Recently I got some MP3 audio books from a magazine CD. I wanted to upload them to my iPod so that I can listen to them during my compute to office. But then I found that these were in MP3 format and not in iPod audio book format.
The main feature of the iPod audio book format is that the iPod can remember the last listening position and also we can adjust the reading speed in case, which is not possible if it is in MP3 format.
I started looking for a program to convert MP3 files to iPod audio book format and found an excellent program MP3 to iPod Audio Book Converter. It is free, opensource and the best part is that it works.
Download the program and install it. Once installed start the program from start menu and then click the Add button.
Select the MP3 files and then click the Open button. (You can also press shift to select multiple files)
Arrange the files in the correct order and then click the Start Conversion button. You can also edit the tags if you want.
The program will ask to specify the file name and once given it will start the conversion.
Once the program finishes you can add the file to iTunes and then sync it with iPod. Happy Listening 🙂
Links:
You can download MP3 to iPod Audio Book Converter from its download page.
You can also get some free Audio book from AudioBooksForFree.com
Hi,
Thanks for the info. I think this will be useful. As far as I know, only audible is selling iPod-format audiobooks outside of the iTunes.
If you are used to listening to audiobooks, you may also want to take a look at fiction audiobooks for more choices.
Let me know what you think.
Cheers.
Yes. Had such problem too. But I found good converter – MelodyCan (http://www.melodycan.com)
@Hou,
Nice to know that you found this useful.
Help? I followed your instructions and converted several books, synced them to my Nano 3rd gen without any issues. Thanks! However…they all show under audiobooks but all but one book does not begin with chapter one. It’s like all the books but one shuffled the chapters. They were converted in correct sequence. Any idea what I did to get one correct but the others not and how to fix this situation? Thanks!
I know NewFiction.com provides an MP3 format. They are free as well.
Tom
I have been looking for something to convert my mp3 audio books to my ipod as well…for free…I really found this posting useful. I also found another site that offers a free converter as well. The website is http://www.snapfiles.com/get/ipodaudiobook.html
Thanks for the great post.
Great find! Some music gadgets can’t play AAC files. Here’s a way of converting AAC to MP3. See this link http://mp3toaacconvert.com