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Originally Posted by Krazykiwi
Musicbee understands audiobooks, I've rather fallen for it and use it for all my music and audio now. Out of the box, if you add audiobooks to the Audiobook library it treats them differently when you play them, such as remembering position, turning off any shuffle/repeat settings from when you were playing music, etc) It's also one of the few players outside Itunes that understands the chapter markers properly in m4b formatted books. From there you can use a custom tag (similar to custom columns n calibre) to keep series labelled and together etc.
It's a bit calibre-like in the amount of customisation you can do, which makes it a bit intimidating to get started with, but once you have it set up to your satisfaction it's very nice. Since you mention failing eyesight, there's also a ton of customisation in the visual layout too, which you might find useful.
As far as the initial topic, it'll either calibre/iTunes style organise the files for you, or not, your choice.
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Your post got me to DL MusicBee. I've got to say, it's really nice! I don't really do much in the way of audio books, but for music, it's REALLY nice. It reminds me of MusicMatch Jukebox before Yahoo bought and ruined it. After MMJB got ruined, I found myself less and less interested in listening to my own storehouse of music, and after a hiatus, I just started to listening to the streaming services.
I think I'm going to break out my backups and load them onto the HD.
Back on the topic of good organizers, they can really help you keep your interests from flagging. If there's too much hassle involved, many people will just stop messing with it. In fact, I kind of wish Calibre had a two tiered user interface, one being SUPER simple that does the basic things, and then the more advanced 'complete' version.
For the photographers out there, sort of the way PaintShop Pro has the super simple "Adjust" tab and the full powered "Edit" tab available.