From b32247eff4c10a78c3a23efa509d4c6273590227 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Lucas Vivohost <lucas@vivohost.at>
Date: Mon, 14 Sep 2026 12:47:09 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] initial audiobook python script

intendet to relieve all metadata scripts
---
 audiobook_metadata/metadata_audiobooks.py | 60 +++++++++++++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 60 insertions(+)
 create mode 100644 audiobook_metadata/metadata_audiobooks.py

diff --git a/audiobook_metadata/metadata_audiobooks.py b/audiobook_metadata/metadata_audiobooks.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..d3e9f43
--- /dev/null
+++ b/audiobook_metadata/metadata_audiobooks.py
@@ -0,0 +1,60 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env python3
+
+import sys
+import subprocess
+from pathlib import Path
+
+
+ROOT = Path(sys.argv[1]) if len(sys.argv) > 1 else Path(".")
+
+audio_extensions = {
+    ".m4b",
+    ".m4a",
+    ".mp3",
+    ".flac",
+    ".ogg",
+}
+
+
+def get_metadata(field, file):
+    try:
+        result = subprocess.run(
+            ["kid3-cli", "-c", f"get {field}", str(file)],
+            stdout=subprocess.PIPE,
+            stderr=subprocess.DEVNULL,
+            text=True,
+        )
+        return result.stdout.strip()
+
+    except (OSError, subprocess.SubprocessError):
+        return ""
+
+
+# Include ROOT itself, matching find "$ROOT" -type d
+for directory in [ROOT] + [p for p in ROOT.rglob("*") if p.is_dir()]:
+    audio_files = sorted(
+        (
+            file
+            for file in directory.iterdir()
+            if file.is_file()
+            and file.suffix.lower() in audio_extensions
+        ),
+        key=lambda p: str(p),
+    )
+
+    if not audio_files:
+        continue
+
+    first_file = audio_files[0]
+
+    artist = get_metadata("artist", first_file)
+    album = get_metadata("album", first_file)
+    composer = get_metadata("composer", first_file)
+    comment = get_metadata("comment", first_file)
+
+    print("====≠===============================")
+    print(f"Folder: {directory.name}")
+    print(f"Album: {album}")
+    print(f"Artist: {artist}")
+    print(f"Narrator: {composer}")
+    print(f"Comment: {comment}")