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@orsolabs Hi. I've emailed you a link to a Google Drive file with three audiobooks with the stuck description field...
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@orsolabs@mastodon.social Hi. I've updated to the latest version of AudioBo, but I'm still having trouble overwriting the "Description" field in some files. I just can't seem to delete the blurb already present in the files...
@orsolabs@mastodon.social Another quick question. If I keep “improving” my audiobook files with AudioBo, does the file degrade every time I rebuild?
@orsolabs@mastodon.social Big AudioBo feature request: transcription-based track splitting! Send a chapter to Apple Intelligence for rough transcription, allow a user to select a point in the transcript to split the track, use some calculations to place the split mid-silence…
I’m imagining being able to split Chapter 1 between “This is Audible…” and the start of the actual book. It would also be good for older titles that just have terrible chapter splits…
@orsolabs@mastodon.social Are there any AudioBo updates in the pipeline?
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@orsolabs Maybe that’s it, but I’m not trying to delete info, I’m trying to replace it with something else. I’m going for consistency and filling the description field with the book title. For files that already have something in the description field, the changes do not stick. I’m doing something similar with other fields and they work fine — there seems to be a problem that particularly affects the description field…
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@orsolabs Still not working, I'm afraid. It's only with some books and only the Description field. I have three so far - I cmd-A to select all the text, delete it, replace it with the book title, "Save and close" the metadata window, then cmd-U to update the file. Changes don't stick and the original Description remains...
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@orsolabs Happy to share one of the books affected, but how do you want me to send it? I imagine it’s too big for email…
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@orsolabs Okay. I’ll send you a link tomorrow (I’m not at my computer right now).
I have another question, though. What’s the best way to deal with books where the chapter timestamps “drift”? I have a few books for which I have used the “Fetch metadata” option. It’s more or less fine, but the chapters aren’t quite right further into the book. It’s only a matter of a few seconds, but chapter breaks aren’t quite in the right place…
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@orsolabs I'm hoping for a fix for M4B books hanging when being rebuilt with a new chapter structure. There's also a thing where the "Description" field can't always be altered. Since discovering AudioBo, I'm determined to get my audiobooks looking right — they're a mess at the moment...