I am working on importing my existing library that is in Audiobookshelf into Listenarr and I have noticed that if the naming path of a book does not match Listenarr's expected path, it overwrites the path for the imported audiobook, this causes the book to move immediately into the "Wanted" list when added as the audio file(s) cannot be found at the book's path.
Example:
I have the Murderbot Diaries series and I currently have the path setup as "Martha Wells/The Murderbot Diaries/Artificial Condition/Artificial Condition.m4b" for one of the books. Listenarr expects the name of the series to be "Murderbot Diaries" and not "The Murderbot Diaries", so even though I matched the existing file with the book and imported it. It immediately cannot find the book because it did not use the existing path to the book and overwrote it with its expectation of the book's path.
While importing
Book immediately after importing
This is causing me to have to go in and manually update the path for books that I import that happen to not match Listenarr's expected path.
Separate note for a separate ticket: Updating a path is PAINFUL compared to other *arr apps like Sonarr or Radarr.
I am working on importing my existing library that is in Audiobookshelf into Listenarr and I have noticed that if the naming path of a book does not match Listenarr's expected path, it overwrites the path for the imported audiobook, this causes the book to move immediately into the "Wanted" list when added as the audio file(s) cannot be found at the book's path.
Example:
I have the Murderbot Diaries series and I currently have the path setup as "Martha Wells/The Murderbot Diaries/Artificial Condition/Artificial Condition.m4b" for one of the books. Listenarr expects the name of the series to be "Murderbot Diaries" and not "The Murderbot Diaries", so even though I matched the existing file with the book and imported it. It immediately cannot find the book because it did not use the existing path to the book and overwrote it with its expectation of the book's path.
While importing
Book immediately after importing
This is causing me to have to go in and manually update the path for books that I import that happen to not match Listenarr's expected path.
Separate note for a separate ticket: Updating a path is PAINFUL compared to other *arr apps like Sonarr or Radarr.