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[Enhancement] Improved Folder Structure/Hierarchy for Downloaded Audiobooks

Open rechichidaniel opened this issue 10 months ago • 2 comments

Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe.

  • Authors with multiple book series have their books jumbled together.
  • Author/Title/<files> seems to be less organised and harder to navigate than Author/Series/Title/<files>.

Describe the solution you'd like

  • The option to use Author/Series/Title/<files>.
  • And, the option to use Author/Series/Title/Part/<files> for books that are sold in multiple parts (e.g. the larger Graphic Audio books, like anything from Brandon Sanderson).

Describe alternatives you've considered

  • I manually update the folder structure after downloading the audiobook using a 3rd party file manager, and then play the audiobook through a different app (also because I need other features)

References

  • This was mentioned in one of the comments on #194, but since it's not the top comment which can be supported with a thumbs up, I wanted to post a dedicated enhancement issue.

Side Note

Audiobookshelf is amazing and it solves so many problems! Really nice work! In case it matters, a Google search that led me to a Reddit post is how I found out about Audiobookshelf.

rechichidaniel avatar Apr 07 '24 07:04 rechichidaniel

I would add the request to be able to either use the original folder names for the downloaded folders, or a custom naming scheme where you can add the sequence number to the downloaded folder name.

(This is also to support using the books in other apps on the phone)

kuldan5853 avatar May 15 '24 21:05 kuldan5853

As a new user I'm also in agreement about needing some flexibility in the downloaded file structure. As I use Smart Audio Player on android, my prefered format to keep things clean is either '[Author]/[Series]/[Book #] - [Title]' or just '[Author] - [Series]/[Book #] - [Title]'. If we could do some basic download structure building (Either a format string or blocks) or at least had a couple choices for greater compatibility that'd be great. It stripping the book number from the download causes me headaches when trying to download a whole series to go through especially.

ProfessorDey avatar Jun 28 '24 20:06 ProfessorDey