This a command line utility that 'organises' an audiobook collection to a particular file structure, as well as adding missing meta data and downloading from Audible using audible-cli and converting to M4b.
** IMPORTANT **
This solution is currently set to use the x64 MediaInfo.dll, so you need to target x64 when building. Both the x86 and x64 MeddiaInfo.dll's are in the 'Other Solution Files' solution folder.
I create this simple console app just for myself, to organise my fairly large library of audiobooks, that, before organisating had a variety of weird and wonderful naming conversions, audio formats and missing audiobooks that were in my Audible library but not local, and missing meta data... Because I got bored.
This application wasn't written for the intention of allowing a multidude of 'options' to cater for anyone elses preferences, nor to create some sor to sort of fan base. If you wish to customise for your preferences, it shouldn't be hard to do so...
I thought it worthwhile though, to make this repo public, because within the code base it does offer quite a lot that some may find very useful, and that took me a while to research and implement from past projects I've worked on... Which include
- A fairly decent ffmpeg wrapper written in C# (which, I largely got from somewhere else on github, and altered / added to it).
- Ability to unencrypt both Audible .aax and .aaxc files, using a variety of methods, including RCrack, looking up registry settings for the appearance of 'activation_bytes' (needed for unencrypting), should you have the 'Audible' or 'Audible Manager' app installed or audible-cli activated.
- ffmpeg built with libfdk_aac.
- Use of MediaInfo.dll with a C# wrapper to store basic meta data implemented.
Iterate through a directory of audiobook files and move and rename them into a particular folder structure:
- <Aurthor><Series?><Series-Part?>. <(Book Series Part)> (<Narrated - Narrator>).mp4
For Example
- \Arthur C. Clarke\Space Odyssey\1. 2001 (Book 1) - 2008 (Narrated - Dick Hill).m4b
It ideally needs the meta data to be present within the file, in order to properly move and rename them according the naming convention. It will attempt 3 different methods to identify meta data fields:
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It will see if you are using Reader which holds a database of your books and their file paths... So it can lookup the author, series, title etc. Readarr must be installed.
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It will use a books.json file in your OpenAudible data folder if you have one, which will contain the meta data. OpenAudible must be installed.
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If using the audible-sync arugument, to download and organise from Audible (using audible-cli) when executing the 'download all books' command, it can reference from the library.json file for the meta data. audible-cli must be installed and Activated
This application will indeed download all your books from Audible and convert them to M4b. I have this run app run periodically on a scheduled task to do just this, so once I've purchased a book from Audible, within about half an hour I have the book locally in my library, properly organised and named and converted from either AAX or AAXC audible encrypted format to non-encrypted, M4b format, complete with chapter information.
You must run the audible-cli CLI once and activate it for it to work. Refer to the website, the commands are simple enough. When running first time run:
audible quickstart
To get your profile set up and activator with Audible (Important note, use 'browser' login, rather than username and password legacy loging, when asked).
To use audible-cli for your own purposes outside of this app, you can refer to the list of commands availble by using:
audible -h
See 'SilentRunAudiobookOrganiser.vb' to run this CLI as a scheduled task, hidden under your user context (or you can create a service under Windows).
AudiobookOrganiser.exe -audible-sync
This will perform a 1-way sink from Audible only. It will only refresh from the 'last sync' (not redownloading everything), so it's very quick.
If you don't include any arguments, it will perform ane existing library sync only, which, depending on the size of your library and if anything needs converting, can take a while.
I personaly opt to run -audible-sync regularly on a scheduled task, and run without arguments manually.
AudiobookOrganiser.exe -update-tags-only
Don't do any file / file reorganising or cleanup, just sort out the tags.
Modify the file 'App.Config' (pre-build file) or 'AudiobookOrganiser.exe.config' (built / bin folder file) to suit your needs.
Backup your colleciton before running. I won't be hold responsible for messing your library up.