MP3 to iPod Audiobook Converter
This is a great piece of software that I recently found.
I like to download mp3 audiobooks or lectures (especially iTunes at RTS). I really like the audiobook (m4b) format for a number of reasons. My workflow in the past was to convert the several MP3's in a series to M4A files and then rename the file extension. This allows me to make one massive audiobook out of as many MP3's as I like. I can also split into sections if I desire.
What's nice about this is that I sort of listen to RTS iTunes courses intermittently and I sometime forget if I was one the 20th lecture or the 19th and it takes me a bit of playing each file to see where I last left off. Now I have one huge 10-12 hour file for a 38 series lecture that I can just jump back into wherever I left out.
By the way, my iPod Nano was stolen from a gym the other day (a bit disconcerting because it was taken by a Marine). I wanted to get a Sansa clip but they don't play audiobooks so I ended up getting a 4th generation Nano. It's pretty cool - cheaper than my original Nano and now with 8GB rather than 2GB.
This is a great piece of software that I recently found.
I like to download mp3 audiobooks or lectures (especially iTunes at RTS). I really like the audiobook (m4b) format for a number of reasons. My workflow in the past was to convert the several MP3's in a series to M4A files and then rename the file extension. This allows me to make one massive audiobook out of as many MP3's as I like. I can also split into sections if I desire.
What's nice about this is that I sort of listen to RTS iTunes courses intermittently and I sometime forget if I was one the 20th lecture or the 19th and it takes me a bit of playing each file to see where I last left off. Now I have one huge 10-12 hour file for a 38 series lecture that I can just jump back into wherever I left out.
By the way, my iPod Nano was stolen from a gym the other day (a bit disconcerting because it was taken by a Marine). I wanted to get a Sansa clip but they don't play audiobooks so I ended up getting a 4th generation Nano. It's pretty cool - cheaper than my original Nano and now with 8GB rather than 2GB.