[GUI Plugin] AudioBook_Duration

[theducks]

Originally Posted by BetterRed

@theducks - post #8 is 'confusing', I suspect it's redundant.

@wiso - what file types does the PI process? Example: can it do flac and mp4.

BR

I just saw it now.
Agreed it is confusing
you want to delete it?

[wiso]

Originally Posted by BetterRed

@theducks - post #8 is 'confusing', I suspect it's redundant.

@wiso - what file types does the PI process? Example: can it do flac and mp4.

BR

Edit: I was thinking on Add more file type extensions so...Realeased Version 1.0.4 with support for this file type extensions (Mp3, M4a, Mp4, Ogg, Flac, Aac, Ac3)

If you have problems with any file type extension post it

P.S: And yes, post #8 is redundant, we can delete now

[BetterRed]

Originally Posted by wiso

Edit: I was thinking on Add more file type extensions so...Released Version 1.0.4 with support for this file type extensions (Mp3, M4a, Mp4, Ogg, Flac, Aac, Ac3)

BR

[wiso]

# Version 1.0.5 - 2021-12-08
Fixed requirements description.
This plugin needs, calibre 5.0 or newer.

P.S: Question...the upgrade on the download web https://plugins.calibre-ebook.com/ and Calibre repository is done automatical or manual?

[BetterRed]

Originally Posted by wiso

# Version 1.0.5 - 2021-12-08
Fixed requirements description.
This plugin needs, calibre 5.0 or newer.

P.S: Question...the upgrade on the download web https://plugins.calibre-ebook.com/ and Calibre repository is done automatical or manual?

If the PI is in the sticky index here, which this one is, then should do it automatically, every hour on the half hour.

Try removing the version number from the zip file name, it's redundant, what matters is what's in __init__.py.

BR

[ATimson]

It would be useful if this also supported the M4B file extension. (The file is the same format as M4A/MP4.)

Does it support audiobooks split across multiple files (e.g. one MP3 per chapter, or a vendor that splits into multiple M4B files based on size)?

[wiso]

Originally Posted by ATimson

It would be useful if this also supported the M4B file extension. (The file is the same format as M4A/MP4.)

Does it support audiobooks split across multiple files (e.g. one MP3 per chapter, or a vendor that splits into multiple M4B files based on size)?

yes, it supports several audios, as long as they are in the same folder and returns the total duration.

M4b is not supported yet, but i'll try to include it this week.

Thx for your feedback!!

P.S: Version Update
# Version 1.0.6 - 2021-12-13
Added support for (M4b) extension.

[silatiw]

I catalog audiobooks in .zip format. Multi-file audiobooks reside in a folder compressed into a .zip file. and then added to the caliber.
Can you make your plugin be able to calculate the duration of the audiobook in such a compressed .zip file?
Is such a challenge possible?

The name of the folder with the .mp3 files <title - author>
The name of the .zip file <title - author.zip>

[wiso]

Originally Posted by silatiw

I catalog audiobooks in .zip format. Multi-file audiobooks reside in a folder compressed into a .zip file. and then added to the caliber.
Can you make your plugin be able to calculate the duration of the audiobook in such a compressed .zip file?
Is such a challenge possible?

The name of the folder with the .mp3 files <title - author>
The name of the .zip file <title - author.zip>

Thx for your feedback.

I would like the plugin to be able to support compressed files, at least zip and rar without password.

But I don't know when it will be functional, maybe in January, maybe a little later.

[silatiw]

Thank you very much for your interest in my topic.

[ATimson]

Originally Posted by wiso

yes, it supports several audios, as long as they are in the same folder and returns the total duration.

M4b is not supported yet, but i'll try to include it this week.

Thx for your feedback!!

Thank *you* for the change!

[wiso]

Originally Posted by silatiw

I catalog audiobooks in .zip format. Multi-file audiobooks reside in a folder compressed into a .zip file. and then added to the caliber.
Can you make your plugin be able to calculate the duration of the audiobook in such a compressed .zip file?
Is such a challenge possible?

The name of the folder with the .mp3 files <title - author>
The name of the .zip file <title - author.zip>

# Version 1.0.7 - 2022-01-02
Added support for single compressed files (Zip, Rar) without password.
Example mi_book.zip that includes a forlder and files for each chapter
(chapter1.mp3, chapter2.ogg, chapter3.aac ...)

native support for .zip files

we need to install or add a file for rar support
instructions for support of .rar files.

windows:
https://www.rarlab.com/rar_add.htm
Add the file unrar.exe inside the plugin folder like User / AppData / roaming / calibre / plugins / AudioBook_Duration / rarfile / unrar.exe

linux:
install rar and unrar.
example for debian ubuntu.
sudo apt-get install rar
sudo apt-get install unrar

mac:
untested, but should be similiar like linux
install rar and unrar


P.S: I know calibre had support for zip 7z and rar files on calibre.utils, but i can't open rar files only with unrar.dll i need unrar.exe for unrar_tool too :S
(i use unrar_tool to open rar files whithout extract files)

[ATimson]

It looks like the ZIP support might be trying to get exclusive access to the files?

I keep my Calibre library in my OneDrive folder, so trying to get the duration for a newly-added files. Ones that have completed the sync to OneDrive are fine.

Other apps can read the ZIP files while the sync is still pending. I would expect the plugin to be able to read the duration without requiring exclusive access to the file...

Spoiler:

calibre, version 5.34.0
ERROR: Unhandled exception: <b>PermissionError</b>:[Errno 13] File is open in another process: 'c:\\users\\USERNAME\\onedrive\\documents\\calibre library\\unknown\\age of darkness (3078)\\age of darkness - unknown.zip'

calibre 5.34 [64bit] embedded-python: True is64bit: True
Windows-10-10.0.22000 Windows ('64bit', 'WindowsPE')
('Windows', '10', '10.0.22000')
Python 3.8.5
Windows: ('10', '10.0.22000', '', 'Multiprocessor Free')
Interface language: None
Successfully initialized third party plugins: Gather KFX-ZIP (from KFX Input) (1, 46, 0) && DeDRM (10, 0, 2) && AZW6 Image Merge (1, 0, 0) && Package KFX (from KFX Input) (1, 46, 0) && AudioBook_Duration (1, 0, 7) && Category Tags (0, 1, 3) && Count Pages (1, 11, 1) && GetFileName (0, 1, 1) && Goodreads Sync (1, 15, 1) && KFX metadata reader (from KFX Input) (1, 46, 0) && KFX Input (1, 46, 0) && KePub Metadata Reader (3, 4, 3) && KePub Metadata Writer (3, 4, 3) && KePub Output (3, 5, 3) && KindleUnpack - The Plugin (0, 83, 0)
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "calibre\utils\filenames.py", line 358, in __init__
PermissionError: [WinError 32] The process cannot access the file because it is being used by another process: 'c:\\users\\USERNAME\\onedrive\\documents\\calibre library\\unknown\\age of darkness (3078)\\age of darkness - unknown.zip'

During handling of the above exception, another exception occurred:

Traceback (most recent call last):
File "calibre_plugins.AudioBook_Duration.main", line 240, in update_duration
File "calibre\db\legacy.py", line 581, in set_metadata
File "calibre\db\cache.py", line 75, in call_func_with_lock
File "calibre\db\cache.py", line 1425, in set_metadata
File "calibre\db\cache.py", line 1420, in set_field
File "calibre\db\cache.py", line 1220, in set_field
File "calibre\db\backend.py", line 1595, in windows_check_if_files_in_use
File "calibre\utils\filenames.py", line 382, in __init__
PermissionError: [Errno 13] File is open in another process: 'c:\\users\\USERNAME\\onedrive\\documents\\calibre library\\unknown\\age of darkness (3078)\\age of darkness - unknown.zip'

[silatiw]

Thank you for the new version with .zip file support. The plug works very well.
If I can, I have two small suggestions:
- if the book is longer than 24 hours, the result is presented e.g. 1day 3:22:45, in my opinion it should be 27:22:45
- could you please abbreviate the plugin name under the icon in the caliber menu. There is an 'AudioBook Duration plugin' probably better it will be: 'AudioBook Duration' Then the distance between the icons is smaller.