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Jellyfin + Audiobooks with Chapters (self.selfhosted)

submitted 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) by ProtecyaTec to c/selfhosted

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I've started working with Media Servers recently and am starting to get acustom to Jellyfin. I'm using Book Lib Connect and AAX Audio Converter to download and convert my purchased Audiobooks.

I would like my Audiobooks to retain chapters, but I'm not sure the export I'm getting from the above is fully compatible with Jellyfin. Here's what I've tried so far:

Audiobooks

Author
- Book
- - (01) Opening Credits.m4b
- - (02) Chapter 1.m4b
- - etc.
- - Book.txt
- - metadata.json
- - chapters.json

I also have the full m4b file and the aax file in an ignored folder at the top of the book.

Book.txt contains the author, title, narrator, publish year, description, duration. Separated by new lines.

metadata.json contains specific information like purchase date, product #, author #, SKU.

chapters.json contains the actual chapter titles. chapter length, start offset.

Any ideas on how I can get Jellyfin to read the json files? Do I need to write a conversion script into some other file type? Maybe Jellyfin isn't the right software for Audiobooks?

I'm open to ideas, suggestions, or any other advice.

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 6 months ago (1 children)

I agree. This is the best choice for audio books.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 6 months ago

Big agree. I tried to make jellyfin acceptable for a while and life with audiobookshelf is just so good. https://github.com/advplyr/audiobookshelf