rotund surge
I am trying to add some audiobooks to MA through the Filesystem(remote share) provider. The files I want to add are audiobooks in m4a/m4b filetype, one file per book containing chapter information internally.
I got some of them to show up by adding a reference to a MusicBrainz release by updating the tags, but not all of the books can be found there. Is there any way to make those files available in MA?
Logging does not seem to give any information even when set to verbose.
Thanks!
runic carbon
Did you select the media type as audiobooks?
rotund surge
Yes, I added the provider twice, once for music ( which works perfectly) and once for audiobooks. I added 10 books to get started, and it picks up the ones completely tagged by MusicBrainz Picard. The other ones ( not in the MB database) are skipped although I did add as many tags as I could manually (with Picard).
runic carbon
Weird, mb tags are not a requirement, especially not for audiobooks. Did you try running the sync manually to see if that helps?
If still fails, can you share your logs after a sync attempt?
rotund surge
Thanks for confirming, I’ll dig some more and share the logs. A manual sync indeed does not get the files to appear. Any particular log, that needs to be set to a specific level for this?
runic carbon
Thanks for confirming, I’ll dig some more and share the logs. A manual sync inde...
just the default log settings should be fine
rotund surge
2025-12-07 21:04:58.606 DEBUG (MainThread) [music_assistant.filesystem_smb] Mounting //192.168.1.76/audiobooks to /tmp/filesystem_smb--CStSLyWE
2025-12-07 21:04:58.664 INFO (MainThread) [music_assistant] Loaded music provider Filesystem (remote share) [audiobooks]
2025-12-07 21:05:07.215 INFO (MainThread) [music_assistant.filesystem_smb] Started Library sync for Filesystem (remote share) [audiobooks]
2025-12-07 21:05:07.930 INFO (MainThread) [music_assistant.filesystem_smb] Library sync for Filesystem (remote share) [audiobooks] completed in 0.72 seconds
2025-12-07 21:05:07.933 INFO (MainThread) [music_assistant.music] Sync task for Filesystem (remote share) [audiobooks] completed
2025-12-07 21:05:07.934 DEBUG (MainThread) [music_assistant.music] Performing database cleanup...
2025-12-07 21:05:07.955 DEBUG (MainThread) [music_assistant.music] Database cleanup done
This seems to be all, with the filesystem music provider set to verbose mode, it actually mentions the files, but nothing else
runic carbon
So, and you can see the files being mentioned ?
What happens if you go to Browse --> filesystem entry for your audiobooks
rotund surge
In Browse —> filesystem I see the 6 files that I also see in the audiobook listing, with the title I gave it as Album tag. The other files are also bot showing up in the browse view. But yes I do see all the files being listed in the verbose logs:
2025-12-07 21:04:21.282 VERBOSE (ThreadPoolExecutor-0_12) [music_assistant.filesystem_smb] Processing: path/filename
can you give me an example of a file that gets skipped ?
rotund surge
Sure, I’ve sent you a message
rotund surge
Ok, I think I found it. The track number tag was not set to 1…
As these books are part of a series, one file per book, the track numbers where set to the book number in the seres
runic carbon
Ok, I think I found it. The track number tag was not set to 1…
hmmm that is weird. why would it fail on that. what was it set to before then ?