Audiobook Series-Filename/Folder Format which allows the "reader" to see the next book in the series in Emby?

[stephanieMIT 0]

I have quite a few authors with prolific series (example: Jodi Taylor - Chronicles of St. Mary's and Anne McCaffrey's Pern Series, and others).

This question is "How did you handle this for your Synology Emby servers?"

Emby handles "regular" one-on-one books, but I'm struggling with a way to format the file/folder naming for a series of books in a way that they don't end up either:
 

1. Organized by the number but not by the series ( if I put the series book number at the front, it puts all books with a series 01, first, regardless of the series they belong to)
2. Organized by the Series name (but I can't read the book name) (If I leave the series name in the folder or file name)
3. Organized by the Author but not the series name/order (with the author in the file names at the front)

I looked at the documentation, but I don't see any guidance for a series of audiobooks as a series or even "Books".

Individual books are not the issue...and I know some will say "use Plex"...but I don't really want to spin up another app if I don't have to and maintain it too...

Also, I use a combo of  Advanced File Renamer and MP3TAG for Metadata cleanup. Does anyone have other Open Source Apps that they use that might be better "in general"

Thanks for your positive suggestions! 

[thekingswolf 49]

Hey steph.  Best file structure is ArtistName/SeriesName/Book XX Book Title/Book XX - Book Title

Then tag your files with the Series title as the album and the book number as the track.  I've included a screen shot of how I did wheel of time as an example and a section of how it shows in emby.  These books are each in a single .m4b file, i prefer having a single file rather than many smaller ones as Emby works better with "resume where you left off" when the book is a single file, but the naming conventions/tag works the same as this with multiple files

Edited May 13 by thekingswolf

[stephanieMIT 0]

Thank you!!