ah, i see. and the librivox ones don’t use cue files.
those are the ones i purchased on audible and downloaded so i could have my whole collection in one place and with a better app. so i don’t know who else does audiobooks the same way.
i could just find a really small one and upload it here for you.
if you happen to, (just enough to satisfy Plex scanner but not violate copyright) that would be great.
i think I have one that should be allowable. but the upload button doesn’t seem to allow it, so i’m going to bend things.
create a directory called Your First Listen [B002V8N37Q]
and then put into it,
MODERATOR EDIT: Files removed
I put the files in and BANG… it fired right up.
[chuck@lizum plex-audio.2024]$ ll
total 4932
drwxr-xr-x 2 chuck chuck 102 May 4 20:59 ./
drwxr-xr-x 65 chuck chuck 8192 May 4 20:58 ../
-rw-rw-r-- 1 chuck chuck 99 May 4 20:58 Your First Listen [B002V8N37Q].cue
-rw-rw-r-- 1 chuck chuck 5031161 May 4 20:58 Your First Listen [B002V8N37Q].m4b
[chuck@lizum plex-audio.2025]$
Remember, the scanner ignores anything within [ ]. Are those identifiers needed?
they’re not strictly needed, just a pain to remove ALL of them. so i ignore them and so does Plex. 
now, we just need to give you another 1600 books so you can hit the same point i did. 
2 months. and 1600ish books.
i just grabbed a bunch more that i’m going to put up in a minute here.
any suggestions for testing purposes?
Ummmm. What if I write a dummy script?
heh. you could write a script to rename that file +1 every time…
also that would take up 90% less space than my big collection. 
exactly.
I would create the cue files on the fly too:
[chuck@lizum plex-audio.2026]$ cat *.cue
FILE "Your First Listen [B002V8N37Q].m4b" MP3
TRACK 1 AUDIO
TITLE "Chapter 1"
INDEX 01 0:00:00
[chuck@lizum plex-audio.2027]$
I don’t know how Plex validated it and got the right artwork
I dont know either, i’m assuming it’s hiding in that cue file?
I’m experimenting now and searching PMS source code. I’ll post when I have something.
thanks!
i’m going to upload a bunch more books I just got, i’ll let you know if they show up in the plex library.
Faked the audio files & the embedded ID so it’ll never match anything but 2000 added and PMS found them all instantly (no ‘scan’ needed)
This isn’t a count / threshold problem.
I still suspect permissions. (it happens so easily to all of us)
[chuck@lizum plex-audio.2050]$ cat make-audio
#!/bin/bash
count=0
while [ $count -lt 2000 ]
do
File="Your First Listen [ChuckPa-$count].m4b"
Cue="Your First Listen [ChuckPa-$count].cue"
echo FILE \"Your First Listen [ChuckPa-$count].m4b\" MP3 > "$Cue"
echo TRACK 1 AUDIO >> "$Cue"
echo INDEX 01 0:00:00 >> "$Cue"
cat header.m4b > "$File"
echo "$(uuidgen) $(uuidgen) $(date) $(uuidgen)" >> "$File"
count=$((count + 1))
done
[chuck@lizum plex-audio.2051]$
see, but i’ve had plex on there for 4+ years, and used it for audiobooks for a year. I don’t know what’s different now all the sudden.
the only things I can’t account for are the update that happened about that time, and any changes by my host that I wouldn’t know about. I’ll reach out to them. not expecting much? but i can ask.
oh, also like i said, it’s JUST that one library. the other ones are fine, they scan on their own and it’s all fine and normal. I might’ve rebuilt them a time or two over the years but they never had stubborn problems like this.
I put in a ticket with the host. and I’m uploading 50ish new books i just got, we’ll see what happens in the morning, they’re FTPing their way up and that’s not fast.
ONE Library?
ONE directory ??
I smell a big 
There must be something small different / changed.
they’re all drwxr-xr-x and owner splott (me). i checked the regular video directories and they’re the same.
I don’t know how to check the other thing…
wait wait.
i just…found another one. it’s there. but it says i uploaded it a year ago. and i absolutely uploaded it this morning.
i wonder if this is a SORTING problem. they might be coming up with a wrong timestamp, so i’m not FINDING them because they’re out of order.
I don’t have time to dig further cuz i’m on my way out but…i’ll look again later.
yep. it’s a timestamp problem. they’re correct if i ssh in and ls -alht …but in PLEX, they’re timestamped last year.
i’m still also stuck sorted by Artist/Author instead of Album/Title. I haven’t suddenly forgotten how to sort…something is just wrong.
If I didn’t have other people/devices counting on this library, i’d just uninstall plex and reinstall it. but i don’t want to mess up ALL the different accessing methods. unless i have to.
Check the system’s date/time. Is it syncing using NTP ?
You might need to go in after the fact and do a manual copy (cp) to get new date/time creation.
the system time is correct, i just checked (well, it’s the correct date. i don’t know where that server lives, but it’s not in central time, usa. i don’t begrudge them a few hours difference.) so timestamps are correct on the actual linux cloud-host, and i have a web-based file explorer, that ALSO says the timestamps are correct.
it really is just Plex itself. which is weird, a problem with the server makes more sense, also i can WORK with linux, i was a linux geek once upon a time.
but plex is mysterious and i don’t know where it’s getting those timestamps. i even looked again, just to make sure i didn’t upload those files a year ago and just forget, but nope.
and if the problem isn’t the host, so i don’t know how the manual copy would help…I could delete it all and re-upload it all but that’s pretty extreme…
