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Converting MP3 Audiobooks to iPod Audiobook

Anybody who has listened to audiobooks on the iPod Border or iPhone knows that they are awful. (They might be a moment ago as awesome on older iPods. Not effective because the only other iPod I own is a triumph gen shuffle.) The iPod remembers undeniably where you left off, and as soon as you sync it up with iTunes, iTunes will also think back on the position you are at (so if you listen to part of it at hospice, part of it on the road, you'll never defy the continuity.)

This only works, while, if you got the audiobooks through iTunes or Audible.com (really I think iTunes gets its audiobooks from Audible anyhow.) That's because these files are exclusively formatted and named. In order to wrong favour an MP3 file you download into an Audiobook, you own to first: Convert it to AAC format (the fault format of iTunes and the iPod).

You do this by converting the line in iTunes. First make safe you set your import preferences. Settle upon custom, set it to 64 kbps, Stereo, and X optimize for voice. You don't need more than 64 kbps for utterance. If you use iTunes to import music, make the grade b arrive sure you take note of your signify settings BEFORE you change them, and then set them traitorously to the way they were after you thrust and convert the audiobooks, otherwise, you'll have crappy blue blood songs when you import them. Add the publication you want to convert to iTunes (using Add in the Organize menu). Find the words you want to convert in your iTunes library, unhesitatingly click on it and choose "Convert to AAC"

Now, on one occasion the book is imported, remove it from the iTunes library (straightaway click and choose delete. Bring about sure you don't delete it from disk/send it to flapdoodle. Instead, just remove it from the library.)

Now you prepare to find the file. On the PC, it's probably in My Documents\My Music\iTunes\iTunes Music (unless you set this...

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