Clear as day.
Now if only I could find a fast way to tag files as they are created
with Books2Burn. :) Right now as it stands I have to let it create
the MP3s, then open the MP3s in iTunes, set the artist and all that
inm the Info field, then I have to conver them all to .aac, and then I
have to bookmmark them after making sure I've gotten rid of all the
MP3 files first and running that script that removes dead tracks.
The beauty of it is that once that's done, they all get added to myh
smart playlist I have set up for this particular series.
Jane
On May 19, 2008, at 6:59 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
