Setup
Here’s what you need to build this project.
Hardware
- Smartphone
- Speaker or headset to test audio playback
- (Optional) Mac or Windows PC for remote script development
Software
- beautifulsoup4 Python library
- feedparser Python library
- ffmpeg
- mutagen Python library
- Path (part of the standard Python library)
- Rclone (already installed in Chapter 2, Setting Up the Software)
- shutil (part of the standard Python library)
- (Optional) DB Browser for SQLite
- (Optional) SQLite Extension for VS Code
- MP3 Audiobook Player Pro for iOS, or
- Smart Book Player for Android
Before we begin installing the list of software dependencies, let’s specifically break down what we want to achieve.
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