AAC for Audiobooks

[lorac 118]

Not sure if this is posted elsewhere but Emby doesn't recognize the aac extension.

It sees and can play the files at a folder level but doesn't assign them to a book.

[Luke 42078]

Hi, this is generated based on the album tag. Are your files tagged with this information?

[lorac 118]

I don't believe they have any metadata.

They are organized by letter>author>book

[Luke 42078]

How did you configure the options for the library?

[lorac 118]

I redid the Library, now the books show up properly however I can't resume, skip or do anything but play from start no matter which book in this format I try.

Emby recognizes that I've listened to an hour or so of the book but when I went to resume it started from the beginning

I tried resuming Mr. Mercedes just after 9:30 PM

embyserver(1).7z

Edited April 16, 2025 by lorac
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[Luke 42078]

How did you try to resume?

[lorac 118]

The same way I'd resume any other book? It shows your progress and you hit play.
Other formats work fine just not AAC.

Using a desktop web browser seems ok but Android client has issues (v 3.4.36)

Edited April 16, 2025 by lorac
update

[Luke 42078]

Is the problem only with this one book?

[lorac 118]

It affects any book with aac when using the Android app. 

[Luke 42078]

3 hours ago, lorac said:

It affects any book with aac when using the Android app. 

and other codecs are fine?

[lorac 118]

I haven't encountered any issues with other codecs. 

[Luke 42078]

OK can you please zip up the audio book folder and attach it here? Thanks.

[Luke 42078]

@lorac?

[lorac 118]

Here you go

Carrie.7z

[Luke 42078]

On 4/16/2025 at 12:44 AM, lorac said:

I redid the Library, now the books show up properly however I can't resume, skip or do anything but play from start no matter which book in this format I try.

Emby recognizes that I've listened to an hour or so of the book but when I went to resume it started from the beginning

I tried resuming Mr. Mercedes just after 9:30 PM

embyserver(1).7z 1.02 MB · 1 download

@loracredid the library how? These files are not tagged with any album or album artist values, so that's why they only show up in folder view.