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Add Audiobooks & Authors #453

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lincalinca opened this issue Aug 17, 2018 · 28 comments
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Add Audiobooks & Authors #453

lincalinca opened this issue Aug 17, 2018 · 28 comments
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Priority: Low Issue does not affect Radarr functionality in a serious way. Type: Enhancement Current situation is suboptimal and could use improvement.

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@lincalinca
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I've tried adding authors like George R. R. Martin and Douglas Adams as audiobook authors, and Lidarr picks up on them just fine.

But what I can't seem to do is to create profiles for Audiobooks. It's fine to capture author information from Musicbrains, but the works themselves are in profile categories which Lidarr doesn't let me set up.

Can you please enable access to collect Audiobook data? I'd like to hook in my Witcher, Harry Potter and Oathbringer books too.

Note: there are some musicians who've written books too. I realise this may complicate things, such as separating the destination directories (personally, I have one place for audiobooks, and another for music, and would like to keep the Sara Bareilles book separate from her albums, so I know that's a complexity, but one I can overcome secondarily).
@Qstick Qstick self-assigned this Aug 18, 2018
@Qstick Qstick added Type: Enhancement Current situation is suboptimal and could use improvement. Priority: Low Issue does not affect Radarr functionality in a serious way. Status: Accepted Issue or PR is Accepted labels Aug 18, 2018
@Qstick Qstick added this to the v0.4.0 milestone Aug 18, 2018
@Qstick Qstick modified the milestones: v0.4.0, v0.5.0 Sep 5, 2018
@kianrafiee
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I would love this too!

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Qstick commented Sep 28, 2018

So I can easily add the audiobook type to Lidarr for availability in metadata profiles, but this issue I have is in parsing and identification. Most audiobooks on musicbrainz seem to have several 100 tracks per book. I’m fearful this isn’t going to work to well without some extra type specific code. Any thoughts from you guys? How do most audiobooks download? A single audio file or many files?

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lincalinca commented Sep 28, 2018 via email

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Qstick commented Sep 28, 2018

Thanks, what are the best indexers for audiobooks? I’d like to test some things out

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lincalinca commented Sep 28, 2018 via email

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lincalinca commented Sep 28, 2018 via email

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Qstick commented Sep 28, 2018

Yea I was just looking for one or two good ones lol

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lincalinca commented Sep 28, 2018 via email

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MyAnonaMouse ;)

@Qstick Qstick removed this from the v0.5.0 milestone Nov 15, 2018
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jneljeff commented Dec 3, 2018

Is this still an active feature request? I have been looking for an audiobook fetcher forever.

@kevinpawsey
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Is this still an active feature request? I have been looking for an audiobook fetcher forever.

try LazyLibrarian for audiobook downloads if Lidarr doesn’t have support at the moment... it is based on Headphones and works well for me

@Qstick Qstick added Status: Under Consideration and removed Status: Accepted Issue or PR is Accepted labels Dec 6, 2018
@kianrafiee
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Is this still an active feature request? I have been looking for an audiobook fetcher forever.

try LazyLibrarian for audiobook downloads if Lidarr doesn’t have support at the moment... it is based on Headphones and works well for me

Its disappointing the status for this changed from Accepted to Under Consideration because LazyLibrarian has such a horrible UX design :( It got so bad for me that I just gave up using it because of how frustrated I got trying to navigate, find books, and download them.

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kmlucy commented Dec 21, 2018

If this ever happens, it would be great if they could integrate sandreas/m4b-tool or something like it.

@PhilipWhiteside
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Is this still an active feature request? I have been looking for an audiobook fetcher forever.

try LazyLibrarian for audiobook downloads if Lidarr doesn’t have support at the moment... it is based on Headphones and works well for me

Its disappointing the status for this changed from Accepted to Under Consideration because LazyLibrarian has such a horrible UX design :( It got so bad for me that I just gave up using it because of how frustrated I got trying to navigate, find books, and download them.

Me: LL can't be that bad.
... spins up container ...
Me: OMG it's awful.

  • Couldn't even find the add button, so linked to Goodreads instead.
  • Then it just wouldn't download the book, despite Jackett finding a match, LL said there was no matches.
  • Have killed it now, will stick to manual until Lidarr has support.

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lincalinca commented Dec 30, 2018 via email

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I'd like to add my vote to this one as well. The alternatives are just not very good in comparison.

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Qstick commented Jun 6, 2019

I'm not sure that Lidarr is the best candidate for this. I would think a separate arr fork for ebooks and audiobooks that could focus specific on that would be best. Besides musicbrainz isn't the best source for audiobook info I don't think.

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I'm not sure that Lidarr is the best candidate for this. I would think a separate arr fork for ebooks and audiobooks that could focus specific on that would be best. Besides musicbrainz isn't the best source for audiobook info I don't think.

Awesomefox made a good case for using Audible in the original feature request:

https://feathub.com/lidarr/Lidarr/+22

Also, as a MaM member it would be great to integrate their FL Wedges as suggested by seanap

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Besides musicbrainz isn't the best source for audiobook info I don't think.

That can be improved, to be fair. MB has support for both audiobooks and audio dramas, it's just the catalogue that needs additions.

It's also worth mentioning that audio dramas are also worth separate consideration when designing the UI - they can have a lot of artists. In addition to that unlike many other types of media, there are many audio dramas that have multiple series and subseries (for example Big Finish Audiobooks -> Doctor Who: The Monthly Adventures -> Doctor Who: The Classic Series -> Doctor Who: The Sirens of Time) and support of that is quite important for comfortable consumption.

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Qstick commented Aug 25, 2019

For now, not going to implement. Try Readarr

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undaunt commented Jan 6, 2020

Readarr has been marked as inactive by its developer.

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Qstick commented Jan 6, 2020

That's unfortunate, we thought about taking over if he did that, but we are spread thin with Radarr and Lidarr already.

@hongkongkiwi
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Please please work on that project, there is unfortunately no solution for audiobooks. I would love to get it now that we have decent client apps for plex to support the streaming.

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kevinpawsey commented May 10, 2020 via email

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hongkongkiwi commented May 10, 2020 •
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Last time I tried this it was horribly broken and didn't really work at all.

Readarr was exactly what I was looking for.

I just want something to keep track of audiobooks and download new ones from my favourite authors.

I'll give LazyLibrarian try again, maybe it has improved, but it wasn't really a good solution in the way that projects such as Lidarr is.

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Qstick commented May 10, 2020

We have started Readarr back up and are actively developing it at Readarr/Readarr on GitHub.

@hongkongkiwi
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That's great news! Looking forward to testing it.

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Is there a docker image?

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