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Originally Posted by ACGAuthor
I love Calibre with all my heart and think it's the best thing ever and I'm totally not worthy. But I'm not sure I'd get a very warm reception if I went to the Calibre developers and said "help me learn how to make your program do things it was never intended to do!"
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You may be right. But I think the advantages of using the calibre framework might outweigh the hassle of working within its design parameters.
One file per book, yes, but couldn't you have your audio book import take all the files for an audio book and zip them up into one file? And have an audio book editor, which would display the component files in the zip file, and allow you to re-arrange the order and add/delete audio files?
(Unless you mean that you'd want the audio book in the same record as the ebook - but this would be a mistake, IMO. Audio books have different metadata, at the least the publication date, than the ebooks)
Clearly, the audio stored in calibre in the zip file should be in a lossless format, with the preferred format for each device being stored in the device info, with on-the-fly conversion when copying to the device from the zip file.
I suspect that lots of calibre users are also audiobook users.