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1. Audiobook builder how to#
2. Audiobook builder for mac os x#
3. Audiobook builder install#
4. Audiobook builder manual#
5. Audiobook builder upgrade#

But most of the other tedious steps are eliminated, and so the amount of attention required drops by 90%. With Audiobook Builder, there’s still the amount of time it takes to import and encode the audio tracks from the CDs that remains constant. This adds up if you are importing books regularly, to feed a 2 hour daily commute. For me, a 10+ disc book is going to take 30-45 minutes of time, minimum. So importing an audiobook from CDs, especially if it’s a long book, can take a fair amount of time. The attention to detail required to get correct results (due to the finicky behavior of iTunes and the iPod with regards to audiobooks) means that it can be hard to multi-task while you’re doing it. This can take quite a while, because there is a wait of up to 10 minutes per disc while it’s being imported.

Audiobook builder manual#

My manual process requires a few steps before and after importing a disc, which are repeated for each disc or track imported. This means that it is easy to import audiobooks correctly, every time, and without painstaking attention to detail. It’s painful, and only the desire to have a good book on your iPod keeps you going.Įxcept for some set-and-forget options to configure the first time you use Audiobook Builder, the process of importing a new audiobook is a sequence of three steps, two of which are dead simple, and the “hard” one is straightforward.Īudiobook Builder deals with all the complexities of audibooks for iTunes and the iPod behind the scenes.

Audiobook builder how to#

If you’ve followed, or even read, my instructions for how to import Audio CD audiobooks into iTunes, you know that the process of importing a series of CDs which are all connected, and which need to be played back in strict order, is a cumbersome task that involves a lot of steps: disc swapping, settings changes, and fiddling with file extensions and iTunes meta data. Update: Audiobook Builder was recently reviewed as a Mac Gem by Macworld, and received a 4½ mouse rating.

Audiobook builder for mac os x#

The only real “problem” with it is that it is for Mac OS X only. This is my first full on software review, and I’m inspired to do so by the quality of the tool: Audiobook Builder is awesome, and at $10 it’s also a bargain.Īudiobook Builder gets my rave review for three reasons:

And in the course of answering hundreds of reader questions, I’ve mentioned and even recommended a few of those tools. I have used it too, just was annoying with a CD rip that I tried it with that added each track as a chapter so it had hundreds of chapters lol.Over the course of importing dozens of audiobooks, I’ve used a variety of techniques and different tools to try to improve my workflow and the final product. Note: even though audacity has export labels.txt and I couldn't figure out how to create chapter markings with m4b-chaps. Then the resulting mp3 files can be used to make an audiobook using m4b-tool merge as detailed above. If not just use the numbering option when using File / Export Multiple files. Edit labels you can name the chapters if you wish. So found out Audacity / Select All / Analyze / Silence Detection (set to 3000ms (3 seconds) finds chapters perfectly and in about a minute. Next tried to use -silence-detection with m4b-tool split and had memory errors and even tried upping memory limit in or whatever but no luck. Wanted to get chapters for some a pre-existing m4b audiobook that had no chapters and do it automatically. So that worked great and works on IINA and BookPlayer (iOS) and shows chapters in the resulting m4b. use-filenames-as-chapters (put the mp3s and appropriately name with the chapters. This speeds it up so much faster (4x faster) than $5 AudioBook Builder on Mac) jobs 4 (I have a quad core CPU so it uses all cores to process. audio-bitrate (done tons of testing and 32kbps with 22050 Hz and AAC using aac_he_v2 (AAC High Efficiency version 2) seems to save about 7MB for a typically audiobook) audio-codec (AAC I think this one is default so might not have to specify this.can't remember) Of course if plays to both left and right but for audio books no need for stereo) skip-cover (I hardly ever use covers otherwise put cover.jpg in same directory as all the mp3 files and don't specify this option)

M4b-tool merge -v -skip-cover -audio-channels 1 -audio-bitrate 32k -audio-samplerate 22050 -audio-codec aac -audio-profile aac_he_v2 -jobs 4 -use-filenames-as-chapters "data/my-audio-book/" -o "data/my-audio-book.m4b"

Audiobook builder upgrade#

Then I wish I read the instructions better but after that's finished upgrade to the latest pre-release (Feb 9, 2021) or if a newer one comes out.

Audiobook builder install#

I spent many hours yesterday screwing around with m4b-tool (command line (win, linux, Mac - free wrapper for ffmpeg to create m4b audiobooks).įollowed the instructions to install on macOS Catalina with brew m4b-tool version 0.4.2 (from August 11, 2019)