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I was building a script to do this (but got distracted). However, I didn't know that --latest N would check before downloading -- how does it perform the check? Wouldn't just using --latest with a big number solve the problem?

With that said, my plan to implement this (before I got distracted) was to use odmpy --exportloans loans.json, then get the individual book IDs (something like cat loans.json | jq '.[].id', but I haven't tested that) then remove the IDs I've already processed, and then call odmpy --selectid [list of IDs].

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OK, this works to filter and show only the loans I've downloaded: cat loans.json | jq '.[].id' | sort -u | sed 's/"//g' | combine - not <(cd ~/au/sources/libby/ && ls)
(That's combine from moreutils, and obviously this is after odmpy --exportloans loans.json).
Then you can pass that almost directly to odmpy --selectid ... the only hard part is figuring out how I need to set up the download directory, as well as how to best get the metadata.

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One comment: there used to be another project on github that automatically downloaded all my checked-out libby books. It's gone now, the whole project's missing. The two facts might be related, although I don't know for sure.

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Like what was mentioned, using --latest N with a sufficiently large number should work for you unless you move the previously downloaded files to a different location.

What is it about --latest that is an issue for your use case?

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Like what was mentioned, using --latest N with a sufficiently large number should work for you unless you move the previously downloaded files to a different location.

What is it about --latest that is an issue for your use case?

yeah, latest with a large number would probably work. i thought it might be cleaner to have an option which specifically was targeted at getting all new books, but i can make latest work.

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@ping another issue that i noticed just now as i was testing this out is that even though --latest doesn't re-download the files, it does modify the files, so when i check for newly modified files, the stuff that has already been downloaded shows up as "new" again. so maybe i don't need --new, but would it be possible to make it so that --latest doesn't modify existing files?

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@ping another issue that i noticed just now as i was testing this out is that even though --latest doesn't re-download the files, it does modify the files, so when i check for newly modified files, the stuff that has already been downloaded shows up as "new" again. so maybe i don't need --new, but would it be possible to make it so that --latest doesn't modify existing files?

Existing audiofile downloads will no longer have their ID3 updated in affc94c
You can test this by installing from the latest source.

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@ping another issue that i noticed just now as i was testing this out is that even though --latest doesn't re-download the files, it does modify the files, so when i check for newly modified files, the stuff that has already been downloaded shows up as "new" again. so maybe i don't need --new, but would it be possible to make it so that --latest doesn't modify existing files?

Existing audiofile downloads will no longer have their ID3 updated in affc94c You can test this by installing from the latest source.

hmmm, did an upgrade, force-reinstall of the latest and saw the same behavior (local modification times changed).

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Can you provide the actual command you are using?

Also, are you looking at the modification time of the folder or the actual mp3 files?

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Can you provide the actual command you are using?

Also, are you looking at the modification time of the folder or the actual mp3 files?

command:
odmpy libby --latest 10 --hideprogress --downloaddir AudioBooks

i'm looking at the modification times of the mp3 files. (running this all on ubuntu linux box).

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My bad. I missed out on the changes for odm-based downloads. Can you update from source and try again?

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My bad. I missed out on the changes for odm-based downloads. Can you update from source and try again?

yep, that did it, thanks! guess i'll call this good to go. thanks again for an awesome utility.

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