Audiobooks on the iPod

// January 21st, 2006 // My Stuff, Technology Bits

I love listening to audio books on my iPod, but there were two things I was fighting with.

First, CDs I’d previosly ripped had a ton of individual tracks which are annoying. (ex. 384 tracks for Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix)

Second, I want the built-in bookmarkable ability. In other words, when I stop listening at a random place, I want it to pick up where I left off. I know it does it for some files it identifies as audiobooks, but how do I make it do this for ones I want to control. This part is merely the difference between an AAC with a .m4a and a .m4b extension. Though making a change like this to a pile of files could still be cumbersome.

You can solve both of these problems by grabbing a couple AppleScript’s – Join Together and Make Bookmarkable.

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4 Responses to “Audiobooks on the iPod”

John Martin says:

January 22, 2006 at 6:58 pm

As I have been consuming podcasts at a ravenous pace since last summer, I’ve always wanted the ability to throw in markers for significant thoughts so that I could come back to them later.

How cool would it be to have a mechanism to throw in personal bookmarks throughout a ‘cast. Perhaps even to the point that if your MP3 player of choice had voice recording capability that you could have your own thoughts embedded within that podcast as a margin note.

Yeah, that’s the ticket.
zbtirrell says:

January 22, 2006 at 10:53 pm

that would be cool. keep in mind that you can do voice recording on your ipod if you switch it to Linux, doing the recording through your headphones. But, I want that to be tied to a bookmark in a podcast like you suggest.
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January 24, 2006 at 12:20 am

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