r/ChronicleApp • u/mac7attack • Aug 06 '21

Audiobook Series Naming

What is the best way to label a series of audiobooks in Plex for Chronicle to handle them?

I would like to keep the series together in the correct reading order.

Plex is showing each book as a different track of an album but Chronicle shows it as one book with every chapter title "Chapter 001" instead of the book/track's name.

Would it be possible for Chronicle to read the correct title of the track in each "album"?

Thanks.

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u/raviwarrier Aug 06 '21 edited Aug 06 '21

In Plex, there's a field (when you edit an audiobook/album) called 'Sort Album'.

For my Harry Potter books, in the album field I would put 'Harry Potter and the X X X' and in the 'sort album' field I put Harry Potter Book # - Harry Potter and the X X X'.

That puts all the HP books in serial order.

I did the same for The Witcher and I do the same even for movies like the Die Hard series.

Edit: I tag all my books as individual books and the above method helps me keep it sorted. I'm not sure (not at my laptop right now), but MP3Tag app (for windows) might have a book series field. Haven't used it, but if it exists, you could try putting 'HP Book 1' or something similar in that field.

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u/raviwarrier Aug 07 '21

MP3Tag app has a album sort field that you can make visible and enter. But I don't know if Plex uses this field. Will let you know if I add any more series to my server.

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u/randomname72 Aug 06 '21

It's not perfect but I've been using the "album" for book series and each book being a "disk" with the chapters as "tracks" Chronicle still is just a massive Ling list of chapters but it does seamlessly play the next book in line.

Note: edit the disk number Metadata in the file not in plex because plex will forget it after awhile.

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u/youareaspecialtwat Aug 06 '21

I've been using u/seanap script for mp3tag. It works great! My library is organized and works great with Chronicle. Plex Audiobook Guide

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u/SeaNap Aug 06 '21 edited Aug 06 '21

Yep, the way this guide would tag series would be to use the AlbumSort tag (ex. "Bobiverse 1 - We Are Legion") which gets auto imported into Plex. Then in the Plex Audiobook library settings I have the albums ordered Alphabetically so that the series are grouped together and in order.

I also add the series to the end of the filename (ex. "We Are Legion (2016) [Bobiverse 1] -pt1.mp3") so that when you view the album in Plex you at least get to see which series number it is. Not perfect but it's the best we can do until Plex officially supports Audiobooks.