[Bug]: ABS fails to parse the number of book chapters for books was more than three or four files

Author: XingShellyCreated Sep 7, 2026Updated Sep 14, 2026
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What happened?

Several times I would place a book made up of of 9-12 files and ABS only detects the first 3-4 chapters of the books despite detecting all of the files and being able to play past the last detected chapter, the progress bar shows the full length of the book, but the chapters don't show up. for some reason.

What did you expect to happen?

For the book, chapters to be fully parsed and detected.

Steps to reproduce the issue

  1. Have a book with several files in one folder and then attempt to refresh the library to detect them.

Audiobookshelf version

2.35.1

How are you running audiobookshelf?

Docker

What OS is your Audiobookshelf server hosted from?

Linux

If the issue is being seen in the UI, what browsers are you seeing the problem on?

None

Logs

bash

Additional Notes

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