I used MP3Tag to fix each file individually. After the merging, they were consistent, but wrong.

Before the merge, the tags were wildly inconsistent. The last step was to fix all the ID3 tags. All books are now in folders based on their author. I actually did this step while merging the files. There is apparently a way to disable this, but it requires a config file that I couldn’t get working. This isn’t so bad since I manually fixed each book later, but kind of annoying. There are two main downsides to this utility: It can be installed with apt like FFmpeg and is incredibly easy to use: Merge any mp3 files in a folder to a single file > mp3wrap 'Book Title' *.mp3 mp3 files and spits out a single, concatenated version. Again, Bash on Windows to the rescue! Mp3Wrap takes any number of. Some were single files, some were three, some were 39. Almost every audiobook was split into multiple files. If quality is important, then you can replace 128k with 256k, but I’m dealing with audiobooks which don’t need a high bitrate to sound fine.

The conversion can be kind of slow considering the length of the files, but it got the job done. FFmpeg is easy to install in the subsystem and a little loop to convert all files in a folder: Convert any m4a files to mp3 then delete the m4a files > for f in *.m4a do ffmpeg -i ' $f' -acodec libmp3lame -ab 128k ' $.mp3' done Luckily, Bash on Windows is here to help. aa which I’m pretty sure is Audible and thus also useless). m4b which means it was an iTunes book and thus useless, another was. This was very easy, since almost all the files were already. The first step was to convert everything to mp3. Before even trying to get them into Plex, the files needed some love. I had books organized into folders by author and maybe series, files were inconsistently named, and file types were not uniform. Pre-Plex CleanupĪs I said before, my collection was a mess.

I decided to try and fix that this week, using Plex of course. In the past, I have been pretty terrible about managing my audiobooks. To pass the time, we listen to various podcasts and audiobooks. We have made this trip a few times now (20), and we’re used to the long drive which is about 12 hours from Columbus. We’re excited for this, for various reasons. In a couple of weeks I’ll be driving to Montreal with my dad for the Canadian Grand Prix.

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