Hi Simon,
On Jun 2, 2010, Simon Fogarty wrote:
And on the note of changing file names. I've got a large amount of
mp3 files
which are audio books and I want to put them on my IPod to have as
books,
but they seem to go under the music option rather than audio books.
Is it possible to have itunes convert them from mp3 to m4b files or
do we
need to use a third party tool to do the conversion.
If you're going to be listening to your audio books on your iPod or in
iTunes, then the easiest solution for you may be to use an application
like Audiobook Binder or Audiobook Builder to merge your files, join
them and convert to m4b, add in title and author, and import them into
iTunes into the Audiobooks section. In addition, Audiobook Builder at
least, will let you create chapter markers for the files you join. I
think that Audiobook Binder is open source and free (haven't tried
this one myself). Audiobook Builder from Splasm is shareware and
lists for $9.95. It has a very simple GUI interface, where you point
to the files you want to import and join, type in title and author,
and you can also optionally join selected subsets of files to make
into separate chapters. This works for importing from files in Finder,
tracks in iTunes, or tracks on CDs.
You can also do this yourself in iTunes, and it's quite
straightforward (provided your files have tags to name tracks and
album or artist -- it's still doable, but harder if you have no tags,
all files named track01, track02, etc. and only top level folder names
for mp3 files).
I'll excerpt the links to the programs from a recent list post:
• Audio Bookbinder http://bluezbox.com/audiobookbinder.html
• Audiobook Maker http://audiobookmaker.sourceforge.net/
Both of those are freeware. Another package that is popular is
Splasm's Audiobook Builder ($9.95):
http://www.apple.com/downloads/macosx/ipod_itunes/audiobookbuilder.html
If you want to read instructions for importing into audiobooks using
iTunes, the archived post is:
<http://www.mail-archive.com/macvisionaries%40googlegroups.com/msg21799.html
>
(Re: itunes and audiobook)
HTH. Cheers,
Esther
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