Well, shoot. It's not working for me. I also join the tracks using Audiobooker (applescript) With Doug's new fix which I downloaded it doesn't time out and it now says done. But I can't find it in iTunes anywhere. When you say that the m4a is in the trash, what trash? The one on the system (desktop) or is there a trash in iTunes itself? terry On Feb 9, 2008, at 12:22 PM, Ken Stevens wrote: > Ok, I just tried it again. I ripped two tracks from CD as AAC > files. I then tried to convert both to > bookmarkable. After one was converted I got "event timed out" > error, but the first track was converted. > I then tried the second track and it worked. Both tracks are now > listed under Audio Books and I have > the original m4a files in the trash. > > When I rip a book I "join the tracks" (Advanced Menu) into one AAC > file per CD. I did this because I > was losing the last word of the narration of each segment. Joining > the tracks solved this problem. > Because the file is "bookmarkable" having one large file per CD > isn't a problem. >