My Media: adding files to sell on your store

How to handle spoken word audio such as sermons and audio books is very important. Becuase most CD recorders add ID's every 3-5 minutes, it is very important that you either label your files accurately ie Chapter 1, Chapter 2 etc, or join all of your ID's and make one long audio file. Here is what we suugest:

For Windows Users

If you are using iTunes on Windows, there is a free tool called MP3 to iPod Audio Book Converter that will allow you to take a collection of MP3 tracks, and do two things:

• Merge the tracks into a single, long track.
• Convert the track from MP3 to AAC, and change the file type to make iTunes consider it an audiobook.

There are some limitations. First, you need to start with your audiobook tracks in MP3 format, not AAC format as my instructions recommend. Just choose the MP3 encoder when you set your iTunes import settings, instead of AAC, before you import your audiobooks. Second, the tool does not add chapter marks in between the tracks. It’s one long track. While iTunes and your iPod will save your place, allow you to speed up or slow down playback, and let you scrub through the track, there’s no navigating by chapters, i.e., clicking forward or backward to skip to the next chunk.

For Mac Users

If you are a Mac OS X user we suggest Join Together AppleScript application put together by Doug Adams of Doug’s AppleScripts for iTunes.

• It works within iTunes (with a separate application for entering audiobook information).
• It handles AAC and MP3 files equally well, and turns out perfect audiobooks every time.
• It adds chapter marks at the track boundaries.
• It’s straightforward.
• It’s free (though donations are requested, and it’s well worth making a small contribution).

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