Thanks you for explaing that to me!

A am still newish to Linux and sometimes don't really understand what i am looking at or know the right commands.

after running ls -li in the correct directory they do match.


Thank you again!

This is on Unraid in docker, All local on the server.

here is the ls -li from yesterday and it looks like the permissions on the folder changed the permissions on the file.
https://i.ibb.co/vC5pbpJ/Screenshot-2023-09-15-072125.png

Just did this one and kept it in the same folder and the ...

I just did another,

Matched with ID3 Tags and renamed
https://i.ibb.co/RbMHYjP/Screenshot-2023-09-14-214914.png

Clicked Hardlink
https://i.ibb.co/7bT6M3B/Screenshot-2023-09-14-214956.png

Original File
https://i.ibb.co/h2tRcGd/Screenshot-2023-09-14-215156.png

"Hardlinked" File
https://i ...

Hardlink does not seem to be working, These files should be linked and when I `ls -i` to find the inode they come back different.

I want to edit my post above, After messing around with naming some more I found a better way that is more mobile frendliy as that is what the majority of my listeners use.

Format Expression -
/storage/data/media/audiobooks/{artist}/{album}/Book # - {t}({y})/Book # - {t}

Format Description ...

Another question...

After I hardlink these, Audiobookshelf lets me change tagging to help with identifying the book. If I change any of this in the hardlinked file will this sever the link?

:?: Please share your format expression for the benefit of all readers including your future self.


I am using Audiobookshelf and following their Directory Structure

Using ID3 tags in music mode
/storage/data/media/audiobooks/{artist}/{album}/{y} - {t} - Book#/{y} - {artist} - {t}
( ^ change ...

Yes all the files have ID3 tags but not all of them are perfectly accurate.

I have figured out a file path and format expression that gets me close but because of some of the inaccurate ID3 tags like {artist} will create different artist folder for the same artist. While in the hardlink setting ...

I really hope FileBot is the fix to my problem. I have a bunch of audiobook files that I need to hardlink and create a folder system for Audiobookshelf to read them correctly.

Right now my original files are either single m4b/mp3 files or they are folders with m4b/mp3, jpg, nfo and cue files.

The ...