Parallel Audiobook Binder

This is a fully parallelized audiobook binder.

Features:

• Parallelized MP3 to M4B conversion
• Set chapters from either a CUE sheet or chapterized MP3 files
• Sort input files by ID3v2 track number if available, alphabetically if not

Installation

• Clone the repo
• Install requirements:

pip3 install -r requirments.txt

Running the program

Run binder.py using the following command:

python3 binder.py [-i INPUT] [-o OUTPUT] [-b BITRATE] -c {mp3files,cue,none} -t {mp3,m4b}

Arguments:

Argument	Description
-h, --help	Show list of arguments
-i INPUT, --input INPUT	Path to the input files (optional, default is current directory)
-o OUTPUT, --output OUTPUT	Path to the output file (optional, default is current directory)
-b BITRATE, --bitrate BITRATE	Bitrate of the output m4b file in kb/s (optional, default is 128k, use "-1" to get the same bitrate as the input mp3 files)
-c {mp3files,cue,none}, --chapters {mp3files,cue,none}	Set the source for chapter data. Use "mp3files" to use each mp3 file as a chapter, "cue" to get chapter data from a CUE sheet, "none" to not embed chapters (Required)
-t {mp3,m4b}, --filetype {mp3,m4b}	Audio filetype, mp3 or m4b (Required)

Dependencies

• Python 3
• pip3
• ffmpeg