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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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Cue sheets for reading metadata #243

Closed bibstha closed 8 months ago

bibstha commented 11 months ago

Is it possible to make a cue sheet parser as a way to read metadata?

I've got a cuesheet like this

TITLE "Book Name"
FILE "somefile.mp3" MP3
  TRACK 01 AUDIO
    TITLE "Introduction"
    INDEX 01 00:00
  TRACK 02 AUDIO
    TITLE "Chapter 1"
    INDEX 01 00:12
  TRACK 03 AUDIO
    TITLE "Chapter 2"
    INDEX 01 12:05

Would love to use this to extract chapter information instead of silence detection.

sandreas commented 11 months ago

m4b-tool already has a cue parser, but it currently supports only importing and splitting.

You could try to use (but backup your file before):

m4b-tool meta --import-cue-sheet="path-to-cuesheet.cue" "input.m4b"

I could integrate CueSheet into the merge command, detecting any cue files in the root dir of an audio book, should not be too much effort, here it is https://github.com/sandreas/m4b-tool/blob/ccfb548cda1bfc5f764771ca10d11ba153488476/src/library/Audio/CueSheet.php#L13

I'm not sure how long this will take, I'm totally busy atm, sorry.

sandreas commented 8 months ago

merge support will be in the next pre-release...