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sandreas / m4b-tool

m4b-tool is a command line utility to merge, split and chapterize audiobook files such as mp3, ogg, flac, m4a or m4b
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MP3s merged in wrong order in final M4B #214

Closed majant0 closed 1 year ago

majant0 commented 1 year ago

I'm following the same process that I referenced in #212 where I use Audacity to split my single MP3 into one MP3 per chapter. I also used Audacity to ensure the files were properly tagged with Album, Track, Title, & Artist. After using the merge command, my final M4B is out of order. It placed the Intro at the end (the rest of the chapters were in correct order). Does m4b-tool use the track tag to determine the order of the MP3s?

Here was the command I used: m4b-tool merge "Audiobook/" -v --output-file="Audiobook.m4b"

Here is an abbreviated mediainfo for a the first two chapters:

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sandreas commented 1 year ago

Does m4b-tool use the track tag to determine the order of the MP3s?

no, filenames in natural order. never had a case that did not work

sandreas commented 1 year ago

So I tried to reproduce this and failed. If you don't want to publish the filenames you used, I could give you an invite to a private repository, where you can share the files privately. Unfortunately I don't see another option to reproduce this issue.

What do you think?

majant0 commented 1 year ago

No worries. I'll just append the track number to the start of the filename.

sandreas commented 1 year ago

@majant0 Ok, if this is ok... maybe the issue re-appears on someone else's files. We'll see. Thanks for closing and your patience.