The Apothecary Diaries v01-02 [Audiobook] [Tantor Media] [Stick & Oak]

I have been reworking my whole audiobook library and this is one of the reworked series, I plan to do a full batch once it is ready, fully redone metadata and all.

• These audiobooks are set with over 22 metadata tags for various applications.
• The audible intro and outro brandings are trimmed, and chapters are all retimed to start ~250ms before any speech to give some breathing (buffering) room.
• The covers are all processed (denoised and saved as q90 jpeg) from the highest possible quality source; RBmedia > Apple Books (non PNG) > Audible.

1. Why the root folder audio-books-cjk?

• This is my root folder for AudioBookShelf for CJK related audiobooks and will also be used for the full ABS rework batch I am working on so you can help seeding or easily build your own ABS library!

2. What is with the folder structure?

• This is an AudioBookShelf compatible folder structure if one would not rely on embedded metadata, ready for a direct drop in!

3. Why are some series that have a subtitles cut short on the audiobook folder?

• This is to keep folder paths shorter, and to avoid confusion when you have enabled 'Parse subtitles' in AudioBookShelf as some books will have individual subtitles set on the folder!

4. What is with the added metadata files?

• They are used to supplement the embedded audiobook metadata for AudioBookShelf (json and/or opf) or Calibre (opf).

5. Why replace PZG or Troglodyte audiobooks?

• There is no real difference other than me knowing the ripping method and source (ASIN) used for accurate chapter retiming and Audible brand trimming!
• I do use PZG's set chapter titles in some instances where external sources do not have them, so I want to acknowledge them for their previous tremendous work on those!

6. I have issues with some of the long paths on Windows

• Try enabling long paths in Windows, if you do not know how, just ask Google AI.
• An alternative is to rename the book folder to something shorter, like; 01 - Volume 1 - subtitle {narrator} or Volume 01 - subtitle {narrator}

7. I do not like the folder structure, I just want to have all audiobooks of a series in a single folder!

• Well, can't make everyone happy, but this is relatively easy to script as the folder structure is consistent, the other way around not so much!