Weird things with chapters

[TDietrich99]

Okay, so i added a total of 113 Chapters (mp3). But now when i hit "start" or "chapters" there are suddenly 12k+ chapters which are just repetitions of chapters 1-113. this obviously results in audiobooks being way longer and bigger than needed. these "new" chapters also dont show up in the queue

this is the second audiobook i tried convert that way. the first worked like charm

edit: i also dont know where chapter 1 and 115 come from, i only imported 113 files

Version: 6.1.1 (portable)

[DrReddP]

I have what I think is a similar issue.. The book I'm doing has 117 chapters. It's putting the wrong audio with specific chapters. Like, I went to listen to it, and the first four chapters all had the proper titles, but they all had the audio from chapter 1. It didn't do this for every single chapter, but it did it for several.

I assumed I was trying to large of a batch, so I tried doing just a "part one" with only 13 chapters in it, and it did the exact same thing.

[yermak]

I will look into this in few days. As an option you could try different version, i.e. Latest 5.x.x to see if this regression or not, earlier i was able to convert book with more then 100 chapters... Or i will try in few days

[TDietrich99]

I have what I think is a similar issue.. The book I'm doing has 117 chapters. It's putting the wrong audio with specific chapters. Like, I went to listen to it, and the first four chapters all had the proper titles, but they all had the audio from chapter 1. It didn't do this for every single chapter, but it did it for several.

I assumed I was trying to large of a batch, so I tried doing just a "part one" with only 13 chapters in it, and it did the exact same thing.

i havent fixed it yet, but i found the issue at least. the mp3 files i was using were cut from a larger mp3 file, which apparently had chapter metadata. so the cut parts had this metadata as well, which ABC was reading it seems. so it essentially had data for ~100h worth of chapters in a ~10min file

i am sure there is a program out there, that can give you a metadata free mp3, as for ABC maybe it should check if the length of the file matches the data from the chapters itself, and if not offer to clear all of this metadatajunk

[DrReddP]

Again, it did the same thing when I tried it with only 13 chapters. Is there a quick and easy way to just strip the metadata?

[TDietrich99]

Again, it did the same thing when I tried it with only 13 chapters. Is there a quick and easy way to just strip the metadata?

maybe try ID3Kill?

[DrReddP]

I will look into this in few days. As an option you could try different version...

Yeah looks like 5.6.2 isn't having this issue, at least not with smaller books. edit- works on big ones too. My issue is fully resolved with the older version.

[yermak]

@TDietrich99 If you still have sample of mp3 with chapter meta data, could you please share with me by sending link to my_nick_name at gmail. chapters in mp3 are not very standard, i definitely could strip them off in the future.