Windows?

[Travillion]

Good afternoon! I use audible and audible-cli a lot on my last machine, running it through the WSL. I just got a new Windows machine and I wonder if it's possible to just use in Windows? I saw there is a Windows install for audible-cli, but I don't see any specifics for audible.

Thank you

[mkb79]

Hi. Good morning. Audible and audible-cli are written in Python. So you only need a Python interpreter on your Windows machine. The you can use pip to install audible-cli. If you download the windows binary from the releases pages, it will bundle all dependencies. If you use the single-file version, the start-up time on Windows is high. If this is to much for you, please use the dir version.

[Travillion]

Thank you! Is there any functional difference between running in windows vs. WSL? You mentioned the high startup time for the single file version. Any other considerations? I could do WSL if the scripts run better there, I'm just trying to streamline things this time around.

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On Mon, Feb 12, 2024, 10:02 PM mkb79 ***@***.***> wrote: Hi. Good morning. Audible and audible-cli are written in Python. So you only need a Python interpreter on your Windows machine. The you can use pip to install audible-cli. If you download the windows binary from the releases <https://github.com/mkb79/audible-cli/releases> pages, it will bundle all dependencies. If you use the single-file version, the start-up time on Windows is high. If this is to much for you, please use the dir version. — Reply to this email directly, view it on GitHub <#347 (comment)>, or unsubscribe <https://github.com/notifications/unsubscribe-auth/AIHG7UPJAJK4A2NZ5LHQ5ADYTLXVVAVCNFSM6AAAAABDFNOQZKVHI2DSMVQWIX3LMV43SRDJONRXK43TNFXW4Q3PNVWWK3TUHM4DINBZGQYDI> . You are receiving this because you authored the thread.Message ID: ***@***.***>

[mkb79]

There should no functional differences, if you run it on Windows natively. But for a better performance I would suggest to install audible-cli using pipx. So you get around additional startup time caused by creating the binary with Pyinstaller.

[Travillion]

Oh great, thank you! Is it just cli that I should use pipx for, or also audible?

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On Wed, Feb 14, 2024, 2:18 PM mkb79 ***@***.***> wrote: There should no functional differences, if you run it on Windows natively. But for a better performance I would suggest to install audible-cli using pipx <https://github.com/pypa/pipx>. So you get around additional startup time caused by creating the binary with Pyinstaller. — Reply to this email directly, view it on GitHub <#347 (comment)>, or unsubscribe <https://github.com/notifications/unsubscribe-auth/AIHG7UPXMTERAC3NRMSNVJDYTUS3VAVCNFSM6AAAAABDFNOQZKVHI2DSMVQWIX3LMV43SRDJONRXK43TNFXW4Q3PNVWWK3TUHM4DINZSGQ3DK> . You are receiving this because you authored the thread.Message ID: ***@***.***>

[mkb79]

Short form:
It's Python related. Pipx manages the dependencies for audible-cli in its own virtual environment. This way you can use my package independent from other Python apps you're installing.

[Travillion]

I installed Audible via pip install and I installed audible-cli via pipx. When I try to run audible-quickstart I get an error
PS C:\MediaTools> audible-quickstart Traceback (most recent call last): File "<frozen runpy>", line 198, in _run_module_as_main File "<frozen runpy>", line 88, in _run_code File "c:\users\travis\.local\bin\audible-quickstart.exe\__main__.py", line 4, in <module> File "C:\Users\Travis\AppData\Local\pipx\pipx\venvs\audible-cli\Lib\site-packages\audible_cli\__init__.py", line 5, in <module> from .cli import main, quickstart File "C:\Users\Travis\AppData\Local\pipx\pipx\venvs\audible-cli\Lib\site-packages\audible_cli\cli.py", line 3, in <module> from pkg_resources import iter_entry_points ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'pkg_resources'

Any idea why this is not running?

[mkb79]

pkg_resources should be installed by default. Now you can run pipx inject audible-cli pkg_resources. This should solve your issue.

FYI:
If you install audible-cli via pipx, you don’t need to install audible via pip. The first is enough.

[Travillion]

Thank you for your quick response! I tried the inject command and got this error: "PS C:\MediaTools> pipx inject audible-cli pkg_resources Fatal error from pip prevented installation. Full pip output in file: C:\Users\Travis\AppData\Local\pipx\pipx\Logs\cmd_2024-02-19_13.00.58_pip_errors.log Some possibly relevant errors from pip install: ERROR: Could not find a version that satisfies the requirement pkg-resources (from versions: none) ERROR: No matching distribution found for pkg-resources Error installing pkg-resources." I used pip uninstall audible and pipx uninstall audible-cli, then pipx install audible-cli, to try and start fresh, and I got the same behavior (unable to run audible-quickstart, unable to inject pkg-resources). Examining the error log and it only displays the two mentioned above.

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On Mon, Feb 19, 2024 at 12:46 PM mkb79 ***@***.***> wrote: pkg_resources should be installed by default. Now you can run pipx inject audible-cli pkg_resources. This should solve your issue. FYI: If you install audible-cli via pipx, you don’t need to install audible via pip. The first is enough. — Reply to this email directly, view it on GitHub <#347 (reply in thread)>, or unsubscribe <https://github.com/notifications/unsubscribe-auth/AIHG7UPBJ764ST2MSOTL4DLYUOTYFAVCNFSM6AAAAABDFNOQZKVHI2DSMVQWIX3LMV43SRDJONRXK43TNFXW4Q3PNVWWK3TUHM4DKMRRGU2DC> . You are receiving this because you authored the thread.Message ID: ***@***.***>

[mkb79]

Oh, my mistake. Can you try pipx inject audible-cli setuptools?!

[Travillion]

That worked, thank you!!

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On Mon, Feb 19, 2024, 1:24 PM mkb79 ***@***.***> wrote: Oh, my mistake. Can you try pipx inject audible-cli setuptools?! — Reply to this email directly, view it on GitHub <#347 (reply in thread)>, or unsubscribe <https://github.com/notifications/unsubscribe-auth/AIHG7UKEPNWKM26OU4L2GCTYUOYH7AVCNFSM6AAAAABDFNOQZKVHI2DSMVQWIX3LMV43SRDJONRXK43TNFXW4Q3PNVWWK3TUHM4DKMRRHAYDM> . You are receiving this because you authored the thread.Message ID: ***@***.***>