Re: tell ipod a recording is an 'audiobook'?

[John K Masters]

On 11:15 Mon 09 Jul , David Brodbeck wrote:
>
> On Jul 5, 2007, at 8:22 PM, Matt Price wrote:
> >i'd like to convince the ipod that these tracks are not music
> >but audiobooks (whatever that really means).
> >
> >does anyone know how to do this?  if it can be done from amarok that's
> >great, otherwise i can use whatever music player is required.
>
> There's a Windows utility that does this, called "MP3 to iPod Audio
> Book Converter".  If anyone knows of a Linux app that does the same
> thing, I'd like to hear about it.
>
>
There is a simpler way. Just convert the MP3 to MP4a using any of the
open source converters and then rename the files with a MP4b extension.
The iPod should then set a bookmark when you stop playing and start
again from the correct place. 

If it is just to differentiate between music and speech then tag the
genre as Audiobook

Regards, John
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Re: tell ipod a recording is an 'audiobook'?

[David Brodbeck]

On Jul 5, 2007, at 8:22 PM, Matt Price wrote:

i'd like to convince the ipod that these tracks are not music
but audiobooks (whatever that really means).

does anyone know how to do this?  if it can be done from amarok that's
great, otherwise i can use whatever music player is required.


There's a Windows utility that does this, called "MP3 to iPod Audio  
Book Converter".  If anyone knows of a Linux app that does the same  
thing, I'd like to hear about it.





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Re: [TLUG]: tell ipod a recording is an 'audiobook'?

[Chris F.A. Johnson]

On Thu, 5 Jul 2007, Matt Price wrote:


gearing up for a very long car trip this summer and ripping all of our
harry potter books-on-cd to mp3 for use on our ipod, whose collection i
currently manage from amarok (1.4.6).  everything is fine except that,
with ca. 20 cd's per book, 20 tracks per cd, harry potter now makes up
about 20 percent of my music collection.  When i put the ipod on
'shuffle', i get harry every fifth song, which is ANNYING, to say the
least.  i'd like to convince the ipod that these tracks are not music
but audiobooks (whatever that really means).


Why are you using something that you don't have control over?


does anyone know how to do this?  if it can be done from amarok that's
great, otherwise i can use whatever music player is required.


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tell ipod a recording is an 'audiobook'?

[Matt Price]

hi,

gearing up for a very long car trip this summer and ripping all of our
harry potter books-on-cd to mp3 for use on our ipod, whose collection i
currently manage from amarok (1.4.6).  everything is fine except that,
with ca. 20 cd's per book, 20 tracks per cd, harry potter now makes up
about 20 percent of my music collection.  When i put the ipod on
'shuffle', i get harry every fifth song, which is ANNYING, to say the
least.  i'd like to convince the ipod that these tracks are not music
but audiobooks (whatever that really means).  

does anyone know how to do this?  if it can be done from amarok that's
great, otherwise i can use whatever music player is required.  

thanks very much, as always!

matt



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