Server Version#: 1.30.2.6563 Player Version#: 4.99.2 I currently use Calibre to manage all of my eBooks and AudioBooks. This means all my AudioBooks are mixed in with all of my eBooks in a single directory. My Plex library for AudioBooks points to the Calibre location, and properly imports all A…

Bump, due to lack of response, I went forward with #2 and ran into deeper problems: [image] BUG? Plex Collections Tab Displays Library Tab Plex Media Server Server Version#: 1.31.3.6868 Player Version#: 4.103.2 When browsing my Audio Books library, which is classified a…

I use both calibre and Plex for audio books. However I only use Plex for media playback, and I only use Calibre for bare metadata. I include an opf and a cover.jpg in each album/book folder inside plex which is exported from Calibre.

So my issue here is that I do the same. Calibre is in charge of my folder structure and Metadata, and Plex for playback, except I don’t export anything, it’s all self contained in the library. However, when you have a root Calibre library in the thousands, it turns scanning a file path for a handf…

Your issue is file naming, and folder layout. You cannot use Calibre for that. Plex is fairly strict, and you must also have the metadata embedded in the files 100% correct minor deviations will cause problems. I use Tagscanner to organize my files, the naming schema is %artist%\%album%\%artist% - …

My folder structure is not that far different…but how in the world that many files? I’ve got about that many books, with only ~17,500 files…

Just depends on the audio book, especially those formatted for CDs have a high file count. Tom Clancy’s Dead or Alive is 243 parts. Im averaging about 24 parts per book which isnt that bad. EDIT: Just because you have a similar format doesn’t mean it will behave similarly. Depending on the embedded…

In Plex, scan times will be shortest if you stick very closely to the recommended folder structure, as explained above. Personally, I even use separate subfolders for each disc of a multi-disc album. This should help particularly for the books with several dozen chapters/tracks per disc.

Ya…I’m not following or you’re not following… I follow the same folder structure you indicate. I do not have any media types in these folders except for eBooks (mobi, pdf, epub, whatever) AND m4b. Said M4Bs are all single files with chapters, encoded the same way using the same repeated process. …

So I’m using the folder structure as explained above already to a very similar degree. I don’t need subfolders for discs, all my audiobooks are single file m4bs. So let me restate part of why I’m questioning this all… Get-ChildItem -Filter “*.m4b” -Recurse This I would argue isn’t efficient as o…

[image] EarthBoundX5: But this seems like a problem that should have a solution…? Says who? I just scanned my library: Apr 11, 2023 06:31:54.957 [12604] DEBUG - * Scanning Z:\Books Apr 11, 2023 06:39:15.658 [10192] DEBUG - [Req#1b6f7c] Activity: updated activity cd235e94-9078-407b-b0f5-3…

Improving Library Scan Time with MANY excess folders?

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Bump, due to lack of response, I went forward with #2 and ran into deeper problems:

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Improving Library Scan Time with MANY excess folders?

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