Laughs, Fwow darcy. I'm startin to feel like a great big winer here,
but let me dispatch all this with a couple of short rejoinders.
I don't use audible. Never have, probably never will. It's a
terrible system and there are much better download services out
there. Amazon just bought audible out, so there is hope on the
horizon, but audible as it stands sounds terrible, and comes locked
down against all of my mp3 players, for my two major complaints.
In vlc, I can press command shift O, and hit enter on a folder which
has my book in it, and the files in that folder will play in the right
order. No fuss, no muss It also has a jump to time function built in
so no need to install the add on, although the script from Tim's site
does look quite nifty. I'm sure I can make smart play lists if I had
to, but I do... Not... Need, to make smart play lists. That's just
baggage.
Best,
Erik
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On 19-May-08, at 3:59 PM, Darcy Burnard wrote:
Hi everyone. Since there has been a lot of discussion recently on
audio books in itunes, I thought I'd chime in with my thoughts on
how to make itunes a great way to listen to audio books.
First, if you're using books from audible.com, almost nothing needs
to be said. You download the files, open them, they get imported in
to itunes, and all is well.
If they aren't from audible, you can have the same experience with
just a few simple things.
If you're ripping books from cd, you'll probably find that each disc
is made up of many many tracks. I'd suggest joining these together
before doing the rip. This can be done under the advanced menu.
Then, your book will only be a few tracks instead of a few hundred.
If your books are already in many mp3s, you can get a script to join
all of these files together. But you really don't have to do this.
If I have a book made of multiple parts, here's what I do. Create a
smart playlist with the book title under the song name, the author
under artist, and the playcount set to 0. What you have then is a
playlist with all the parts of your book in the right order. Once
each track gets played, it disappears from the playlist. So
whenever you want to do some reading, just start itunes playing at
the top of your playlist and you're good to go.
Finally, no matter how you've gotten books in to itunes, I would
suggest going in to info and making sure that "remember playback
position", and "skip when shuffling" are both on.
Hopefully this message made sense. If not, let me know and I'll be
glad to clarify anything.
Darcy
