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Bragibooks

An audiobook library cleanup & management app, written as a frontend for web use of m4b-merge.

📝 Table of Contents

• About
• Getting Started
• Usage
• Built Using
• Contributing
• Authors
• Acknowledgments

🧐 About

Bragi - (god of poetry in Norse mythology): Bragibooks provides a minimal and straightforward webserver that you can run remotely or locally on your server. Since Bragibooks runs in a docker, you no longer need to install dependencies on whichever OS you are on. You can

Some basics of what Bragi does:

• Merge multiple files
• Convert mp3(s)
• Cleanup existing data on an m4b file
• More features on m4b-merge's help page

Screens

Folder/file selection	ASIN input

Folder/file selection	Post-proccess overview

🏁 Getting Started

You can either install this project directly or run it prepackaged in Docker.

Prerequisites

Docker

• All prerequisites are included in the image.

Direct (Gunicorn)

• You'll need to install m4b-tool and it's dependants from the project's readme
• Run pip install -r requirements.txt from this project's directory.

Installing

Docker

To run Bragibooks as a container, you need to pass some paramaters in the run command:

Which all together should look like:

docker run --rm -d --name bragibooks -v /path/to/input:/input -v /path/to/output:/output -v /appdata/bragibooks/config:/config -p 8000:8000/tcp -e LOG_LEVEL=WARNING ghcr.io/djdembeck/bragibooks:main

Direct (Gunicorn)

• Copy static assets to project folder:

  python manage.py collectstatic
  

• Create the database:

  python manage.py migrate
  

• Run the web server:

  gunicorn bragibooks_proj.wsgi \
  --bind 0.0.0.0:8000 \
  --timeout 1200 \
  --worker-tmp-dir /dev/shm \
  --workers=2 \
  --threads=4 \
  --worker-class=gthread \
  --reload \
  --enable-stdio-inheritance
  

🎈 Usage

The Bragibooks process is a linear, 3 step process:

1. Select input - Use the file multi-select box to choose which books to process this session, and click next.
2. Submit ASINs - Enter the 10-character ASIN for each book, found on Audible.com (US only) and submit.
3. Wait for books to finish processing. This can take anywhere from 10 seconds to a few hours, depending on the number and type of files submitted.
4. Finish page - Page where you can see the data assigned to each book after it has finished processing.

⛏️ Built Using

• Django - Server/web framework
• Bulma - Frontend CSS framework
• audnexus - API backend for metadata
• m4b-merge - File merging and tagging

✍️ Authors

• @djdembeck - Idea & Initial work

🎉 Acknowledgements

• sandreas for creating and maintaining m4b-tool