The upper limit is 10 hours which should work with all iPod models. If needed, the book can be automatically split into parts. If no changes are made here faacs standard settings are used. Experienced users can adjust faacs quality settings in the faac command line. Set the ouput filename if the automatically generated one does not please you. Adjust the audiobooks metadata and add a cover file. sort, rename, remove or add chapters as you wish. If no tags are found, file information is guessed from the filename.ģ. The files id3tags are read automatically. click 'Add', mark all soundfiles that should be includes in the book, additional files can be added later. For the command line interface, run 'm4baker -h' in a terminal.Ģ. start 'm4baker' from the 'Applications-> Sound & Video' Menu. If enough harddisk space (700MB per CD) is availible, i suggest ripping to. Once m4baker is installed, rip your audibook cd using your favorite software. Skip this step if the audiobook CD is already ripped. checkinstall and build-essential can be uninstalled as they are not needed anymore. It is now save to remove the downloaded tarballs and the created directories. Sudo checkinstall python setup.py install Sudo aptitude install build-essential checkinstall mpeg4ip-utils sox faac python-qt4 libsox-fmt-all Install the dependencies, on ubuntu 10.04 lucid run: vlc, so you wont need kde and it integrates nicely into every Desktop. M4Baker is NOT a KDE but a Qt-app like e.g. Python, sox, faac, mp4v2 (inclusive utils, i.e mp4chaps and mp4tags) pyqt and Qtįor the CLI mode please use version 0.1.2 since it was removed in 0.1.90 * split audiobooks into parts automaticallyĪs this program is primary for educational purposes, any suggestions and critics regarding my code are very welcome. * sort input files by filename or id3-tag (tracknumber) * support for many different input file types * add cover picture from various filetypes It is based on my python-based tool M4Baker:Ī simple tool for creating ipod-compatible, full-featured m4b-audiobooks. This guide is intended to show how to create m4b audiobook files, complete with chapter markers, cover, tags and iPod-compatible.

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