![]() What should be slick and simple in Apple’s software turns out to be a jury rig. At present, the best app which I could find can’t use the track-based files generated by the Books app, so those discs either have to be ripped in the Music app or by third-party software, before being joined and imported to Books. Turning audiobooks on disc into single m4b audiobook files isn’t possible without third-party software. ![]() Its m4b format supports bookmarks, but Books doesn’t, apart from your current place in each audiobook that you’ve been listening to. Last week I took a look at how this worked out in practice, and realised that the Books app adds little in the way of features to support audiobooks that aren’t already available in the Finder, for unprotected items. Unlike Music and Photos, there’s no option to curate your own library, store it on another volume, or access its contents yourself. It then stores them, along with all my other audiobooks, in a viper’s nest buried in the private container of not the Books app, but a secret book service named BKAgentService, in a path something like ~/Library/Containers//Data/Documents/iBooks/Books/Audiobooks/sha1-98b188d2bf0f7694aeafb3ac3650088f054cf2ed/myBook.m4b. That will even rip them from disc if you wish, but as it isn’t aware that each audiobook consists of a great many tracks, it stupidly turns every individual track into a separate audiobook. Now Apple wants us to buy all our audiobooks from its store, and play them in the Books app. When Macs still came with internal optical drives, it was often easier just to play audiobooks from their original discs. So I have these huge playlists which sort of work. I ‘ripped’ many, but never had the time or patience to plod through iTunes relabelling every track. My audio CD set of the complete series of those radio programmes is one of my most treasured audiobooks, one no longer available from online stores such as Apple’s.Īudiobooks have never been first class citizens in macOS, and those only available from third parties, particularly on CDs, are among the most disenfranchised. I didn’t realise it at the time, but in the summer of 1996 I would meet its author to talk about our common ground of Macs. You can even move projects between Macs, if necessary.Ĭompatibility: OS X 10.There are few events in 1978 that I can recollect as clearly, but at 1030 on the evening of Wednesday 8 March I listened to the first broadcast episode of Douglas Adams’ radio series A Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy. * Quite a memory: Each Audiobook Builder project's audio data is contained in the project document file, so you are free to start a project now, take a break and return to finish your project later. Audiobook Builder can also send its output directly to a special playlist in iTunes. * iTunes integration: Drag and drop straight from iTunes to your Audiobook Builder projects. * Adjustable quality settings: Start with the included presets, but feel free to customize each project's audio settings to suit your personal taste. ![]() * Enhanced chapter stops: Custom artwork you specify will appear in iTunes and on iPods with a color display. * Audio file joining: Already ripped your CDs? There's no need to suffer through it again. When it finishes you get one or a few audiobook tracks in iTunes instead of hundreds or even thousands of music tracks! Join audio, create enhanced chapter stops, adjust quality settings and let Audiobook Builder handle the rest. Audiobook Builder 2.1.1 Multilingual | macOS | 22 mbAudiobook Builder makes it easy to turn your audio CDs, MP3s, M4As, and other audio files into audiobooks for your iPhone, iPod or iPad. ![]()
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