Wow! Audio books on the iPod are totally awesome! Got 3 audio cd's from
the library, and ripped them according to a friend's directions for
iTunes to get on the ipod* (see below), and WOW! just love it. 12 CDs
pare down to about 900 MB (mp3), very cool! Just a blip on the ipod!!
Probably could rip them at a smaller bit rate (is that what it's
called?) but maybe next time...
Now I'm listening to From a Buick 8 by Stephen King, which I had never
read, on my way to work, the store, whereever! I also got The
Gunslinger by Stephen King and A Vineyard Killing by Phillip Craig. It
took a LONNNNGGGG time to get the CDs in iTunes, about 6 hours, but
well worth it. What's weird is that I did my bills listening to it
today on the beautiful iPod and I actually didn't MIND paying the bills
this time!
So I guess the next major purchase will be a bigger hard drive, here
silly me, I thought I had plenty of room, well THINK AGAIN! Because our
local library has a whole bookshelf of audio CDs! YeeeeeHAAWWWWW!
*quoting my friend:
One of the hassles of listening to audio books via the ipod is the
large number of tracks. A six-CD book, for example, might have 25
tracks per disk, so a total of 150 tracks! There's a handy workaround,
though.
1. In iTunes, before importing each disk, highlight all of its tracks
(click on any one of them, then hit Apple-A to select them all).
2. Type Apple-i, type the name of the book and number of the disk in
the "Album" window (i.e., "Curious Incident - 1") click on "Okay" at
hte lower right.
3. Under the "Advanced" menu at the top of your screen, select "Join CD
tracks." All of that disk's 25 tracks now become one "SuperTrack."
4. Now click "Import" at the upper right corner of the iTunes window.
5. Repeat for each disk.
Now, instead of 250 tracks, you wind up with a mere six tracks,
sequentially numbered. Teach track will be about an hour long. If you
don't want to listen for a whole hour, just pause at any point, then
resume listening another time. Easy!
Deb in Rhode Island
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