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Audiobookshelf media sorter (self.selfhosted)
submitted 1 year ago by justcallmelarry to c/selfhosted
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So thanks to this community, I have found the wonders of Audiobookshelf! Seems very promosing so far, but my main gripe is with my folder structure. I am therefore wondering if there is any media sorter tools out there? I'm thinking something along the lines of https://github.com/jpillora/media-sort (for plex) that I can use to sort the files into a supported folder structure for ABS, but even better would be if it also had a metadata agent that created an .obf file with common information.

If anyone has any tips it would be greatly appreciated, even if it's some script that someone uses for own personal use that they wouldn't mind sharing, I'm not closed to doing some coding work myself in order to get this right.

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[–] justcallmelarry 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I'm not getting how to set it up without the download functionality, how do i tell it to just reorganize a folder into another folder?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

So you set up a download folder, that is where it expects new files. Then you can drop them in there and it should be detected for automatic import (if it is confident), otherwise manual import (where you select the author & book & format). You still need to add the author to the library in order to have it manage it.

I'll be on my computer later so if you're still having trouble let me know and I can try and put together a step by step guide.

[–] justcallmelarry 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I think mostly I didnt see any options for setting up the download folder, just different download options (like torrent and usenet etc).

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

You create a "Torrent Blackhole" download client, set the Blackhole folder to somewhere irrelevant (nothing should end up here anyway if you don't have an indexer setup, I set mine to /tmp). Set the watch folder to the one you want it to watch for new files.

When you add a book, it'll go in the activity tab and either auto import if it matches a book with your settings, or you'll get the option to manual import it and select the author, book, series, etc.

Keep in mind you still have to add the author under "Add New".

[–] justcallmelarry 1 points 1 year ago

ah ok, got it to work with manual imports now, but I think maybe this doesn't really suit my use case. big thanks for explaining the readarr stuff! I can see why people would like it if they use the grabbing parts of it as well.