Audio Book Folder Structure?

[ITGuy1024 18]

Having a hard time getting audio books to display right or show up browsing Emby.
I followed this recommendation: https://emby.media/support/articles/Audio-Book-Naming.html

 

For example: A Journey to the Center of the Earth - each mp3 is showing up under latest audio books. However if I go to audio books it's missing.
This has 8 discs and this is how I have them.

- Media
-- Audio Books
--- A Journey to the Center of the Earth
---- Disc 1 of 8
----- mp3 files
---- Disc 2 of 8
----- mp3 files

[Luke 42079]

Hi, what do you mean by missing? Missing from where?

[Junglejim 385]

15 hours ago, ITGuy1024 said:

Having a hard time getting audio books to display right or show up browsing Emby.
I followed this recommendation: https://emby.media/support/articles/Audio-Book-Naming.html

 

For example: A Journey to the Center of the Earth - each mp3 is showing up under latest audio books. However if I go to audio books it's missing.
This has 8 discs and this is how I have them.

- Media
-- Audio Books
--- A Journey to the Center of the Earth
---- Disc 1 of 8
----- mp3 files
---- Disc 2 of 8
----- mp3 files

Yeah, missing? From the "Books" landing view?

Maybe a tagging problem. Folder "Disc 1 of 8"... does your album tag match that?

You could also add a disc tag (1/8, 2/8, 3/8...) to each folder/disc, then put them all in one folder "A Journey to the Center of the Earth" and Emby will split them up in one view the same as multi album music.

It would be nice if you also had a root author folder (Jules Verne/A Journey to the Center of the Earth/...mp3 files) but that's my OCD..  

Edited June 3, 2023 by Junglejim

[ITGuy1024 18]

9 hours ago, Luke said:

Hi, what do you mean by missing? Missing from where?

The "Books" tab at the top of Audio Books library. 
 

7 hours ago, Junglejim said:

Yeah, missing? From the "Books" landing view?

Maybe a tagging problem. Folder "Disc 1 of 8"... does your album tag match that?

You could also add a disc tag (1/8, 2/8, 3/8...) to each folder/disc, then put them all in one folder "A Journey to the Center of the Earth" and Emby will split them up in one view the same as multi album music.

It would be nice if you also had a root author folder (Jules Verne/A Journey to the Center of the Earth/...mp3 files) but that's my OCD..  

Album meta data includes disc x of x.

[justmeyep 5]

Slightly offtopic: Emby is good for video, but I definitely prefer audiobookshelf for audiobooks (and podcasts). Might be worth a try..

Edited June 3, 2023 by justmeyep
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[Luke 42079]

2 hours ago, ITGuy1024 said:

The "Books" tab at the top of Audio Books library. 
 

Album meta data includes disc x of x.

Have you checked the embedded metadata within the files? They need both album and albumartist tags for this.

[Junglejim 385]

7 hours ago, Luke said:

Have you checked the embedded metadata within the files? They need both album and albumartist tags for this.

Yeah, check your tags as @Lukesaid. These are the tags I use for reference..

 

Folder structure...

Media/Audiobooks/George R. R. Martin/A Song of Ice and Fire (1) - A Game of Thrones/01 - A Game of Thrones.m4b

Edited June 4, 2023 by Junglejim

[Luke 42079]

@ITGuy1024 has this helped?

[ITGuy1024 18]

is there a way to update the meta data for multiple items at once? Not refresh meta data but actually type in the changes.

[ITGuy1024 18]

I found a mass update plugin. Rescanned the library / metadata and made no difference.

[Luke 42079]

13 hours ago, ITGuy1024 said:

is there a way to update the meta data for multiple items at once? Not refresh meta data but actually type in the changes.

Have you tried editing the embedded metadata within the audio files?

[Junglejim 385]

10 hours ago, Luke said:

Have you tried editing the embedded metadata within the audio files?

Yeah, it sounds like your trying to edit Emby's library metadata? That's not going to work for music/audiobooks, they are driven by the embedded tags.

If your on windows (mp3tag), if Linux (Kid3 is my pick).

[ITGuy1024 18]

That makes sense. I was editing the Emby metadata.

So comparing "A Journey to the Center of the Earth" the mp3 metadata is the same format / information as another audio book that shows up properly. The only difference is that this book is broken out into multiple disc folders.

 

[Luke 42079]

10 hours ago, ITGuy1024 said:

That makes sense. I was editing the Emby metadata.

So comparing "A Journey to the Center of the Earth" the mp3 metadata is the same format / information as another audio book that shows up properly. The only difference is that this book is broken out into multiple disc folders.

 

Looks like it has a blank album Artist though.

[ITGuy1024 18]

Indeed. However so do my other ones and they show up fine.

I added the album artist to all the files under Disc 1 and 2. Now disc 1 and 2 are showing up as separate audio books.

[Luke 42079]

9 hours ago, ITGuy1024 said:

Indeed. However so do my other ones and they show up fine.

I added the album artist to all the files under Disc 1 and 2. Now disc 1 and 2 are showing up as separate audio books.

They need to have the same album and albumartist values to be grouped together into a single album.

[ITGuy1024 18]

That actually made it worse since all the disc folders share the same file names. It just made all the track 1, track 2, track 3, ect group together.

I think the solution is going to be manually changing the filenames and titles to something like this on all of the files.
A Journey to the Center of the Earth (Frederick Davidson) Disc 2 of 8 01
A Journey to the Center of the Earth (Frederick Davidson) Disc 2 of 8 02
A Journey to the Center of the Earth (Frederick Davidson) Disc 2 of 8 03

Or maybe even easier. Rename all the files to be sequential and just dump them into a root folder and forget the different disc folders.

[ITGuy1024 18]

Yep that took care of it. Mass rename everything to go in order and cut out the folders.

That mp3tag is a great tool thanks for suggesting it @Junglejim
Thanks for the time @Luke

Edited June 8, 2023 by ITGuy1024