Could you indicate that this is primary Windows based?

[Tharic99]

This is a phenomenal guide you have here. Thank you so much for putting this all together and sharing it out. So as an Ubuntu user, this took me a moment to fully realize that mp3tag is only a Windows/Mac based app. So I had gone through reading in detail everything, formulated a plan of attack only to realize it wouldn't work for me as written.

I'm trying to see how far I can get using puddletag to do the same thing as mp3tag, but puddletag is new to me.

If anyone has any recommendations though, feel free to share them!

Thanks

[seanap]

puddletag supports using Mp3tag’s tag sources. To use them create the directory ~/.puddletag/mp3tag_sources and place any tag sources in there. If everything went okay, they’ll be loaded when you start puddletag. In the Tag Sources window they’ll be listed with ‘[M]’ appended to the filename.

Mp3tag can also be run with Wine on ubuntu.

[WeisseTeetasse]

So does this work on a headless linux server at all?

[seanap]

Plex, Plex Audiobook Agent, my little helper script, and booksonic all work on headless linux.

Mp3tag can work via CLI but it's windows. It looks like there may be a docker for Puddletag, not sure if that is able to be run in the Terminal. If you are able to get it to work let me know.

[pquodling]

I love the look of this, very thorough - but - I am running a mac (and several Raspberry pis) - no windows machines - so no mp3tag - apparently it can normally be run under Wine, but there is also a problem running Wine Apps under MAcos Catalina.

Other Options?

[seanap]

I don't have a mac to test anything, but if you can't get Wine to work, there's always VirtualBox

If you find a mac alternative let me know and I can add it.

[Diegus83]

For the mac users out there, there is a version of mp3tag here working under Wine and I had luck running it in macOS High Sierra. If you are running the latest macOS (Catalina) you are going to need a virtual machine with a supported OS.

As for the files you are suppose to replace, the path would be:
Right click on mp3tag.app, Show Contents

and then navigate to
/Contents/Resources/wineprefix/drive_c/users

[WeisseTeetasse]

So how integral is Mp3tag to the whole process. I am failing to understand the chain here. Will this still work without Mp3Tag?
What do i need to change for Puddletag?

[seanap]

I have a script written for Mp3tag (which should also work for Puddletag) that will scrape audible and tag your audiobooks in a standardized way that matches the Plex Audiobook Agent. There is also a custom action script I wrote to automatically move your audiobook files into the recommended folder structure. Without tagging your audiobooks the Agent has a hard time matching books. I suppose you could tag everything manually if you want, and rename folders by hand, but part of the reason for this guide is to take a 2+min manual tagging and Foldering process down to 10sec.

[marcodamm]

Works for me on Manjaro with Mp3tag on Wine. Thanks for all the work you put into this @seanap 👍

[Xirg]

Plex, Plex Audiobook Agent, my little helper script, and booksonic all work on headless linux.

Mp3tag can work via CLI but it's windows. It looks like there may be a docker for Puddletag, not sure if that is able to be run in the Terminal. If you are able to get it to work let me know.

i created a docker image for puddletag here: https://github.com/Xirg/docker-puddletag
But currently i cant get it to work with your MP3tag sources i suspect its because puddletag have been ported to python3 and the regexp function isn't working properly yet
feel free to fork and or copy the Dockerfile but bear with me, im fairly new to creating Dockerfiles

[Xirg]

And if theres any need i also did a docker image for mp3tag that should be working.

https://github.com/Xirg/docker-mp3tag

[seanap]

Rabelux added a note to the guide and until there's a cross platform app Xirg's mp3tag docker works for Linux, and either Wine or VirtualBox works for MacOS