Hi Justin, I suspect that when you hear the last second of your imported audiobook tracks cut off, that may be do to the cross-fade setting in iTunes playback. Try bringing up your iTune preferences menu (Command+comma), navigate to Playback (Command+2, or you can navigate to the Playback button in the titlebar and press it with VO+Space), then navigate to "Crossfade Songs" and either uncheck the check box (VO+Space) or navigate to the slider, interact, and adjust the value way down (maximum is 12 seconds, and it may be set there as a default.)
The other thing you could do is follow ShamelessFanGirl's suggestion, and rip your audiobook CDs as a single, joined track -- either MP3 or AAC. When the CD is inserted in your drive, you want to select all (Command-a) in the songs table and then choose the "join CD tracks" option in the "Advanced" menu on the iTunes menu bar before you start importing. This option will be dimmed if you have not first selected the tracks, because there will be nothing to join. Jane has posted detailed instructions on list about ripping audiobooks this way with iTunes, and if you go to the secondary Mail Archive site for this list at: http://www.mail-archive.com/macvisionaries%40googlegroups.com/ and type in the search text box "from:Jane join tracks" (without the quotation marks, but with the colon after the "from" and before "Jane" with no space around the colon), then press "return", you should get her post. Alternatively, if you are willing to change the audiobook to AAC format, for playing on the iPod Touch, you can get either Audiobook Binder (free) or Audiobook Builder ($5.95) from the Mac App Store, and automate the process of ripping your audiobook into a single (or a few) files, including adding chapter markers for navigating within the text. Audiobook Builder gives you some more options with metadata and I think the user interface is more robust, but either one should work. Both these software applications convert to .m4b file, though, so if it is important for you to maintain mp3 format (for compatibility with other devices), you might try joining by tracks. If you have multiple mp3 audiobook files and want to play them, the easy way is to create a smart playlist. If you want to read up more about that, try going to the Mail Archive site given above, and type in "smart playlists audiobooks" into the search text field and press return. Then read the first few linked posts that come up in the list for an overview of how do to this. The third or so link will be a somewhat lengthy post introducing smart playlists and describing how they work. There have been a few changes (mostly, added features) since that post was written, but it covers all the key concepts. HTH. Cheers, Esther On Jul 11, 2011, at 05:11, ShamelessFanGirl wrote: > Good morning, > > This is perhaps grossly basic, but I'm beginning at ground level to avoid > giving you mis-information. Do you find this behavior persists if you rip the > disc in one track? select all the tracks, go to advanced, and have it rip > your disc that way. Definitely report back with your findings, or feel free > to contact me offlist. > > Have a good one, and I hth > > > > Foursquare: IndigoCellist > > Twitter: @IndigoCellist > > Skype: shameless_FanGirl > > Sent from my iPhone > > On Jul 11, 2011, at 8:34 AM, "Justin Ekis" <je...@fastmail.us> wrote: > >> Hi all, >> >> I recently purchased an audiobook on CD, and I'm trying to copy it to my >> computer for use on the iPod touch. I'm experiencing a small issue while >> trying to do this with iTunes. The last second or two of each track is >> getting cut off. I've never seen anything like this when ripping music CDs. >> As expected, everything sounds fine when I play the CD directly in itunes. I >> guess I could put up with this if I had to, since I can still understand >> exactly what should have been said, but I just thought I'd ask here before >> giving up. Does anyone know how to prevent this behavior? >> >> Thanks, >> >> Justin >> -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en.
