Application or program to catalogue audio books?

[Baldbloke]

Been a member of Audible for a long time. In excess of ten years. Just checked my Audible library. It appears I have accumulated over 600 Audible titles.
Now, if they were all full price at 8 quid a pop, that'd be just short of £4800 on audiobooks. Yeesh!
They weren't all full price though. Some were daily deals at 2 or 3 quid a go, some in the 2 for 1 sales, some included (free) with premium membership. And, in case some folks aren't aware, Audible also do a 24 book membership deal for £109. But they tend not to advertise this too much. But that 24 book membership brings a book purchase down to around £4.50 a pop. So I've probably paid around 2400/£2500.

Anyhoo, I must have a load of titles I will be interested in but forgot I purchased, either haven't read or not got around to finishing.
Audible app lets me sort titles in to those I have finished, some not started, some partly finished.
But the Audible library user interface is a bit basic. Fine, but that's about it.
It seems a bit limited as an organiser. Is there any App or program out ther for PC which can help me organise audiobooks a bit better? Something with a bit of a better interface that lets me view synopsis and maybe other useful data and such? Something that can import the AAX format that Audible use.

I've heard about OpenAudible. Is it any good? Any others to consider?

Thank you.

 

[dlockers]

No idea Baldbloke but what a fabulous hobby you have. I wish I had the patience to read more/listen to more audio books.

 

[Baldbloke]

No idea Baldbloke but what a fabulous hobby you have. I wish I had the patience to read more/listen to more audio books.

My job includes driving roughly 700 to a thousand miles a week. Audiobooks are a great way to enjoy all that time driving. If I get engrossed in a good book a 3 hour journey seems to zip by in no time at all.

 

[Flibster]

I've used InAudible to do that. I keep the AAX and M4B files in the same folders. Used for different devices.

Currently sitting at 1280 titles. I also don't like to think about how much I've spent on that...

 

[Diddums]

A bit off topic, but do you check HUKD for deals on these? I see then pop up quite often. If you've read on Kindle then there are literally dozens of books free every week.

I never read books because I never finish anyth


My wife loves them though.

 

[Baldbloke]

I've used InAudible to do that. I keep the AAX and M4B files in the same folders. Used for different devices.

Currently sitting at 1280 titles. I also don't like to think about how much I've spent on that...

1280 titles. Yikes
Hadn't heard of Inaudible (Pun intended) .I'll have a look at it. Thanks. Open source too by the looks of it. Free to try, then. as opposed to £21 for Openaudible which is limited to 1 year updates.

 

[GGizmo]

Audiobooks are a good thing.

There seems to be very few cataloguing programs around, even though lots of people over the years have asked for one.

 

[leezer3]

JRiver Media Center

A Windows media player for HTPC's

jriver.com

Nothing comes anywhere close.

It'll take work to add the custom tags and setup views to your tastes, but it's the *only* media management software you'll ever need.
Never come across anything else that will handle 500,000+ files (audio, video images and other junk)

 

[Flibster]

1280 titles. Yikes
Hadn't heard of Inaudible (Pun intended) .I'll have a look at it. Thanks. Open source too by the looks of it. Free to try, then. as opposed to £21 for Openaudible which is limited to 1 year updates.

Lots of complete series of books, radio show collections and the like. Really got into RPGLit and GameLit recently and got more than a few of those. Used to average 12-14 hours of listening a day Now down to around 6-8.
Makes so much sense to have offline copies. Especially when some of the versions of books I've got have already been removed from Audible. Still allowed to download them but, who knows when that'll stop.

Always go for M4b, effectively lossless conversion.

JRiver Media Center

A Windows media player for HTPC's

jriver.com

Nothing comes anywhere close.

It'll take work to add the custom tags and setup views to your tastes, but it's the *only* media management software you'll ever need.
Never come across anything else that will handle 500,000+ files (audio, video images and other junk)

Doesn't support AAX natively, only the lower quality AA.

 

[Baldbloke]

JRiver Media Center

A Windows media player for HTPC's

jriver.com

Nothing comes anywhere close.

It'll take work to add the custom tags and setup views to your tastes, but it's the *only* media management software you'll ever need.
Never come across anything else that will handle 500,000+ files (audio, video images and other junk)

That sounds like it is very good. But AAX is a must for me. Won't stop me having a look at it though. Thank you.

Lots of complete series of books, radio show collections and the like. Really got into RPGLit and GameLit recently and got more than a few of those. Used to average 12-14 hours of listening a day Now down to around 6-8.
Makes so much sense to have offline copies. Especially when some of the versions of books I've got have already been removed from Audible. Still allowed to download them but, who knows when that'll stop.

Always go for M4b, effectively lossless conversion.

Doesn't support AAX natively, only the lower quality AA.

Thats a pity, Jriver sounded promising. AA would have been fine for me. I don't really need high quality audio. However if I'm not mistaken AA is no longer an option with Audible. They now only offer AAX downloads I believe.

 

[Flibster]

Thats a pity, Jriver sounded promising. AA would have been fine for me. I don't really need high quality audio. However if I'm not mistaken AA is no longer an option with Audible. They now only offer AAX downloads I believe.

Interesting. Not noticed that. Been using AAX since it was released. Seems like you can get the lower quality files on the mobile app, but not the web site. Considering that some media players don't support the AAX format, making it unavailable on the web page is a bit irritating for some people.

 

[cryptog]

OpenAudible is great for automating the downloading and conversion of all your audible files. Its fast, multi-platform and is updated frequently and just works well out of the box. I also have 600+ audiobooks and download and conversion took less than a day with concurrent downloads/conversions. (converting to m4b is fastest and gives the best quality--converting to mp3 will be slower and add some "loss".)

For viewing your library and adding additional titles, the best option I've found so far is AudioBookshelf which produces a pretty web layout. For my iOS, I like the open source BookPlayer.

There are some free windows options for audible download/convert, such as Libation and InAudible, but I haven't used them.

 

[Baldbloke]

Interesting. Not noticed that. Been using AAX since it was released. Seems like you can get the lower quality files on the mobile app, but not the web site. Considering that some media players don't support the AAX format, making it unavailable on the web page is a bit irritating for some people.

@Flibster. I stand corrected. I've just this minute found an option in the Audible PC app (settings/downloads) that allows for lower quality/mono downloads. They are still in AAX though.

 

[Baldbloke]

OpenAudible is great for automating the downloading and conversion of all your audible files. Its fast, multi-platform and is updated frequently and just works well out of the box. I also have 600+ audiobooks and download and conversion took less than a day with concurrent downloads/conversions. (converting to m4b is fastest and gives the best quality--converting to mp3 will be slower and add some "loss".)

For viewing your library and adding additional titles, the best option I've found so far is AudioBookshelf which produces a pretty web layout. For my iOS, I like the open source BookPlayer.

There are some free windows options for audible download/convert, such as Libation and InAudible, but I haven't used them.

Thank you cryptog and welcome to the forum.
I've just had a quick look at AudioBookshelf. I'm thinking "ooh, err. That looks a bit technical to install". Lazy old me though. Too used to the modern one click installers these days.

I'll check out some youtube videos on Audiobookshelf to see what it offers. If it looks promising I'll put my brain in gear and maybe give the install a whirl.

 

[BigBoy]

I have the best part of 12000 books in m4a/b and MP3 format stored on my server, if your looking for a catalogue sort and search program take a look at Readarr, for playback I use Plex Media server with an audionexus plugin to help it identify the books better (audible scrubber for content), on Android I use Chronicle Audiobook Player (pro features unlocked) as it allows download for offline playback. I get through 3-5 books a week when working solo, Audible is great but having the files at my disposal when I want them is amazing!

 

[Feek]

Audible is great but I cancelled it when I stopped my daily commute because I found I just wasn’t listening to the books I bought each month. That was about five years ago and I still haven’t finished the last ones I got.

I only have around 170 books in my account but this thread has made me think that I really ought to download local copies of them all, just in case. It’s been a great reminder, thank you.