Comments on: Turning MP3 audiobooks into iPod audiobooks

By: Friends

Friends — Thu, 08 Oct 2009 14:57:58 +0000

Vielen Dank für diesen Vorschlag. Ich schicke Dir einen Gruß aus Deutschland.

Thanks for the suggestion. I send you regards from Germany.

By: TSP in NYC

TSP in NYC — Mon, 28 Sep 2009 02:41:22 +0000

I bought my iPod with audiobooks in mind, but my audio books are on CDs and each book has about 900 files. I have to rename each file individually? Looks like I just wasted a couple hundred dollars.

By: GaryW

GaryW — Sun, 23 Aug 2009 13:06:35 +0000

As an alternative to converting to m4b consider keeping the files as mp3’s and using a tag editor to change them into podcasts. They will then show up in your ipod as podcasts which remember your place like m4b’s. With this method there is no conversion process. Works well for MP3’s but probably works with the other ipod supported formats. Also has the added advantage of being able to group common “podcast” files into something like “folders”.

By: Tommy

Tommy — Thu, 23 Jul 2009 07:06:57 +0000

Ok it seems to me after i looked a bit that your main instructions on your main home page is for CDs because ive looked and several others have agreed with me (friends of mine). i have been getting torrents off of the internet,(www.thepiratebay.com,www.isohunt.com) though they all seem easy many of them come in one main file and go straight into your audiobooks file in Itunes Library, however those that do not go into your music with MULTIPLE (as in hundreds)of files. i have been able to right click the albums and click get info from there i go over to options and go down to media kind and select audiobook and this works it brings it down to the audiobooks folder. However my main issue which bothers me is that i want to get rid of the 423 files (book example – Brisingr) and make it into 1 or 2 files… however i have tried tons of converters and splitters and joiners. i have no idea what to do now…any suggestions?

By: ube

ube — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 18:33:43 +0000

I created a script for this instead:

http://blog.autopsy.se/2009/02/converting-audiobooks-to-m4b-sucks

By: Keith

Keith — Thu, 11 Jun 2009 03:18:44 +0000

Absolutely, “Thanks Trent (comment 159) that worked a treat!!!!”
And to paraphrase from below, “sooo much easier in 8.2″

By: James

James — Mon, 18 May 2009 15:18:15 +0000

http://j2jensen.blogspot.com/2005/05/m4a-to-m4b-file-converter.html A tool to help Windows users rename m4a files to m4b, and clean up outdated library links in iTunes.

By: ishmaeldaro

ishmaeldaro — Wed, 13 May 2009 08:17:54 +0000

http://audiobookmaker.sourceforge.net/
A free mac program that saves us all some trouble.

By: SHian

SHian — Fri, 08 May 2009 18:05:39 +0000

Thanks for the help…got it done. Audiobooked the latest Edition of the Economist in hopes it’ll help me for my eco exam lol.
Thnx again, cy@..

By: Arnold Grundel

Arnold Grundel — Tue, 28 Apr 2009 21:26:28 +0000

I wish I had an iPod. I still have an MP3, it works like a charm but is the quality of the audio books better in the iPod or MP3?

By: Walter

Walter — Fri, 24 Apr 2009 00:14:16 +0000

Hi everybody, I want to tell you that I even found software for converting .mp3 files to .m4b files but now I’ve realize that, itunes, at least the newest version, places any files you select in the audiobook section. All you have to do is right click on the file/get info/options and select audiobook and you’re done!

By: Bobby

Bobby — Mon, 20 Apr 2009 04:33:09 +0000

Thanks Trent (comment 159) that worked a treat!!!! And sooo much easier in 8.1

By: ryan

ryan — Wed, 11 Mar 2009 07:25:53 +0000

this works great for me, I have the latest ipod nano too! thanks for the info!

By: eternalko

eternalko — Tue, 10 Mar 2009 09:43:38 +0000

GuAVOROV, THANKS!!!

By: Nikil

Nikil — Sun, 08 Mar 2009 04:04:22 +0000

Awesome post and thanks for the comments !!!

By: Jeff

Jeff — Sat, 17 Jan 2009 19:41:09 +0000

Hey Stephie, .wma is not a supported extension by iTunes in OS X. You need the extension to be .mp3. There is conversion software out there if you look though so you can convert your book from .wma to .mp3, then you should be able to add it to your iPod and iTunes.

By: Natalia

Natalia — Fri, 02 Jan 2009 20:44:58 +0000

I just wanted to thank you!
Tou're my salvation. Everything you posted is SO USEFULL and you get right to the point, and everything is very well explained.
Thank you alot!

By: stephanie

stephanie — Wed, 31 Dec 2008 16:11:31 +0000

Hi,
I’m doing something wrong. I have iTunes 8 and a Mac OS 10.5.5. I configured itunes as described above. I downloaded an audiobook but can’t take any of the next steps. The book I downloaded has a .wma extension. Is that my problem?
thanks
stephanie

By: Trent

Trent — Sun, 28 Dec 2008 21:38:01 +0000

Ok I have iTunes 8. I was playing around and found an easier way to turn mp3’s into audiobooks… I’m not sure if it works with everything but let me know.

First, put the file in your itunes library.
Second, find it (probably in music)
Third, right click the “song.”
From here:

Get info >Options > (where it says “Media kind: Music”
change the “music” to audiobook in the dropdown list.)

Click ok and it should be moved to “audiobooks” under “library”

By: Bob Canning

Bob Canning — Wed, 24 Dec 2008 19:58:28 +0000

hi ,i have a creative zen touch 20gb player and use it for audiobooks but it doesnt do it very successfully do yuo think i could try this out using yuor method not on an ipod but an pretty plain mp3 player