This is a simple tool I made to sync my podcasts and music to my mp3 player, the Hiby R1. It is a tool with a python backend and html frontend which can be hosted pretty much anywhere. It is designed to be used with the upload via network on the player but USB support is coming soon. Hopefully you find it useful.
Video: https://cdn.hackclub.com/019fba97-0486-7755-b3db-7881c11ccf9b/2026-08-01%2009-48-16.mov
Clone the repo first! To set this up, just populate your .env with proper values then install the requirements.txt in your venv with pip install -r requirements.txt. Then run uvicorn main:app..
Use ID's from podcastindex, and find them when you go to podcastindex and choose a podcast. It will be in the url as the first integer you see. Just paste it in then click get podcasts.
- USB support
- More documentation
- Fix the HTML UI (it is ugly)
- Add music support
- Add audiobook support (My audiobooks)
If you would like another MP3 player added feel free to open an issue or make a pull request i'll try to be active!
This is not endorsed by or affiliated with Hiby or the Hiby R1 product. Any wording, logos, or trademarks used in this project are property of their respective owners.
- Gitignore fully AI
- Autocomplete used
- Claude used when I had actually had no clue but no copy pasting just explaining.
This is being submitted for Horizons, a program run by Hack Club. Hack Club is a non-profit and US registered 501(c)3 charity which encourages teens to code, learn to code and create open source projects. Feel free to check their new flagship program out here.
This was prevously submitted to Macondo but because of review times i decided to unship it.
This project is licensed under the MIT License permitting you to do whatever you want with it basically I think.