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[Enhancement]: Download all files for an audiobook.
Describe the feature/enhancement
[Enhancement]: Download all files for an audiobook. Right now I can only download every single file separately. So for audiobook which have 100 mp3 files, it is difficult to do.
You used to be able to download a zip of the entire directory, but that is slightly different than getting all the mp3 files at once. In case you need something to help with this right now, here's what I do: I convert the separate mp3 files into one, single M4B file which supports chapters and several other nice-to-haves.
This conversion feature is already part of the "Experimental" settings which can be enabled at the bottom of the "settings" page:
then:
Then go into any book's edit menu:
And now you can access the "Manage" tab that has this feature.
I actually just submitted an enhancement suggestion to make this feature even easier to use. https://github.com/advplyr/audiobookshelf/issues/594
What do you think? Would this help so you only ever have to download one file ever? It's helped me a LOT! Hopefully, if can help you too.
Yes I know about m4b, but it takes too much cpu usage, takes a lot of time and is unnecessary if I only need files. Probably creating archive file is needed. Why I need this ? For kids audiobook toys. You have to put audiobooks via cable to the toy.
it takes too much cpu usage, takes a lot of time and is unnecessary if I only need file
how many titles are you talking about? for a number of reasons, my collection management has benefited greatly by transcoding all mp3s into m4b. it takes a little cpu time, but only once.
6,1 TB of mp3 , around 450 000 mp3. I'm not ready yet to convert and if i will be it will take a lot of time.
This is definitely a feature that I would like to see come back. I'd ditch booksonic completely if this was available again.
I made this a download button that will download a zip of the entire item folder. It will only show if the user has download permission.
