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Originally Posted by theducks
Most of the Audiobooks I see have many files.
A Playlist is like index.html, it controls the order
Not every device can handle a single 300MB file
The Issue I frequently see, is most playlists contains Absolute paths.
It does NOT need that if the playlist is packaged with the book files, relative paths work just fine with my MP3 players
What we could use is a MP3Z/R file (MPZ is used  ), unfortunately, the burden would be on CC/Calibre to pack and un pack these before passing to the player |
I will start with what won't happen.
- I am 99.99% sure that calibre will never handle multiple files of the same format per book. Kovid has said this many times. This means that any multi-MP3 audio book must be "packaged" outside of calibre.
- I am 100% sure that CC will not look into/process book format files. This means that any "packaged" audio book must have an Android app that knows what to do with the package format.
A thing that can happen: I have no objection to adding extensions to CC. The only rules are that a) the extension must be a reasonably-accepted standard for something, b) apps must exist that can handle it, and c) it be clear how to use it without increasing our support load. For example, the M4B extension seems to be designed for packaging audio books and is supported by (at least) the Android app "
Smart AudioBook Player"
Some ideas that might work for unpackaged multi-file audio books:
- Save the files as separate books, using a custom series-like column to indicate which chapters are in a given book/mp3 file.
- If there is an app that can stream audio books from the "net", add the appropriate link as a calibre identifier or in a comment. Create an empty text format then send the book to CC.
- Store the audio book chapters somewhere that groups them together and permits accessing them individually, then add an appropriate link to the book record. I tried this with Evernote, putting 3 mp3 files into a single note then adding a link to that note to CC, and it worked. I could play/pause the individual files. Of course, Evernote is not an audio book reader so instead of using it to play the file, perhaps it would be better to extract a file and "read" it with a dedicated app.