Comments on: Turning MP3 audiobooks into iPod audiobooks

By: Dan

Dan — Fri, 21 Nov 2008 23:40:01 +0000

I just worked this process on an audiobook I bought through emusic that had 174 pieces to it. The Merger utility worked great, combining everything into one long 12 hour mp3. Then the conversion to AAC took 2 hours, but now it’s finished and the process worked GREAT! Itunes 8.1

By: RJS

RJS — Thu, 13 Nov 2008 14:31:44 +0000

this works well, even in v8.1 of itunes … and to get 8.1 to recognize the file as an Audiobook, you have to use the “get info” go to the options tab and select media type as audiobook … and voila! all the way you’d like it.

By: Erik Durfey

Erik Durfey — Wed, 22 Oct 2008 05:50:11 +0000

Did the conversion and works fine in iTunes and on the iPod. That is the files are now protected AAC and bookmarking works. But they still don’t show up in the iPod Audiobooks menu. Thanks

By: Rainer

Rainer — Wed, 15 Oct 2008 15:45:08 +0000

Why don’t you use the free MP3 to iPod Audio converter? It does it all automatically.

By: Cilene

Cilene — Tue, 14 Oct 2008 17:52:40 +0000

please, how can I import the files to the Itunes library?

By: surly

surly — Thu, 25 Sep 2008 03:36:28 +0000

You can also use this method with audio podcasts. Use the built in iTunes AAC converter to make .m4a files of your podcasts (generally mp3 format), locate the files in finder, then change the a to b and voila, your audiobook podcasts will file into your audiobook section. for some reason the MAX app can’t convert podcast files.

By: Lissie

Lissie — Wed, 24 Sep 2008 17:00:57 +0000

I now love it even more… A few parts of my audio book skipped, repeated, and paused in some places. When i converted it, it fixed itself.

I love technology.

By: Lissie

Lissie — Wed, 24 Sep 2008 16:45:34 +0000

Wow, thanks so much!
I downloaded a torrent and, unlike all my other audiobooks, this one was in a different section then my music (where my audiobooks are stored.) and I’ve *really* wanted to know how to do it.

Thanks to the writer. There isn’t a flaw in this that I can see. I’m using a first-generation iPod and this seems to work perfectly!

By: surly

surly — Tue, 23 Sep 2008 20:44:04 +0000

This post was the best method for converting files to the “recognizable audiobook” of the three techniques I tried. I downloaded a free program from apple called MAX which converted the mp3 files to apple lossless m4a files way way faster than using itunes to convert (trust me, I did mass file conversions to test each way). It also let me set up the file name format, which it gets the info from the file tag. Other than the tedious process of changing well over 1500 file extensions (in my case), this post was invaluable in starting my quest. Why the hell doesn’t Apple just have a “record in audiobook format” option on itunes? that would save everyone a lot of time and aggravation.

By: Avi Marcus

Avi Marcus — Sun, 14 Sep 2008 20:48:14 +0000

If you ONLY want to save the position, then just:
right click -> get info -> options -> tick “remember playback position”
Or for multiple files,
right click -> get info -> change “remember position” (bottom middle) to “yes”

I convert to m4b so that I can play them back faster… only a little, but it helps.

By: rachel

rachel — Sun, 14 Sep 2008 02:31:48 +0000

worked for me with my existing mp3s.

1. created apple lossless files
2. made it so i could see file extensions
3. changed from m4a to m4b opened in itunes

viola! audiobook! thnx

By: Arnav

Arnav — Thu, 11 Sep 2008 15:16:24 +0000

Awesome blog….did the same you said…..it worked perfectly…..with vista and itunes8…….

By: BillB

BillB — Tue, 09 Sep 2008 11:28:13 +0000

This sounds like the best solution from Alicia, Was Audiobook Cutter 1 a share ware or was there a cost?

By: Ylva

Ylva — Wed, 03 Sep 2008 15:34:53 +0000

Hi.. I did exactly what you said, but the files got a lot of background noise when I changed them to ACC.. And they still don’t show up as Audiobook on my iPod

By: Julie

Julie — Sun, 24 Aug 2008 19:00:50 +0000

I managed to do everything to convert the files into m4b and works fine on my ipod, but its not in the Audiobooks section on the ipod. What did I do wrong?