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Originally Posted by Bluebonnet
Those plugins above are constantly brought up anytime someone mentions audiobooks. However, neither one do anything to help you get real metadata for an audiobook. I have both and have studied them. Both only really help IMPORT the files for creating the records in Calibre.
Calibre is sorely lacking any support to get audiobook metadata. There is no Audible metadata plug-in, even though my searches in this forum show it has been requested many times. Amazon is frequently mentioned as a supported source, but there is no way I have found to make it show the audiobook version. Same with Goodreads. It's not that they don't have the audiobooks, but there is no way to tell either plugin that you want the audiobook version of data.
Even though this is my first post, I have been following this topic for years. I have been using Calibre for a decade, and have very large ebook and audiobook libraries. I keep mine separated because I need to "serve" the libraries using different interfaces (calibre-web for ebooks, booksonic for audiobooks).
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All of the plugins in
Index of plugins were first developed by people who had a need for them - and subsequently enhanced as a result of plugin user suggestions.
Given this is your first post I can assume you haven't requested an enhancement to either of plugins I suggested, nor the Goodreads plugins you mention, or chimed in when relevant requests have been made in the Plugin ideas thread. AFAIK no one here claims to be clairvoyant
Plugins are shipped as python source code. So, many calibre users with a specific need 'hack' existing plugins to provide additional functionality for their own private use. You can do the same with the calibre core.
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