artist.nfo should only contain the data of the artist, no information about the albums.

Why is, with an album with several books, the Album.nfo not created in the root directory of the album with the indication of the individual books?

Why are the covers/folder.jpg in the individual directories of the books ignored?

Where are the descriptions of the books stored.
There are only in some nfo files the descriptions. Even if I add them in Emby, they are not included in the nfo files.

Regardless of the files:
What should be the folder structure so that such series as Perry Rhodan or Sherlock Holmes, with several hundred books, do not flood the books page at Emby?

 

hope somebody can help

 

cu Taurec

 

[Gilgamesh_48 1240]

When I used/tested Emby for audiobooks (Now abandoned in favor of Mediamonkey that I find vastly superior to Emby for audiobooks) I found that the "Folder view" was the only way that actually worked correctly, mostly.
It is possible that you "may" find what you need using the folder view.

I did not wish to spend the time needed to comply with Emby's naming and folder structure for audiobooks. Movies and TV shows are quite reasonable and there are tools, like FileBot, to make the renaming easy but I have been unable to find such easy to use tools for audiobooks to comply with Emby's audiobook naming conventions.

I have totally abandoned Emby for my audiobook library because I just could not get it to work with my audiobooks. Emby also does not reliably resume much of the time and FF/RW for audiobooks is mostly a joke and works so poorly that, even when I tried to use Emby with my audiobooks, I avoided  FF/RW as much as I possibly could.

BTW: Plex actually is better, in this one function, than Emby but it is still not good enough for me to use it even for audiobooks. Mediamonkey is the best media manager I have found for audiobooks. Its only real drawback is that it is separate from Emby and therefore an additional program must be run. I have discovered that it only takes a decent computer to have an Emby server and Mediamonkey running together. I do not do that as I prefer to keep servers dedicated to one task. Fortunately Mediamonkey is not very processor intensive so I have resurrected an old computer for my Mediamonkey machine.

Everyone must make their own choice but, for me, Emby has a long long way to go before it can become even decent for audiobooks

[Luke 42079]

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I did not wish to spend the time needed to comply with Emby's naming and folder structure for audiobooks

We don't have any required naming structure. It's all tag driven just like music.

[Gilgamesh_48 1240]

12 minutes ago, Luke said:

We don't have any required naming structure. It's all tag driven just like music.

Tags are more involved than folder  and file naming. The folder view and using absolutely no agents at all is what I found that I needed to do to make Emby work with my audiobooks.

But my main problems with audiobooks has been that FF?RW and resume does not work at all well on my preferred client (Roku) and, this is not Emby's fault, if a book is paused for too long the app is forced to exit out to Emby's home page and then you must actually see a screen to resume and you have to deal with the crappy FF/RW/Resume to get it restarted. That is not condusive to the way I like to listen to audio books.

The way I listen is to start a book, listen for a while, pause the book to accomplish a task or got to bed and, sometime later unpause the book to continue watching. I had a separate client just for audiobooks. Sometimes the "pause" can last 8 hours or longer and, on the Roku, I could not just unpause, I have to bring up that Roku on a screen and go into the Emby app and then navigate to the book I was listening to and hope that it will correctly resume.

Emby is just unsuited for my use case for audiobooks which is why I gave up on Emby and adapted a cheap computer to run Mediamonkey and set up controls throughout my home.
By using Mediamonkey I am able to listen anywhere and pause/FF/RW/resume from anywhere in my home.

Once again Emby is just not suited for my use case for audiobooks.

As a disclaimer I do not know if an android device would be better or even a Fire device. But it does not matter because Mediamonkey solves my listening problems nicely.
BTW: I also use Mediamonkey for music but for video I use Emby. (With occasional dabbles into Plex.)