Hey Eric. So when you listen to a book by opening its folder, and you
have to stop at some point, how do you pick up where you left off next
time? It seems like this would be difficult if you have a folder
comprised of hundreds of little mp3 files.
As for audible, I'm not crazy about the fact that they use drm
either. Personally though, I've not run up against it since every mp3
player I've owned has had audible support. Also, their listener plans
can get you a lot of audio for very little money. With the plan I've
had for the last six years, I get two books a month for $20 american.
I don't think they offer that particular plan anymore, but they do
have similar ones.
Darcy
On 19-May-08, at 10:13 PM, erik burggraaf wrote:
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
