tell ipod a recording is an 'audiobook'?

[Matt Price]

On Fri, 2007-06-07 at 07:51 -0400, Steph Fox wrote:
> Hi Matt,
> 
> > >  When i put the ipod on
> > > 'shuffle', i get harry every fifth song, which is ANNYING, to say the
> > > least.  i'd like to convince the ipod that these tracks are not music
> > > but audiobooks
> 
> If your encoder engine supports m4b files (the aac audiobook format),
> encode into that. Your iPod *should* skip over them in shuffle mode
> (since it considers them 'books' and assumes you want to shuffle
> 'music').
> 
> > > (whatever that really means).
> 
> Basically? That they're in m4b or aa (Audible's) format. m4b remembers
> where you left off in an audiobook track (if you switch to music or
> another book), Audible files do the same (except with DRM).
> 
ah, ok.  well, i've been using abcde to encode to mp3 and wav.  on
ubuntu,
apt-cache search m4b
returns no results.  do you know of an encoder that manages m4b
conversion?

thanks,

matt



> Cheers,
> 
> Steph
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