hi all, I had a bunch of DAISY format books that I wanted to convert to m4B files for use with Apple Books and other standard audiobook players. I couldn't find anything that would do it with automatic metadata lookup, cover art download and the ability to skip intro and title pages, so I've written a little app for MacOS and iOs. It facilitates converting all DAISY book formats to M4V, single MP3 files with chapters or split MP3 / M4A / AAC / AIFF files. Automatic metadata lookup and extraction from the DAISY files, cover art support, even basic audio trimming and chapter editing support. Is there any interest in this? I may drop a beta if it is and then release it in the app store. It's particularly useful for those in the UK who use the RNIB reading services. Let me know.
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Sounds good
Yeah, sounds interesting. Would be good for audio book shelf too.
I would like to have such a tool for ios
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Interested
This sounds a great idea and I would be interested
Brilliant idea
This sounds fantastic. I've always wanted a way to manipulate daisy more easily.
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This sounds very interesting. It would be even better if it could convert NLS BARD books, but for now I know that is not possible because of the encryption scheme that I don't think has been figured out end-to-end yet although I have figured out a lot of it. I actually developed something close to the opposite of this idea a while ago. I wrote a script that would download an Audible book with audible-cli (including the JSON file with the chapters list), get the Audible activation bytes with audible-cli, convert the AAX audio file to a set of MP3s split by chapter using the activation bytes and the chapter list, generate a CSV file with the chapter names and levels linking to the files, and then generate a CSV with the metadata. Then I would import the CSV file into OBI and it would import the whole book, and after that I just ran the automated phrase detection, then manually set the audio for each heading, so the headings had audio and not just text. Then after that I could export it as a full DAISY3 book that could play on the NLS players or other DAISY playback apps and players. I think the DAISY format is slightly better than M4B for audiobooks, because it supports chapters having different levels, so you can navigate by parts in a big book and skip the chapters within them, or navigate by small subsections. But it probably depends on what your preferred reading app or device is.