Add audiobook support with TTS bridge and Audiobookshelf sync

[collaed]

Summary

Adds first-class audiobook support to Calibre, bridging the ebook and audiobook worlds with TTS conversion and Audiobookshelf server integration.

What this PR adds

1. Audio format recognition

• M4B, MP3, M4A, FLAC, OGG, OPUS added to BOOK_EXTENSIONS
• New AUDIOBOOK_EXTENSIONS constant in src/calibre/ebooks/__init__.py
• AudioBookMetadataReader plugin registered in builtins — reads metadata via ffprobe

2. Audio metadata extraction (src/calibre/ebooks/metadata/audio/)

• Reads title, author, narrator, series, publisher, description, language, ISBN, ASIN
• Extracts chapters with timestamps from ffprobe chapter data
• Extracts embedded cover art (JPEG/PNG)
• Reads audio-specific fields: duration, codec, channels, bitrate, sample rate
• Supports common audiobook tag conventions (composer=narrator, series-part, OverDrive markers)

3. Audio player widget (src/calibre/gui2/audiobook/)

• Built on Qt QMediaPlayer + QAudioOutput
• Transport controls: play/pause, ±30s skip, chapter prev/next
• Position slider with time display
• Chapter navigation with current chapter highlighting
• Speed control: 0.5× to 3.0× (9 presets)
• Volume control

4. Ebook → Audiobook TTS conversion (tts_bridge.py)

• Uses Calibre's existing Piper neural TTS engine (no new dependencies)
• Extracts text from any ebook format via the existing conversion pipeline
• Splits into chapters using regex pattern matching
• Generates MP3 per chapter via calibre_extensions.ffmpeg
• Adds resulting MP3 as a new format on the book record
• Chapter alignment utility for matching audio chapters to ebook TOC entries

5. Audiobookshelf API client (abs_client.py)

• Full REST client for Audiobookshelf servers
• Library browsing, item search, metadata fetch
• Playback session management (start/sync/close)
• Progress tracking (get/update per-item)
• Cover art and audio file download
• Bidirectional metadata conversion functions:
  • abs_item_to_calibre_metadata() — ABS item → Calibre Metadata
  • calibre_metadata_to_abs_match() — Calibre Metadata → ABS search params

6. Audiobookshelf sync dialog (abs_sync_dialog.py)

• Connect to ABS server with URL + API token
• Browse ABS libraries and items
• Import audiobooks into Calibre (metadata, covers, optionally audio files)
• Sync listening/reading progress bidirectionally
• Books matched by ISBN, ASIN, or audiobookshelf identifier

7. Toolbar action (gui2/actions/audiobook.py)

• "Audiobook" button with dropdown menu:
  • Play audiobook — opens audio player for selected book's audio format
  • Convert to audiobook (TTS) — background TTS conversion
  • Sync with Audiobookshelf — opens sync dialog

Architecture decisions

• No new dependencies: Uses ffprobe (already commonly available) for metadata, Calibre's built-in Piper TTS for synthesis, Calibre's ffmpeg C extension for transcoding, Qt's QMediaPlayer for playback, and stdlib urllib for the ABS API client.
• Plugin pattern: Follows Calibre's existing MetadataReaderPlugin and InterfaceActionBase patterns exactly.
• Audiobook-specific metadata (narrator, duration, chapters) stored as attributes on the Metadata object, compatible with custom columns and books_plugin_data.
• Inspired by audiobookshelf: The data model mapping, chapter handling, and progress tracking are designed to be compatible with ABS's API.

Files changed

File	Change
src/calibre/ebooks/__init__.py	Added audio formats to BOOK_EXTENSIONS, new AUDIOBOOK_EXTENSIONS
src/calibre/customize/builtins.py	Registered AudioBookMetadataReader and ActionAudiobook
src/calibre/ebooks/metadata/audio/__init__.py	New — Audio metadata reader via ffprobe
src/calibre/gui2/audiobook/__init__.py	New — Audio player widget
src/calibre/gui2/audiobook/tts_bridge.py	New — Ebook↔audiobook TTS conversion
src/calibre/gui2/audiobook/abs_client.py	New — Audiobookshelf REST API client
src/calibre/gui2/audiobook/abs_sync_dialog.py	New — ABS sync dialog
src/calibre/gui2/actions/audiobook.py	New — Toolbar action plugin

What was tested

• All new Python files pass py_compile syntax validation
• Module imports verified
• ffprobe-based metadata extraction tested against common tag formats

[kovidgoyal]

Before I look at actual code.

1. calibre cannot depend on external binaries like ffprobe. calibre
   already links against ffmpeg, so you can use that to read audio file
   metadata, rather than calling a binary.

2. What is audiobookshelf and why does calibre need to integrate with
   it? From a quick look it seems to be some kind of audiobook server?
   This IMO is better as a plugin. Incidentally there is already a plugin
   to read audiobook metadata.

3. This PR needs to be split into separate ones. In the first place,
   adding support for reading metadata. Then support for viewing/listening
   to audio files.

4. Viewing needs to be integrated into the existing view button. It
   should launch the audiobook viewing widget (in a separate process)
   if the format being viewed is an audio book. And such a viewing program
   would need support for typical audio book control like skipping to next
   chapter etc.

5. I dont really understand the use case for conversion. calibre already
   has tools to add tts narration to epub files, that has the advantage
   that the audio being read is accompanied by the corresponding text being
   highlighted on screen, a generally superior experience to a pure audio
   file.

[haounihao]

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