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There is also https://www.vorleser.net/ https://www.vorleser.net/ for german users. In case you want to take it a step further, you could convert the `mp3`s to
by sandreas 3y ago
There is also https://www.vorleser.net/ https://www.vorleser.net/ for german users.
In case you want to take it a step further, you could convert the `mp3`s to `m4b` format (one file per audio book), which internally uses an `mp4` container aac codec, chapters for separation and extended metadata.
It's well supported on iTunes / iPods / iPhone as well as Jellyfin, Kodi, Plex, etc. and the files have lower bitrates than mp3 providing similar quality. (see https://github.com/seanap/Plex-Audiobook-Guide#optional-automatically-convert-mp3-audiobooks-to-chapterized-m4b-linuxwindows https://github.com/seanap/Plex-Audiobook-Guide#optional-auto...)
There is also https://www.thorsten-voice.de/en/motivation-vision-english/ https://www.thorsten-voice.de/en/motivation-vision-english/ (see my comment below), if you would like to generate your own german audio books via TTS and AI.
A self hosted audio book server is audiobookshelf (https://www.audiobookshelf.org/ https://www.audiobookshelf.org/) which comes with an app that is open souce and supports offline listening.
Tools to convert `mp3` to `m4b` and edit metadata:
- AudioBookConverter - https://github.com/yermak/AudioBookConverter https://github.com/yermak/AudioBookConverter (GUI, cross platform)
- Chapter and Verse - http://lodensoftware.com/chapter-and-verse/ http://lodensoftware.com/chapter-and-verse/
- m4b-tool - https://github.com/sandreas/m4b-tool https://github.com/sandreas/m4b-tool (command line, cross platform)
- tone - https://github.com/sandreas/tone https://github.com/sandreas/tone (command line, cross platform)
Note: I'm the author of the last two tools.
- JohnKacz 3y agoI just wanted to say thank you for your work. I’ve used m4b-tool and some other projects that use it as a dependency and I am glad to be reminded of tone. It was just getting started last I looked at the project.
- sandreas 3y agoThank you, I really appreciate that. Unfortunately I'm too busy atm to put too much effort in, but there are some nice things coming up :-) I'm also sometimes working on `Tone Audio Player` (https://github.com/sandreas/ToneAudioPlayer https://github.com/sandreas/ToneAudioPlayer), which is planned as cross platform iPod Nano inspired app, that is able to stream and download from different services (Navidrome, Audiobookshelf, Jellyfin, Kodi, etc.). But this project has just started and will not really progress until I have more time. If you are interested, take a look at AvaloniaUI (https://avaloniaui.net/ https://avaloniaui.net/), a really nice cross platform (incl. WASM) UI Toolkit for C#.