Audio Book Builder

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Some while ago I was having a conversation with my friend Mike Potter from the formaceyesonly podcast about the awful way iTunes imports Audiobooks that I own on CD, or rather doesn’t import in a way that is useable.

After both agreeing that iTunes doesn’t do a very good job, he pointed me to a product that I have used a lot since AudioBook Builder . Since my girls have a number of audiobooks all on CD, they still want to listen to them but on their iPods.

If you’ve never tried importing an audio book into iTunes, you haven’t experienced the way it seems to randomly name the files or if it doesn’t randomly name them, it doesn’t seem to put them in the correct order, and even if it puts them in order it then sees them as music. Guess what iTunes does every time you play music? Yep, you got it, it starts at the very beginning, now as Julie Andrews said in the sound of Music, it’s a very good place to start, but not when you want to listen to a book where you left off.

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