[Bug]: iTunes match authors include & and not splitting correctly

[Hallo951]

Describe the issue

If I scrape an audiobook and the authors are not separated by a comma but by a & (e.g. Author1 & Author2), it does not recognize the individual authors and interprets the expression as 1 author. If they are separated by a comma the interpretation works correctly. I noticed this especially with the itune scrapper.

Steps to reproduce the issue

1. scrapping a audiobook with 2 autors ans the itune scrapper

Audiobookshelf version

current

How are you running audiobookshelf?

Docker

[advplyr]

Do you have an example book where the author is separated by &?

[Hallo951]

Here is an example:

[advplyr]

I don't think Audible or Google books formats their authors this way. With Audible/Google books they give us back an array of authors whereas iTunes gives us back one string with authors.
Were you able to come across this with Google books or Audible?

For iTunes I suppose we could add an additional step to split on the "&". Seems a bit scrappy though.

[advplyr]

I ended up just implementing the split on & for iTunes results. We'll see how that goes.

[Hallo951]

No, this does not apply in audible and google books. Everything works as it should. I only noticed this because I once did something with itunes and strange authors came out there.

Great, thank you very much. I still have a lot of audiobooks to scrap, so I'm happy to test that then. Can I download the new version somewhere?

[advplyr]

This will be in the next server release probably this weekend.

[advplyr]

Updated in v2.2.1