[Enhancement]: MusicBrainz Metadata

[Cwavs]

Type of Enhancement

Server Backend

Describe the Feature/Enhancement

Allow matching books to and pulling data down from MusicBrainz.

Why would this be helpful?

I understand this request may sound odd, but there is some logic behind me wanting this. I listen to Big Finish's audio drama's, and I recently set up audio bookshelf because Jellyfin's support for audio books is lacking. It works really well, however, sadly most of the metadata providers are pretty lacking in regards to Big Finish's catalogue. They all seem to have some of the early monthly adventures, however that's a pretty small amount of the whole Big Finish catalogue. MusicBrainz however, does include audio books, and has a pretty complete collection of the Big Finish library.

It would be quite helpful for me at the least if I could use MusicBrainz to get metadata for these dramas. I do appreciate this may be a niche feature though! It is worth mentioning MusicBrainz does have quite a few listing of other Audio Books too, not just Big Finish! See https://musicbrainz.org/release/3b9bdfdc-a3da-4868-a07a-440a24db457d

Future Implementation (Screenshot)

I can make a rough mock up if needed, but I'm not sure it is, I think it's implementation would be similar to other providers like Google Books.

Audiobookshelf Server Version

v2.19.5

Current Implementation (Screenshot)

The matching page:

[Vito0912]

For Big Finish, there is a custom metadata provider. See https://www.audiobookshelf.org/guides/custom-metadata-providers/#community-providers.

You can host it yourself or add https://provider.vito0912.de/bigfinish as a custom metadata provider. Note that the provided provider might be down sometimes. I don't use these myself and just host them on a remote server that I don't check very often.

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For other contributors, MusicBrainz has an API: https://musicbrainz.org/doc/MusicBrainz_API

[Cwavs]

Oh Wow I don't know how I missed that page! Thanks. I'll still leave this issue open for the time being, as I do think Music Brainz support could be beneficial for someone.

[nichwall]

There is an initial version for the provider here, but not sure if it's still accurate for the API.

https://github.com/advplyr/audiobookshelf/blob/master/server%2Fproviders%2FMusicBrainz.js