Hi Dónal and Travis, I think I missed the first question, and I'm coming in late to this thread, but I'll add to the description Travis gave. I don't usually bother burning Audible files to audio CD unless I want to give them to someone to play in a regular audio CD player. However, if you want to burn an Audible audio CD and control the break points for each CD, you can do so by setting the "start time" and "stop time" on the Options pane of the audiobook track. I'm not sure there's any optimal way to do this. If you're using the Chapter markers in your Audible book, you can set the start or stop times to match chapter breaks, and try to fit in as many full chapters as will go into an audio CD, by checking the list of "Chapters" times on the iTunes menu bar, but these are generally too coarsely set to be useful. (And note, you have to have started playing the audiobook track in question in order for the "Chapters" menu to show up on the iTunes menu bar.)
If I wanted to burn the Audible tracks to audio CDs with iTunes, I'd probably get the "RestartAt" AppleScript from Tim Kilburn's VoiceOver Downloads web page: http://web.me.com/kilburns/voiceover/downloads.html It comes with full instructions. Then, for any track that you select in iTunes, you'll find a "RestartAt" menu option under an AppleScripts menu on your iTunes menu bar that will let you input a new starting playback time of your choice, or accept the default value. The easiest way to use this for your purposes is to assign it a keyboard shortcut under System Preferences > Keyboard under the Keyboard Shortcuts tab by choosing "Application Shortcuts" under the "Shortcuts Category" table, then pressing the "Add an Application Shortcut" button. In the dialog window, press (VO-Space) the pop up button for "All Applications" and navigate to "iTunes" (e.g., quickly press "i t u"). For the "menu title" type in "RestartAt" (without the quotation marks, but with the capital "R" and capital "A"), then type in your selected keyboard shortcut, after first making sure that this is not the same as some existing keyboard shortcut you might use in iTunes. So the way I'd do this in practice is to select my Audible track, and decide where the good break points would be in intervals of about 70 minutes. I'd use the RestartAt shortcut, and sample the track at 70 minutes. If that's at an inconvenient break point, I'd press the Command+Option keys and start tapping the left arrow key to rewind through the playing track or hold down the left arrow key to locate a good break point, then I'd fine tune it by using the RestartAt shortcut to check this is the time I want. I'd keep a TextEdit window open and Command-tab between apps to record the times I select for the break intervals. Then, when I've worked out the start and stop times I want to use. I'd set them up using "Get Info" (Command-I) on the track to enter them under the "Start Time:" and "Stop Time:" text fields of the Options tab. I'd probably just copy the last "Stop Time:" entry and paste it into "Start Time:", then Command-Tab to the TextEdit list of my break point times to copy the next "Stop Time:" and paste it into the Options tab "Stop Time:" field. Then I'd press "return" to commit my changes and close the "Get Info" window, insert my CD, and press the "Burn" button for the next burn. This takes longer to describe than it does to do. I'll just say that it's only worth doing this if you have to play the CDs in an audio CD player. If you want to transfer this or just play the CDs in another iTunes library that you can authorize for your Audible account, it's easier just to burn a data CD or DVD, because for all practical purposes you'll be able to play that on the other authorized machine, and it will take up far less space. The same data discs work for either Windows or Macs. HTH. Cheers, Esther On Jul 14, 2011, at 18:45, Travis Siegel wrote: > When you have the audible book you want burned in a list, just vo-shift-m, > then select burn selection to disk. > Be advised though, he audible method of burning is really horrible when it > comes to cd breaks, since it just goes until the cd is full, then backs up 30 > seconds or so, then begins again on the next disk. > I usually wind up audio hijacking the content, then creating new files to do > the burning with, since then I can control where it puts the breaks. > It does take a while especially with long books though. > You could of course burn the book, then rip it back, then use a file > merge/splitting program to do the job too, but I've not tried this approach. > <--- Mac Access At Mac Access Dot Net ---> To reply to this post, please address your message to [email protected] You can find a monthly formatted archive of all messages posted to the Mac-Access forum at the following URL: <http://mail.tft-bbs.co.uk/pipermail/mac-access/index.html> The Mac-Access mailing list is guaranteed malware, spyware, Trojan, virus and worm-free! Please remember to update your membership options periodically by visiting the list website at: <https://mail.tft-bbs.co.uk/mailman/listinfo/mac-access/options/>
