Re: a perplexing iTunes issue

2012-02-13 Thread Sarah Alawami
Actually I did [[rate 250]] and selected all 30 pages. It only recorded about in one case 4 minutes of the document. I had to use the say command to get it done. On Feb 13, 2012, at 8:05 AM, Esther wrote: > Hi Sarah, David, and Zack, > > I'm late to this thread, but I have a few quick comments.

Re: a perplexing iTunes issue

2012-02-13 Thread Esther
Hi Sarah, David, and Zack, I'm late to this thread, but I have a few quick comments. If the workflow Sarah uses is the Services menu option, "Add to iTunes as a Spoken Track", it will use the default encoding format for the m4a file. This is 128 kbps variable bit rate at CD quality sampling (

Re: a perplexing iTunes issue

2012-02-10 Thread Sarah Alawami
Acutally I round the work around maybe. I left the dialogue there for about half an hour and came back and the full 30 page document showed up as an m4a file. If I have to do this every time tha'ts rediculous but Im willing to be patient. On Feb 10, 2012, at 3:25 PM, David Griffith wrote: > I t

Re: a perplexing iTunes issue

2012-02-10 Thread Zachary Kline
Hi David and all, There are also third-party utilities designed to do this sort of thing, such as SayIt, which is available in the Mac App Store. I've used this to convert large texts before, without any of these strange issues. I'm not sure why they should be happening, but wanted to share my t

RE: a perplexing iTunes issue

2012-02-10 Thread David Griffith
I think this may be a limitation. I am also using Lion and when I tried to do this with a 30 page text document last week it completely failed. As you say small clips are fine but anything substantial and I-tunes does not appear able to cope . I guess I could split the file up into smaller seg