Ask HN: How do you search for products / apps given a list of requirements?

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  1. m4b-tool

    m4b-tool is a command line utility to merge, split and chapterize audiobook files such as mp3, ogg, flac, m4a or m4b

    - LG G5 H850 (optional with Bang & Olufsen Hifi-Plus module) + Audiobookshelf + Substreamer

    Let me cite my comment from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32042780:

    I use m4b-tool[1], tone[2] and audiobookshelf[3] together with an LG G5 H850 smartphone[8] with Bang & Olufsen Hifi-Plus Module for Audio Only and I am pretty happy with this config. For Music I use Navidrome[5] and Substreamer App[7]. Maybe I'll try out Jellyfin[4] or maybe Plex[6], but I really don't wanna go closed source.

    I also thought about writing something self hosted in C# to have ONE solution for audiobooks, podcasts and music and started a small private project, but this will take a while until it is ready to release something...

    You may ask: Why an LG G5 H850? Well, its relatively small and cheap (about 50 - 80 bucks used) it has an audio Jack, USB-C, you can change the battery, it can hold up to 2TB microSD storage, has an HiFi Plus module for audio enthusiasts and a descent screen. Besides that it can run lineage os...

    Note: I'm the author of the first two projects :-)

    [1]: https://github.com/sandreas/m4b-tool

    [2]: https://github.com/sandreas/tone

    [3]: https://github.com/advplyr/audiobookshelf

    [4]: https://jellyfin.org/

    [5]: https://www.navidrome.org/

    [6]: https://www.plex.tv

    [7]: https://substreamerapp.com/

    [8]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LG_G5

  2. Nutrient

    Nutrient – The #1 PDF SDK Library, trusted by 10K+ developers. Other PDF SDKs promise a lot - then break. Laggy scrolling, poor mobile UX, tons of bugs, and lack of support cost you endless frustrations. Nutrient’s SDK handles billion-page workloads - so you don’t have to debug PDFs. Used by ~1 billion end users in more than 150 different countries.

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  3. tone

    tone is a cross platform audio tagger and metadata editor to dump and modify metadata for a wide variety of formats, including mp3, m4b, flac and more. It has no dependencies and can be downloaded as single binary for Windows, macOS, Linux and other common platforms.

    - LG G5 H850 (optional with Bang & Olufsen Hifi-Plus module) + Audiobookshelf + Substreamer

    Let me cite my comment from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32042780:

    I use m4b-tool[1], tone[2] and audiobookshelf[3] together with an LG G5 H850 smartphone[8] with Bang & Olufsen Hifi-Plus Module for Audio Only and I am pretty happy with this config. For Music I use Navidrome[5] and Substreamer App[7]. Maybe I'll try out Jellyfin[4] or maybe Plex[6], but I really don't wanna go closed source.

    I also thought about writing something self hosted in C# to have ONE solution for audiobooks, podcasts and music and started a small private project, but this will take a while until it is ready to release something...

    You may ask: Why an LG G5 H850? Well, its relatively small and cheap (about 50 - 80 bucks used) it has an audio Jack, USB-C, you can change the battery, it can hold up to 2TB microSD storage, has an HiFi Plus module for audio enthusiasts and a descent screen. Besides that it can run lineage os...

    Note: I'm the author of the first two projects :-)

    [1]: https://github.com/sandreas/m4b-tool

    [2]: https://github.com/sandreas/tone

    [3]: https://github.com/advplyr/audiobookshelf

    [4]: https://jellyfin.org/

    [5]: https://www.navidrome.org/

    [6]: https://www.plex.tv

    [7]: https://substreamerapp.com/

    [8]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LG_G5

  4. audiobookshelf

    Self-hosted audiobook and podcast server

    - LG G5 H850 (optional with Bang & Olufsen Hifi-Plus module) + Audiobookshelf + Substreamer

    Let me cite my comment from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32042780:

    I use m4b-tool[1], tone[2] and audiobookshelf[3] together with an LG G5 H850 smartphone[8] with Bang & Olufsen Hifi-Plus Module for Audio Only and I am pretty happy with this config. For Music I use Navidrome[5] and Substreamer App[7]. Maybe I'll try out Jellyfin[4] or maybe Plex[6], but I really don't wanna go closed source.

    I also thought about writing something self hosted in C# to have ONE solution for audiobooks, podcasts and music and started a small private project, but this will take a while until it is ready to release something...

    You may ask: Why an LG G5 H850? Well, its relatively small and cheap (about 50 - 80 bucks used) it has an audio Jack, USB-C, you can change the battery, it can hold up to 2TB microSD storage, has an HiFi Plus module for audio enthusiasts and a descent screen. Besides that it can run lineage os...

    Note: I'm the author of the first two projects :-)

    [1]: https://github.com/sandreas/m4b-tool

    [2]: https://github.com/sandreas/tone

    [3]: https://github.com/advplyr/audiobookshelf

    [4]: https://jellyfin.org/

    [5]: https://www.navidrome.org/

    [6]: https://www.plex.tv

    [7]: https://substreamerapp.com/

    [8]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LG_G5

  5. Jellyfin

    The Free Software Media System - Server Backend & API

    - LG G5 H850 (optional with Bang & Olufsen Hifi-Plus module) + Audiobookshelf + Substreamer

    Let me cite my comment from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32042780:

    I use m4b-tool[1], tone[2] and audiobookshelf[3] together with an LG G5 H850 smartphone[8] with Bang & Olufsen Hifi-Plus Module for Audio Only and I am pretty happy with this config. For Music I use Navidrome[5] and Substreamer App[7]. Maybe I'll try out Jellyfin[4] or maybe Plex[6], but I really don't wanna go closed source.

    I also thought about writing something self hosted in C# to have ONE solution for audiobooks, podcasts and music and started a small private project, but this will take a while until it is ready to release something...

    You may ask: Why an LG G5 H850? Well, its relatively small and cheap (about 50 - 80 bucks used) it has an audio Jack, USB-C, you can change the battery, it can hold up to 2TB microSD storage, has an HiFi Plus module for audio enthusiasts and a descent screen. Besides that it can run lineage os...

    Note: I'm the author of the first two projects :-)

    [1]: https://github.com/sandreas/m4b-tool

    [2]: https://github.com/sandreas/tone

    [3]: https://github.com/advplyr/audiobookshelf

    [4]: https://jellyfin.org/

    [5]: https://www.navidrome.org/

    [6]: https://www.plex.tv

    [7]: https://substreamerapp.com/

    [8]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LG_G5

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