Audiobook library - can't get audio book to show up as "book"

[MKay 6]

Hey,

I just started to put my audio books into Emby to see how it goes.

I decided for the folder structure of "book/files.mp3". I did set this settings in the library.

Then I put in two audio books as follows:

audiobook/
    book1/
       chapter1.mp3
       chapter2.mp3
    book2/
       ....

for book1 it worked without a problem and it appears as "book"in the library.

For book2 however it just shows under "folder" and under suggestions. But in suggestions it shows every chapter as an entry.
I want book2 also to show up as a book.

After some research I found out, that it just uses albums for books. To I checked the metadata and Album is set correctly. I also tried to change the title for each chapter to just "Chapter x". But nothing changes.
I also tried now to remove all metadata for the mp3 files. But still no change. I don't really now what is wrong with this book.

See screenshot for the structure. Hope anyone might be able to help me understand how this works.

Edited August 31, 2024 by MKay

[MKay 6]

Ok, I found out what was missing.

For anyone having the same issue and wondering why this happens:
There are 2 Artist fields in the Metadata. Artists and Album artists. In my case the "album artists" was empty. So I tried setting this manually.
After updating this field and rescanning metadata, the audio book finally appears as an album/book.

For the linux users a quick command to do so:
 

for x in *.mp3; do id3v2 --TPE2 'George R.R. Martin; Elio M. Garcia Jr.; Linda Antonsson' $x; done

--TPE2 is the fieldname for album artist. And you can use id3v2 cli to update this field.

[Luke 42077]

Thanks for following up !