I use Bookplayer to listen to my audiobooks and import them into the app using Airdrop. If I have the epub or PDF version of the book, I’ll put a copy of that in the folder as well just to keep things together. If I need to group books together for a project or a deep dive of some sort, I will on occasion create a special subfolder-usually named which I’ll move the books in question. The top folder is “Audiobooks,” under which is a separate folder for each book, with the following naming convention for both book and folder:
I store all of my audiobooks on an external hard drive in a very thin Finder hierarchy. I use Mp3Tag to tag all of my audiobook files irrespective of source to make sure everything is correct and to ensure consistency when searching, sorting, and the like. (I currently purchase my audibooks from Libro.fm, which has its own pretty good audiobook player app but also allows you to download your books DRM-free.) (The Books app exists to sell you content, not help you manage your library, but I degress …)įirst of all, I make sure that everything that I’ve purchased has been stripped of its DRM, if any, has been converted to m4b format, and has been downloaded onto the external hard drive where I store my digital media. I have a huge library of audiobooks that I’ve built over the course of at least a decade and have been searching for the ideal solution to manage them ever since Apple tried to shoehorn audiobooks into its awful Books app. I use Auidobook Builder to tag the ripped CDs so the metadata is good but AUdiable files are a mess.ĭoes anyone with a large audiobook library have a better workflow / solution for managing & tagging their books. I still add audiobooks on a regular basis both from Audiable & ripping CDs from the local library. What I have been doing which is a hassle is copying the next 20 to so Audiobooks I want to listen to over to the books app so I can access it on my iPhone but I miss being able to get a full view of my Audiobook library like I was able to in iTunes on mojave and earlier. I have a gigantic Audiobook Library (About 1TB) that all still sits in my iTunes Media folder but I did not connect this folder to the Books App given the issues stated above.
When macOS went to Catalina and it split iTunes up (Finally) The Audiobook section in iTunes was moved to Books but even 3 years later Books lacks simple metadata editing features and is a huge pain when trying to deal with Audiobooks creating collections ETC.
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