New tool: Audiobook Builder
Posted 1 year, 8 months ago by AldereteI have not yet given it a try, but a new application for Mac OS X looks like it may be even better than Join Together 5, which I recommended back in July. Audiobook Builder appears to go quite a bit beyond what Join Together is able to do, including the ability merge individual CD tracks into chapters before merging the chapters into a chapter marked whole-book track, add artwork to each chapter, etc.
My initial suspicion, based solely on looking at the screenshots, is that it may be a little complicated if your needs are simple. For myself, I usually only want to merge entire CDs into chapters, which iTunes does if you use the Advanced > Join Tracks command, and then join those into a whole book, with chapter marks and full audiobook format and metadata, which Join Together does quite ably, and very simply.
In any event, I’ll be giving Audiobook Builder a try in the near future, and I’ll post a full review then, but in the meantime, I wanted to point to it, and see what other people think.
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October 31st, 2006 at 8:36 am
I checked Audiobook Builder out and it’s among the best tools I have ever used. It’s beautiful, sleek and works perfectly without any Quicktime windows popping up and freezing it so you cannot do anything else while converting.
I converted quite a couple of my Audiobooks this way. I like especially the way how tracks from different CDs can be joined into one chapter. Of course it’s shareware but for 10 bucks, it’s a steal.
I love it. I think every audiobook fan should give it a try. The demo is limited to 20 minutes of audio material though but it took me only two spins and 10 minutes to get my PayPal account ready.
December 4th, 2006 at 11:37 am
I really found your blog entries on audiobooks useful, thanks! I have one remaining question…in Windows, is it possible to join together multiple audiobook tracks into one track AND put a chapter mark between each track (i.e., preserve the multiple-CD structure in the file that’s created). Thanks! Mark