Comments on: Homegrown Audio Books and iPod

By: Jason L. Froebe

Jason L. Froebe — Fri, 25 Dec 2009 21:30:22 +0000

You can do the same thing without iTunes (might be useful for batch processing of mp3s -> m4b w/chapters):

Even though it says for Linux, it’ll work on OSX, MS Windows, *BSD, etc.

How to create an iTunes/iPod compatible audiobook (MPEG4 m4b) on Linux using MP4Box and mp4v2: http://froebe.net/blog/2009/12/24/how-to-create-an-itunesipod-compatible-audiobook-mpeg4-m4b-on-linux-using-mp4box-and-mp4v2-v1-9-1-it-can-be-done/

Hope this helps

jason

By: Alan

Alan — Thu, 13 Dec 2007 23:13:06 +0000

JH : No suggestions at this point, I’ll try to re-work this when I get some more material to change around.

Naisioxerloro: Which design, the layout and blog design or the diagram of the original process? The layout is a modification of the seashore theme you can find at http://wpthemeshop.com/free-themes/ , the diagram was made using Omni Graffle Pro from the Omni Group ( http://www.omnigroup.com/ )

By: naisioxerloro

naisioxerloro — Wed, 28 Nov 2007 15:15:23 +0000

Hi.
Good design, who make it?

By: JH

JH — Fri, 12 Oct 2007 06:35:57 +0000

I did the mpg123 -s input.mp3 | faac -b 80 -P -X -w -o output.m4b – thing, but my resulting file sounds like donald duck, i.e. the speech is speeded up.

So I tried fiddeling with the mpg123 program, and found that if i use

mpg123 -r 48000 –stereo

it sounds correct, except that lots of clicks gets in the audio.

Don’t know what to do about it. Any suggestions?

By: ttkb » Blog Archive » Convert MP3’s to M4A

ttkb » Blog Archive » Convert MP3’s to M4A — Wed, 03 Oct 2007 16:38:56 +0000

[...] seems to work fine (The article specified Mac OSX, but it works fine on my Debian box. Just apt-get mpg123), but I’m still [...]

By: Abel

Abel — Fri, 20 Apr 2007 15:16:22 +0000

I’m not so ‘pc savvy’. so How do you rename the file to m4b when windows won’t let you see the file extension like the old days?

By: Convert Tape » Blog Archive » Convert audio tape to mp3 - Convert Mp3 To Audio Cd Tool | In Line Mp3 Car Audio | Convert Audio

Tue, 30 May 2006 11:13:34 +0000

[...] Polyphase >> Homegrown Audio Books and iPod should have foo.m4b that iTunes will think is an audio What about a tool to convert MP3 to AIFF and then something to All very handy compared to the vanilla 30 minute MP3 file of a cassette tape [...]

By: anon

anon — Wed, 22 Mar 2006 05:53:32 +0000

@Adam Roach

mpg123 -s input.mp3 | faac -b 80 -P -X -w -o output.m4b -
^^ For little endian x86 systems

By: Bob

Bob — Sat, 31 Dec 2005 21:46:09 +0000

Enrique thankyou for you comment, I was looking for a free MP3 combiner. Thanks alot!

By: Enrique

Enrique — Tue, 07 Jun 2005 00:07:01 +0000

That last way of doing it is awesome! changing the files to .m4b works seamlessly! Use Wavepad to combine a number of MP3′s into 1. It’s free!