SAsandreas·Aug 11, 2019Submission
Show HN: M4b-tool 0.4.2 – merge, split and chapterize audiobooks(bugfix release)
1 points · Open discussionsandreas
m4b-tool
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sandreas / m4b-tool
m4b-tool
m4b-tool is a command line utility to merge, split and chapterize audiobook files such as mp3, ogg, flac, m4a or m4b
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What it is
m4b-tool is a command line utility to merge, split and chapterize audiobook files such as mp3, ogg, flac, m4a or m4b
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- advplyr/audiobookshelf · linked in 3 of the same discussions
- yermak/audiobookconverter · linked in 3 of the same discussions
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Observed mentions: 2018-06-20 18:04:29 UTC to 2025-08-10 11:12:32 UTC.
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| 2018 | 2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 3 | 3 | 0 |
| 2019 | 2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 6 | 4 | 2 |
| 2020 | 2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| 2021 | 2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 3 | 0 | 3 |
| 2022 | 2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 8 | 0 | 8 |
| 2023 | 2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 5 | 0 | 5 |
| 2024 | 2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| 2025 | 2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 0 | 1 |
What Hacker News says
6 sourcesThere already is an issue for this on m4b-tool: https://github.com/sandreas/m4b-tool/issues/21
In this issue there is a detailed description, how this can be achieved, but i did not manage to get it working with cover and audio (help wanted)
In Show HN: M4b-tool – a tool to merge, split and chapterize audiobooksShow HN: M4b-tool – a tool to merge, split and chapterize audiobooks
48 points · Open discussionShow HN: M4b-tool 0.3.3 – a tool to merge, split and chapterize audiobooks
18 points · Open discussionWell comparing Go and PHP is kind of difficult, because they are targeting completely different goals.
After some years of development, both languages have evolved a lot and they both can be used for many other things, that they haven't been designed for.
PHP was a dynamically typed scripting language to build personal homepages (Personal Home Page Tools). Today it is an object oriented, type hinted language that supports functional and object oriented programming, many database management systems and has a package manager (composer). I really like PHP (see https://github.com/sandreas/m4b-tool for a proof), but some concerns about PHP have always been (and still are):
- backwards compatibility reaching too far
- way too big standard library (see levenshtein function)
- the "callable" concept - call_user_func_array([$obj, "method"])
- mixi
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ng up too many concepts (OOP, Traits, Functional style)
- the type system (which is getting better with php 7)
- unpredictable statements - empty($x), comparisons (== vs ===) and the "mixed" type
- the "array" type being array and dictionary and...
- the $ used for variable declaration
- $this-> is still needed for calling object methods
- "." for concatenation and "\" for namespace separation
Another bad thing about PHP is, that on most web servers it is meant to be stateless, which means that you are in trouble using technologies like websockets.
Some of these things unfortunately mean that PHP often is much slower than it could be - and this is where "go" can be a successor. Performance. If you really need FAST web apps and performance is the goal, go can be a nice choice. But for getting things done in a not too complex web page, i would always choose php.
Show HN: M4b-tool 0.3.2 – a tool to merge, split and chapterize audiobooks
1 points · Open discussion