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AudioPie

AudioPie — build M4B audiobooks from MP3 tracks with chapter editing.

📚 Documentation

Features

• 🎵 Convert MP3 tracks to M4B audiobook format
• 📖 Edit chapters with drag & drop
• 🎨 Metadata editing support
• 🔧 FFmpeg integration
• 💾 Project save/load functionality
• 🌍 Multilingual (English & Russian)

Tech Stack

• ⚡️ Vite — Next generation frontend tooling
• ⚛️ React 18 — UI framework
• 🖥 Electron — Cross-platform desktop apps
• 📘 TypeScript — Type safety
• 🎨 SCSS — Styling

Project Structure

├── electron/          # Electron main & preload processes
│   ├── main/         # Main process
│   └── preload/      # Preload scripts
├── src/              # React application (renderer)
│   ├── components/   # React components
│   ├── context/      # React context
│   └── styles/       # SCSS styles
├── public/           # Static assets
├── build/            # App icons
└── assets/           # Additional resources (FFmpeg, etc.)

Development

Install dependencies

npm install

Start development server

npm run dev

Build for production

npm run build

The built application will be in the release/{version} directory.

Scripts

• npm run dev — Start development server with hot reload
• npm run build — Build application for production
• npm run preview — Preview production build

Requirements

• Node.js >= 18.0.0
• npm or yarn

Security Warnings

⚠️ Note: Code signing is currently in progress. Until it's complete, you may see security warnings when launching the app.

macOS

If macOS shows "AudioPie is damaged and can't be opened", run in Terminal:

xattr -cr /Applications/AudioPie.app

Or go to System Settings → Privacy & Security and click "Open Anyway".

Windows

If Windows SmartScreen shows "Windows protected your PC":

1. Click "More info"
2. Click "Run anyway"

License

MIT License — see LICENSE file for details

Author

Ivan Monastyrev (i@ikloster.ru)