[X4U] Audio Books on iPod

[Richard Gilmore]

I've noticed with my iPod that "place keepers" do work with mp3s it has no
problem picking up where it's left off whether I pause it and it shuts down
by itself or I shut it down. Don't know about the Shuffle.

Richard

On 4/20/05 1:45 PM, "Neil Cadsawan" <rainer3 at mac.com> wrote:

> On 20 Apr, 2005, at 1:35 PM, Mark Des Cotes wrote:
> 
>> Hi all,
>> 
>> I was just browsing the iPod web site and it mentioned how iTunes and
>> iPods can add bookmarks (place keepers) to audio books but only if
>> they're in .aa (from Audible.com) or .m4b (from iTunes Music Store)
>> format. I have a bunch of audio books in mp3 format. Is there a way to
>> convert mp3s into either .aa or .m4b files? I searched both
>> VersionTracker and MacUpdate without any luck. Is this possible?
>> 
>> Mark Des Cotes
>> Systems Manager/Graphic Designer
> 
> I forgot to mention that this script only converts AAC to M4B, not MP3.
>    So you'll have to use iTunes to convert the MP3 files to AAC, and
> that will create some digital artifacts in the files and hence, lower
> quality files. Unfortunately, this is the only way I know of to create
> bookmarkable files for iTunes.
> 
> -Neil
> 
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