Posted by Sla#s on 10/18/07 22:22

Tim923 wrote:
> I have several audiobooks. Some of them have hundreds of MP3 files.
> Is there an iPod/MP3 player that is good for audiobooks in which a
> folder may have hundreds of mp3 files?
>
> I have an MP3-CD player (not a flash player) that has an "advance 10
> track button, instead of having to advance 1 painful track at a time,
> but it's not a flash player. Do iPods have such a feature? With my
> Slim iRiver portable MP3-CD player, all folders and subfolders are
> sorted in alphanumeric/alphabetical order, with all MP3s sorted the
> same way, and it goes thru and sorts and plays the MP3s that way. So
> an MP3 may have the track number 258 if the audiobook has 500 MP3s,
> and each MP3 has its own track number. Are any iPods setup this way?
> I'm behind the times with flash players, but can they sort and play
> that way.
>
> I have a SanDisk 1GB flash player. It advances 1 track at a time, and
> plays albums based on the MP3 tags. Thanks.

It is a bit of a pain to set up but an iPod can accept a file *.m4b, which
it recognises as an Audiobook and keeps in it's "Audiobook" folder. The pain
bit is converting all the mp3 files into one m4b but I find it worthwhile.
M4b files are M3a (called AAC) files manually renamed.
You can of course just buy them as such from iTunes. But I just convert them
from CDs.
First I join the Mp3s with "MakeItOne" then I convert to m4a with
"dBpoweramp" then rename the single m4a file to m4b.
Then you can put it in iTunes and it will appear in your iPod as a single
book. You then ask iPod to remember it's place and Bobs you uncle :-)
Note: You can use iTunes to rip the CD as AAC (Which has the m4a file name)
but then the book will appear as possibly hundreds of files instead as one.

Slatts

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