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by jspizziri 9mo ago
There's a really awesome site called Librivox [1], where volunteers narrate books that are in the public domain. Those recordings are also in the public domain as well (this is just part of the Librivox thing). The quality of those rec
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by jspizziri 9mo ago
Since there's been a reasonable amount of traffic due to this comment, I thought I'd leave a 50% coupon ($11.75 for yr one) for HN folks in case anyone is interested: http://app.soundreads.io/purchase/annual?p
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by jspizziri 9mo ago
I just updated the home page (main nav & body content) to add a "Browse All Books" button that takes you into the app to view the current titles. Appreciate the feedback.
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by jspizziri 9mo ago
Thanks for the feedback! Do you think adding a button to the homepage/marketing page that says something to the effect of "See all our content" that redirected you here: https://app.soundreads.io/ Do you thin
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by jspizziri 9mo ago
All the audio is by real humans but I definitely use AI help on the descriptions and images, as graphic design and copywriting are not areas I’m competent in, and as a side gig currently I only have so much time. A good chunk of the initial
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by jspizziri 9mo ago
https://soundreads.io/ An audiobook streaming service that focuses on timeless classic works in the public domain. I do everything from building the app to the audio engineering. One thing I'm especially proud of is th
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by jspizziri 11mo ago
Thank you, and thanks for the comment! Currently I have around 20 books with plans on releasing 1 a month (hopefully more). Have several in production right now and several in the bag ready to release over the first several months. I litera
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by jspizziri 11mo ago
Coincidentally, I posted a somewhat related Show HN yesterday: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45657083 Crossover is that some of what we’ve done is curate some of the best librivox titles and enhance their audio quali
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Show HN: An Audible alternative for classic audiobooks(soundreads.io)
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by jspizziri 2y ago
You mentioned readium in one of your comments. I’m curious why you didn’t use the readium spec and corresponding ecosystem. Coming in cold and just glanced at your blog post, and I see you’re using RN. There is a RN package that leverages r
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by jspizziri 3y ago
In my case (and I suspect many others) the answer is Xcode. I develop native apps which means I need access to an iOS dev environment. iOS development is nearly impossible without Xcode, so the only way to do it is either pay a virtualizati
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by jspizziri 3y ago
Despite its many flaws, I use Plex as the single place for all my video and audio content. If you pay for the lifetime pass, you get access to an app called Plexamp which is designed for playing back audio. Cancel your subscription, downloa
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by jspizziri 3y ago
If you haven’t already, you should check out MakeMKV. You can buy it or use it free with the beta keys, and it should solve your problem. https://makemkv.com/
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by jspizziri 3y ago
We’ve built a similar pipeline architecture for our product. One key thing I’ll mention is that we’re using Shaka-streamer which is a python wrapper around Shaka-packager (which in turn is a wrapper around ffmpeg). We queue our transcode jo