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Posted by Gary on 10/16/12 11:51
I bought an expensive iPod and am finding it to be a pain in the tail
setting up files to read (or listen to) as books. Here's an example
of what I'm faced with:
I have this Teaching Company course as 216 mp3 files. Here are the
file names:
0101 Beethoven And The Piano.mp3
0102 Beethoven And The Piano.mp3
0103 Beethoven And The Piano.mp3
0104 Beethoven And The Piano.mp3
0105 Beethoven And The Piano.mp3
0106 Beethoven And The Piano.mp3
0107 Beethoven And The Piano.mp3
0108 Beethoven And The Piano.mp3
0109 Beethoven And The Piano.mp3
0201 Homage To Mozart.mp3 through 0209 Homage To Mozart.mp3
0301 The Grand Sonata, Part 1.mp3 through 0309 The Grand Sonata, Part
1.mp3
0401 The Grand Sonata, Part 2.mp3 ... 0409 The Grand Sonata, Part
2.mp3
0501 Meaning And Metaphor.mp3 ... 0509 Meaning And Metaphor.mp3
0601 The Striking And Subverive, Op 10 Continued..mp3 ... 0609 The
Striking And Subverive, Op 10 Continued..mp3
0701 The Pathetique And The Sublime.mp3 ... 0709 The Pathetique And
The Sublime.mp3
0801 The Opus 14 Sonatas.mp3 ... 0809 The Opus 14 Sonatas.mp3
0901 Motives, Bach and a Farewell to the 18th Century.mp3 ... 0909
Motives, Bach and a Farewell to the 18th Century.mp3
1001 A Genre Redefined.mp3 ... 1009 A Genre Redefined.mp3
1101 Sonata quasi una fantasia-The Moonlight.mp3 ... 1109 Sonata quasi
una fantasia-The Moonlight.mp3
1201 Lesser Siblings and a Pastoral Interlude.mp3 ... 1209 Lesser
Siblings and a Pastoral Interlude.mp3
1301 The Tempest.mp3 ... 1309 The Tempest.mp3
1401 A Quartet Of Sonatas.mp3 ... 1409 A Quartet Of Sonatas.mp3
1501 The Waldstein and the Heroic Style.mp3 ... 1509 The Waldstein and
the Heroic Style.mp3
1601 The Appassionata and the Heroic Style.mp3 ... 1609 The
Appassionata and the Heroic Style.mp3
1701 They Deserve Better, Part 1.mp3 ... 1709 They Deserve Better,
Part 1.mp3
1801 They Deserve Better, Part 2.mp3 ... 1809 They Deserve Better,
Part 2.mp3
1901 The Farewell Sonata.mp3 ... 1909 The Farewell Sonata.mp3
2001 Experiments In A Dark Time.mp3 ... 2009 Experiments In A Dark
Time.mp3
2101 The Hammerklavier, Part 1.mp3 ... 2109 The Hammerklavier, Part
1.mp3
2201 The Hammerklavier, Part 2.mp3 ... 2209 The Hammerklavier, Part
2.mp3
2301 In A World Of His Own.mp3 ... 2309 In A World Of His Own.mp3
2401 Reconciliation.mp3 ... 2409 Reconciliation.mp3
I want to combine each set of 9 files into one, producing 24 files
01 Beethoven And The Piano.mp3
02 Homage To Mozart.mp3
03 The Grand Sonata, Part 1.mp3
04 The Grand Sonata, Part 2.mp3
05 Meaning And Metaphor.mp3
06 The Striking And Subverive.mp3
07 The Pathetique And The Sublime.mp3
08 The Opus 14 Sonatas.mp3
09 Motives, Bach and a Farewell t.mp3
10 A Genre Redefined.mp3
11 Sonata quasi una fantasia-The.mp3
12 Lesser Siblings and a Pastoral.mp3
13 The Tempest.mp3
14 A Quartet Of Sonatas.mp3
15 The Waldstein and the Heroic Style.mp3
16 The Appassionata and the Heroi.mp3
17 They Deserve Better, Part 1.mp3
18 They Deserve Better, Part 2.mp3
19 The Farewell Sonata.mp3
20 Experiments In A Dark Time.mp3
21 The Hammerklavier, Part 1.mp3
22 The Hammerklavier, Part 2.mp3
23 In A World Of His Own.mp3
24 Reconciliation.mp3
I used MP3 Merger and succeeded, but it was a lot of manual work. It
took somewhere between 1/2 hour and 1 hour to do it.
I am hoping that someone on this group knows a better way to do jobs
like this, which are the bulk of what I listen to on the iPod. It
would be so much easier if the iPod supported stopping and restarting
playlists (you can stop and restart individual files, if you know
which file you were listening to when you stopped). Then I wouldn't
merge at all, and just move all 216 files under one playlist. I could
stop and start and resume where I left off. But alas, iPod doesn't do
this, and the 24 files are a compromise to creating one enormous file
(which can be resumed, but iPod gets into trouble with very large
files)
I hope someone has some bright ideas, and thanks in advance for any
help you might offer.
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