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Montana Harper · 01-01-2023, 08:16 PM

I love this plugin, but I've run into a problem. It will calculate the duration properly if the audio files themselves are stored by Calibre, but if I make an .m3u or .pls file (with absolute paths) for multi-file audiobooks and place that alone in Calibre, while leaving the audio files in a different directory, it returns a value of 0:00:00. Is there a way to get it to actually parse the playlist files so it can find the actual audio files to calculate the duration?

Moving the files into Calibre isn't a viable solution for me — I use AudioBookShelf to stream my audiobooks, so the files need to be in a specific directory for it to find them — but I do like to track all information about a book, including a playlist link to it, in Calibre.

TIA!

01-01-2023, 08:16 PM	#54
Montana Harper book geek (she/her) Posts: 116 Karma: 2029154 Join Date: Sep 2013 Location: Pacific Northwest Device: iPhone 16 Pro Max, Kindle Paperwhite (10th gen)	.m3u and .pls files? I love this plugin, but I've run into a problem. It will calculate the duration properly if the audio files themselves are stored by Calibre, but if I make an .m3u or .pls file (with absolute paths) for multi-file audiobooks and place *that alone* in Calibre, while leaving the audio files in a different directory, it returns a value of 0:00:00. Is there a way to get it to actually parse the playlist files so it can find the actual audio files to calculate the duration? Moving the files into Calibre isn't a viable solution for me — I use AudioBookShelf to stream my audiobooks, so the files need to be in a specific directory for it to find them — but I do like to track all information about a book, including a playlist link to it, in Calibre. TIA!