On Jun 12, 2005, at 22:51, Deborah Puerini wrote:
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,
You're right that the iPod (and iTunes) is a great way to listen to
audio books. However, I have a slightly different means of listening.
I leave the CD as 10-25 individual tracks, then just make one playlist
of all of the CD audio from the books. Each track is named something
like Disk 1-5 01, DIsk 1-5 02, ... Disk 5-5 01, Disk 5-5 02, etc.
I still have to remember where I left off, so the next time I do this
I'm going to try a smart playlist of the book's audio files, with
playcount=0 so that only files I haven't heard show up in the list.
That way, as I listen to the book, the audio files disappear, making it
very easy to find where I left off. I know this will work in iTunes,
but I'm not sure whether my iPod is smart enough for that... I'll have
to try and see.
Also, if you haven't seen it yet, I highly recommend the DIY iTunes
Smart Radio Station:
http://www.codepoetry.net/archives/2005/01/15/
doityourself_smart_radio_station.php
Daniel
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