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I'm curious: what players do people use so that they feel the need to merge an audiobook into a single file? With VLC, the accuracy of my aim on the time bar wo
by aasasd 8y ago
I'm curious: what players do people use so that they feel the need to merge an audiobook into a single file? With VLC, the accuracy of my aim on the time bar would become nonexistent. Just two days ago I've finally whipped up a script to split books, and not by chapters but into 10-minute chunks.
- sandreas 8y agoMmh perhaps a nice idea to extend m4b-tool to split it into fixed length chunks. Should be not too complex :-) I personally use iTunes with a good old ipod nano, but all Apple products support this type of file. But there are also many good Android apps, that support m4b. Even VLC supports chapters :-) I think the advantages are: - Smaller files than mp3 / better Quality per bitrate - Mp4 / m4a/ m4b is a more versatile format (more tags, chapter, a cover per chapter, etc.) Disadvantages: - Less common (less hardware player support - e.g. car audio) - Less software players support it But for my needs it is way better than having a bunch of mp3 files... Different strokes for different folks ;)
- dewey 8y agoI use Apple Books and it works well with chapters so I usually create the books with https://www.splasm.com/audiobookbuilder/ https://www.splasm.com/audiobookbuilder/
- sandreas 8y agoAudiobookbuilder is nice, but commercial and only available on MacOS... Another open source alternative is Audiobook Binder (http://bluezbox.com/audiobookbinder.html http://bluezbox.com/audiobookbinder.html) - which is good and also comes with a command line utility, but it hat some GUI issues and is only available for MacOS. Another german project for Windows is http://www.audiobookcreator.de/ http://www.audiobookcreator.de/, which works, but it also did not fit my needs - i prefer auto command line merge instead of manual GUI interaction