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iTunes: Importing (ripping) Book On CD

 
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PostPosted: Tue Nov 17, 2009 9:50 pm    Post subject: iTunes: Importing (ripping) Book On CD Reply with quote

Avoid long track listings by “joining” the contents of a single CD

A typical audio book is made up of a set of CDs. If you import the CDs and make a single playlist for the book as described above, you typically have a very long list of tracks in that playlist. If that bothers you, then you can import all of the contents of a single CD into a single track by “joining” them together during the import process. Here’s how.

1. Insert the first CD of the audio set and wait for iTunes to recognize the CD and list the tracks.

2. If dialog box appears asking you if “you would like to import the CD,” answer no. You still have a few selections to make before you import the CD

3. Select the first track in the list, hold down the shift key, and select the last track in the list. Now all of the tracks from the CD are selected

4. From the menu bar select Options -> Join CD Tracks. If this option is grayed out, you’ve done something wrong. Try to repeat the above steps to correct the problem. If all went as planned, you should see a thin line along the left side of the track listing and a single check box next to the first track.

5. Press the Import CD Settings and change to AAC Encoder. *Not Needed anymore, you can slect the file and then go to Get Info-->Options-->Media Kind (select Audiobook) -->then check the box for Remember Playback Position

6. Press the Import CD button at the upper right corner of the iTunes application. Depending on the size of the CD and the speed of your computer, the import process time will vary. I average between 5 to 10 minutes per import. Keep in mind, the process takes awhile because you’re combining all of the tracks into a single audio file

7. Repeat steps 1 through 5 for each CD in the audio book set. Remember, I’m describing the process for importing an audio book from a CD set, and grouping the audio files into a single track for each CD. This approach basically replicates the CD distribution of the audio book.

At this point you can select all of the “joined” tracks and create a playlist as previously described. Joining tracks leaves you with fewer tracks in the end making the audio book a little easier to manage.

Make your audio book appear in the AudioBook section of the iTunes library

(Note needed see #5 above) Finally, if you don’t want your audio book in a music playlist, here ’s how to get your newly imported audio book to show up in the AudioBooks section of your iTunes library.

1. Find the newly imported files in your iTunes Music library and right click on one of the files.
2. From the pop-up menu, select Get Info.
3. Click on the Summary tab and look near the bottom for the Where information and make note of the folder location for this file.

Note: iTunes imports CDs in the strangest way, which means a set of related CDs like an audio book don’t always end up in the same location. You might have to verify the location of each imported CD as described above so you can relocate them to a single location to make the rest of this process easier.

4. Close iTunes and open Windows Explorer.
5. Navigate to the folder location of the imported file.
6. Right click the file and select rename.
7. Change the file extension from m4a to m4b.
8. A dialog box pops up warning you about changing the file name. Just answer yes when prompted.
9. Repeat steps5 through 8 for each file that makes up the entire audio book CD set.

If you don’t see the file extension in Windows Explorer, you’ll need to rename the file from the good old command prompt (a.k.a DOS prompt):

1. Click on the Windows Start button.
2. Find and click on Run.
3. In the pop-up box type “command.com” and press enter.
4. The command prompt window opens.
5. From here, type “CD <complete path to the folder that contains your file>” and press enter.
6. Once you have reached the correct folder (a.k.a directory), type “DIR” and press enter to confirm that the file you want to rename is where you think it is.
7. If the file shows up in the directory listing, type “RENAME <complete file name>.m4a <complete file name>.m4b“. Notice that you are simply changing the file extension from “m4a” to “m4b“. That’s all. If you have some or all of the files in this folder, you can change all of the extensions at once by typing, “RENAME *.m4a *.m4b” and press enter.
8. Type “DIR” and press enter to verify that all of the audio book files have the new extension “m4b”.

Once you change the file extensions the track listing in iTunes will no longer work. To correct the problem, and to get the audio book to appear in the Audiobook section in iTunes, follow the steps listed below:

1. Start iTunes.
2. Locate the track listing for the previously imported audio book CDs.
3. Select these tracks and press delete.
4. Click the Remove button in the confirmation dialog. This action simply removes the “pointers” to the original files, which no longer exist since we just renamed them all.
5. From the menu bar select File -> Add Folder to Library.
6. Navigate through your folder structure until you reach the folder that contains all of the individual audio book files
7. Click OK.

iTunes will import each file and you should know see an Audiobook icon appear under your library listings. Click on this icon and now your newly imported audio book is right where it belongs — in the Audiobook section of your iTunes library.
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