Importing Aaudiobooks to Plwx Windows Server

Plex Media Server
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Hi

So there have been a number of posts about audiobooks.
Some people seem to have imported them into their servers.

I would like to know how to do this.

I have tried to create an “audio” library but the scanners fail to find two-thirds of my audiobooks

Obviously they are not videos of any kind or photos, and I know there are “global” databases of audiobooks that a scanner can connect to.

SO how have people scanned their audiobooks into a library please.

Thanks

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in order to use audio books in plex you need to ensure your metadata is correct. I use author = artist, and album = book title, along with either blank track titles or chaptered titles. Then I number the files in order of the book. And the file names have the same info: Robert Louis Stevenson - Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde and Other Stories - 01 of 03.mp3 I also embed the cover art into the files. and store them: Books/<author>/<title>/files.

If your metadata isnt 100% right it will make a mess of this.

my filename template is: %artist%\%album%\%artist% - %album% - %track% of %totaltracks%

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We don’t have any official audio book support at this time and don’t connect to any online databases for audio books.

Currently users just use a regular music library and have the info embedded in the files as @dbirch explained above

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Many thanks for your help.
I shall give it a try.
Thanks

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Many thanks.
Any chance of ever supporting them?
cheers

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Yes there is a chance

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Hi there

Thanks for your reply as to how you got your audiobooks into Plex.

I thought I had matched my metadata to your template but clearly, I haven’t done it right because I get all sorts of odd things happening. Examples include what Plex thinks is the same book with the same title from the same author when actually it is 5 different books but by the same author. Even though when I go into each title in Plex and do a “get info” it gives me the correct mp3 filename for each title, Plex displays the book title of the first book in Windows explorer (so it starts with A)

When I initially created the library I created it as a music library and took the defaults for searches. Is there something I should have turned off (or alternatively turned on) in the initial library setup

MAny thanks

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Look up https://www.xdlab.ru/en/ and make sure your metadata is standardized

Edit: are you books in individual folders or all in one folder?

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