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Thanks for the info. Sounds promising! I will check it out.
I was pleasantly surprised at how quickly and easily this browser extension provides comprehensive and flexible control over my entire Audible Library. Anyone who has been frustrated with the fixed and limited features of the Audible website should give this a try.
Wow, this is very cool, thanks for sharing! The filter and sort function is awesome! Fun to see my books sorted by narrator, to see who I listen to the most... turns out to be Scott Brick and Wil Wheaton :)
I think my Audible library is too big for it. I installed the Firefox version and got it started with the extracting process, but it has hung at 1447 books. I've got more than 2000 in that library.Dangit.
Contrarius wrote: "I think my Audible library is too big for it. I installed the Firefox version and got it started with the extracting process, but it has hung at 1447 books. I've got more than 2000 in that library...."Ours is 2434 and it coped. However it also failed at around 1500 and I wrote to the developer and he brought out version 2.6 that worked. Make sure you are using that version. If you are and still failing then write to the developer. I found him responsive and supportive.
Alex wrote: "Ours is 2434 and it coped. However it also failed at around 1500 and I wrote to the developer and he brought out version 2.6 that worked. Make sure you are using that version. If you are and still failing then write to the developer. I found him responsive and supportive."Thanks for the info!
I've tried multiple times, but my attempts have been complicated by things like a very slow connection and me forgetting and closing the laptop mid-attempt and things like that. Right now it's the "fetching additional data" stage that is failing. I'm trying again -- Stay Tuned.
It worked! It worked! It finally worked! Yippee!My top five narrators:
Grover Gardner -- 41 books
Simon Vance -- 39
Kate Reading -- 36
Macleod Andrews -- 29
Tim Gerard Reynolds and George Guidall tied -- 28 each
Phil wrote: "...Anyone who has been frustrated with the fixed and limited features of the Audible website should give this a try."The gallery page you get after extracting can also be saved locally (link to docs), uploaded online (this is my library), and used alongside Audible's mobile app. The "open in app" icon and "my books in the series" list are probably my most used features on mobile. Unfortunately uploading it online is not a one click process, but it's also not incredibly complex and I've written step by step instructions that should be easy enough to follow.
Few more things I want to mention... You can also save the extracted data as a CSV file, which you can import to a spreadsheet application, if the spreadsheet view in the gallery isn't quite enough. Also, the CSV file can be imported to Goodreads as long as you extract ISBNs.
If you extract your wishlist, the sub pages can show contents from there too so you can for example view wishlist contents by categories. Lastly you can filter wishlist to show books that are in the Audible Plus catalog.
P.S. I'm the developer of the extension, so consider this a shameless advertisement.
I would love it if this extension also worked for items in the Wish List. That way I can sort and prioritize by pre-order, whether the audiobook is available at my library, etc., and include some notes.
Julesy wrote: "I would love it if this extension also worked for items in the Wish List. That way I can sort and prioritize by pre-order, whether the audiobook is available at my library, etc., and include some n..."It does have a wishlist export but it doesn't work right now because of some recent changes on the Audible website. Wishlist got the same layout facelift as library got July 2020. So as a result the extension can't find any wishlist data in any of the released versions. The wishlist extraction will be fixed in the next release (v.0.2.9), whenever that comes out.
There is no sorting for books you've pre-ordered or books that can be pre-ordered, though it can be sorted by the release date just like on the website, but that brings up a good point as well, which is that if the only thing you want from the wishlist is the same release date sorting that the website already has, then I'm not so sure you need the extension, because the website already offers that. Like I said, this wishlist extraction issue will be fixed, but I just don't want you to wait for it and think it's going to offer anything more than what the wishlist on the website already does in regards to keeping track of pre-orders.
The idea of adding notes is a little bit vague, but something like that (I believe) has been suggested before. I've avoided anything that would require storing user generated data that is created outside of Audible because I feel like it can't be done in a way that I can guarantee users retain that data forever. The way the extension works is that Audible stores your data and the extension just retrieves that data onto your hard drive and presents it in a different way adding new things like more sorters and filters and things here and there, but all the data that makes it possible comes from Audible. Let's pretend the extension gallery did allow you to add notes and you spend like a year adding notes to the 500 books in your library or the wishlist and then your computer dies, or you need to reinstall Chrome or something... Well, there goes all that work down the drain, whereas everything else that the extension extracts... It is also able to extract over and over from Audible as long as they don't remove the data or something. It's not that it couldn't be done, but I just don't feel super comfortable with it. Though if I had a truckload of users telling me they understand the risks and want it anyway, I could get on board with it.
Joonas, THANK YOU for this great browser extension! I look forward to the wishlist working in the next version. How can we help you continue to develop this extension?
Feedback and contructive criticism is probably the best way to support it :) As a general reminder to people... Even if I don't agree with some ideas, all suggestions become more appealing the more people demand it.
Thank you for creating this extension. It is so helpful. I am having issues with a few of the fields and am hoping you can help. If this is not the correct format to ask for help, can you please let me know of another way? Book Numbers displays as àû
Authors - blank
Narrators - blank
Isbn 10 - blank
Isbn 13 - blank
Thanks, I’m aware of the issue with authors, narrators, and series numbers. You can track the issue here. I’ve added there some info about ”my books in the series” list, which still has regular numbers (as those are scraped separately as a backup. Of course if you’re wanting to export a CSV, that bit wont help much. Either way, for all 3 to be fixed you need to wait for the next release, which I’m trying to push out as soon as possible.
As for the ISNB, my knee jerk reaction is that perhaps it’s just a matter of going through the extraction process again and checking the ”ISBN” checkbox above the big blue ”Extract Selection” button, before you start the extraction, since it's not on by default. But I will take a look at this in case there’s a problem there as well.
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