Best Way to Burn Audible Books to CD's?-- PC and Mac
Edit 7-1-04. As promised, finally got around to posting Complete Beginner?s Guide: Burning audible books to CD with iTunes or Audible Manager Step-by-Step for both iTunes and Audible Manager.
Suggest you visit above link for a more coherent and simplified solution than my ramblings below.
Edit 5-5-04. Some Solutions Links
A PC user can burn with either iTunes or Audible Manager. A mac user can burn only with iTunes.
Below describes how to burn a portion of an audiobook in iTunes (PC or Mac). This is necessary to recover from a bad burn or interruption when you have to start over. That is:
In the quote below lies the solution for iTunes (PC Or Mac) burning partials to recover, waste of blanks, and some of the problems discussed. That is, with book to be burned highlighted, click File/get info/select options tab/enter start time and stop time. or, right click/get info... etc.
Finally found these on Audible site (their search feature leaves a bit to be desired):
CD Burning with iTunes and your Mac
General CD Burning Questions for Windows
Apple site tutorial --Burning your music to a CD
This applies to PC as well. I recommend that you click on the movie button because that shows the screens.
End of Edit.
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What is the best way to burn an aubible book to cd?
A couple of us have been exchanging pm's on how best to burn CD's from audible audio books on both Mac and PC and need help.
I had been using Audible Manager to burn audio CD's for quite some time. With the advent of Audible Download Manager and iTunes 4.5, last evening I burned my first audiobook cd with iTunes. It was not a great experience. It appears if you leave iTunes to itself that it terminates the process with no marker for where or how to take up where iTunes quit. In addition, I had three failures to burn which interrupted the entire process. I have not found a way to satisfactorily recover from these failures other than to manually calculate time for the progress and gaps and then go to Audible Manager to specifically burn the rest of the audio book or the gap. I wasted six cd blanks in what was ultimately a 13 cd burn.
Will iTunes provide progress and interrupt capabilities? When I left my computer doing a burn, it terminated after the last cd I inserted. Is there a way to avoid this? Is there a way to recover from, say, the last cd not burning, and instructing iTunes to begin at the last successful burn? Is there a way to determine where that point is other than adding all the times on all the cd's burned so far. Seems like each cd is either 1:19:46 or 1:19:47 -- so, I suppose one could do number of cd's X 1:19:46 and have only a little overlap -- and don't forget to convert the 60's to 1's rather than a simple multiplication.
I did successfully burn the second half of Master and Commander in iTunes and it appears to do one thing that Audible Manger does not, and that is to optimize CD use -- that is, at the end of part 1, it continues into part 2 of a book on the same CD. AM stops at the end of Part 1 regardless, and a new cd is required for part 2. It is conceivable that combining would eliminate one cd.
Brief description of burning using Audible Manager (PC only)
So, for now, until and unless someone tells us how to better burn in iTunes (including how to identify and mark location and progress of burning), my recommendation to PC users is to use Audible Manager to burn CD's. I gather that Mac users are limited to iTunes for burning.
That said, burning in AM is relatively easy. Down load Audible Manager (for PC) from Audible.com. In AM, go to tools/Add Audio Files/and in Import Audio Files Window: Under Files of Type select Audible Audio Files (*.aa), browse to your iTunes audible content folder (see edit/preferences/Advanced tab/ to see location under iTunes Music Folder Location) and author (not in alpha sequence) of book you wish to burn/click import.
Before importing, it is best to select the same folder for Audible Content for both iTunes and AM. For folder location in AM, click Tools/Options/Audio Files/Click Change to same as iTunes folder.
To optimize burn speed, be sure, in AM, to go to Tools/CD Burner Properties/Recording Options to select the speed appropriate to your burner speed -- mine is 48X. I have had AM tell me that I need to reduce the speed, but I have successfully ignored that.
Open AM and click Devices/Choose Mobile Device/In window select CD Burner. Then drag and drop from Audible File into the cd burn and AM will lead you thru. AM marks each cd with beginning and end time and allows you to select times within a book for burning to a cd. However, for straightforward burning, just drag, drop, click on burn and follow the instructions.
AM offers printing labels which I find to be tedious. You can type in whatever you want in the window, including CD X of Y, which AM does not provide. I find it easier to go back to do labels all at one time, printing out a template, sticking CompUSA labels from their label REFILL kit to the template and printing.
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I had posted most of the AM instructions in a post that died in the Valentine's Day crash and loss of iPod lounge posts from beginning of year to then.
Let me know if this set of instructions helps and if there are gaps, After you have tried it out. Any help in describing how iTunes burning works vs AM and to judge which is superior would be appreciated.
Each of us has done an entire ipodlounge forum search on Burning CD's, to no avail. It does irritate me that the search is limited to words over three letters, so that CD's disqualifies the search.
Complete Beginner?s Guide: Burning audible books to CD with iTunes or Audible Manager
Edit 7-1-04. As promised, finally got around to posting Complete Beginner?s Guide: Burning audible books to CD with iTunes or Audible Manager Step-by-Step for both iTunes and Audible Manager.
Suggest you visit above link for a more coherent and simplified solution than my ramblings below.
Edit 5-5-04. Some Solutions Links
A PC user can burn with either iTunes or Audible Manager. A mac user can burn only with iTunes.
Below describes how to burn a portion of an audiobook in iTunes (PC or Mac). This is necessary to recover from a bad burn or interruption when you have to start over. That is:
In the quote below lies the solution for iTunes (PC Or Mac) burning partials to recover, waste of blanks, and some of the problems discussed. That is, with book to be burned highlighted, click File/get info/select options tab/enter start time and stop time. or, right click/get info... etc.
Finally found these on Audible site (their search feature leaves a bit to be desired):
CD Burning with iTunes and your Mac
General CD Burning Questions for Windows
Apple site tutorial --Burning your music to a CD
This applies to PC as well. I recommend that you click on the movie button because that shows the screens.
Next time I burn a cd, I will try to document and post a beginner's guide to burning cd's using iTunes and another post for AM.Next time I burn a cd, I will try to document and post a beginner's guide to burning cd's using iTunes and another post for AM.From CD Burning with iTunes and your Mac (Applies to PC as well) Link above:
For audio programs that are longer than 60 minutes, you may choose the portion of your audio program to burn to CD by entering the Start Time and Stop Time. Choose menu option
File -> Get Info, then select the ?Options? tab.
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This feature is critical when burning CDs for audio programs that will not fit on a single CD-R. For example, a 6 hour audiobook will take 6 CDs to burn the entire program ? the first CD holding minutes 0 to 60, the second CD starting at 60 and stopping at 120 minutes, and so on.
You will need to set the Start Time and Stop Time for each CD you burn of this program to create a complete set of 6 CDs spanning the entire program. [Edit insert: This is no longer necessary with iTunes 4.5. ] For further assistance please visit http://www.apple.com/support/itunes.
Can I use my own CD burner software to burn Audible Content?
If you have Windows, you have to use Audible Manager in order to burn Audible Content [this is no longer true with iTunes 4.5]. You can install Audible Manager from http://www.audible.com/software. For more information on how to start burning with Audible Manager
click here
End of Edit.
___________________________________________
What is the best way to burn an aubible book to cd?
A couple of us have been exchanging pm's on how best to burn CD's from audible audio books on both Mac and PC and need help.
I had been using Audible Manager to burn audio CD's for quite some time. With the advent of Audible Download Manager and iTunes 4.5, last evening I burned my first audiobook cd with iTunes. It was not a great experience. It appears if you leave iTunes to itself that it terminates the process with no marker for where or how to take up where iTunes quit. In addition, I had three failures to burn which interrupted the entire process. I have not found a way to satisfactorily recover from these failures other than to manually calculate time for the progress and gaps and then go to Audible Manager to specifically burn the rest of the audio book or the gap. I wasted six cd blanks in what was ultimately a 13 cd burn.
Will iTunes provide progress and interrupt capabilities? When I left my computer doing a burn, it terminated after the last cd I inserted. Is there a way to avoid this? Is there a way to recover from, say, the last cd not burning, and instructing iTunes to begin at the last successful burn? Is there a way to determine where that point is other than adding all the times on all the cd's burned so far. Seems like each cd is either 1:19:46 or 1:19:47 -- so, I suppose one could do number of cd's X 1:19:46 and have only a little overlap -- and don't forget to convert the 60's to 1's rather than a simple multiplication.
I did successfully burn the second half of Master and Commander in iTunes and it appears to do one thing that Audible Manger does not, and that is to optimize CD use -- that is, at the end of part 1, it continues into part 2 of a book on the same CD. AM stops at the end of Part 1 regardless, and a new cd is required for part 2. It is conceivable that combining would eliminate one cd.
Brief description of burning using Audible Manager (PC only)
So, for now, until and unless someone tells us how to better burn in iTunes (including how to identify and mark location and progress of burning), my recommendation to PC users is to use Audible Manager to burn CD's. I gather that Mac users are limited to iTunes for burning.
That said, burning in AM is relatively easy. Down load Audible Manager (for PC) from Audible.com. In AM, go to tools/Add Audio Files/and in Import Audio Files Window: Under Files of Type select Audible Audio Files (*.aa), browse to your iTunes audible content folder (see edit/preferences/Advanced tab/ to see location under iTunes Music Folder Location) and author (not in alpha sequence) of book you wish to burn/click import.
Before importing, it is best to select the same folder for Audible Content for both iTunes and AM. For folder location in AM, click Tools/Options/Audio Files/Click Change to same as iTunes folder.
To optimize burn speed, be sure, in AM, to go to Tools/CD Burner Properties/Recording Options to select the speed appropriate to your burner speed -- mine is 48X. I have had AM tell me that I need to reduce the speed, but I have successfully ignored that.
Open AM and click Devices/Choose Mobile Device/In window select CD Burner. Then drag and drop from Audible File into the cd burn and AM will lead you thru. AM marks each cd with beginning and end time and allows you to select times within a book for burning to a cd. However, for straightforward burning, just drag, drop, click on burn and follow the instructions.
AM offers printing labels which I find to be tedious. You can type in whatever you want in the window, including CD X of Y, which AM does not provide. I find it easier to go back to do labels all at one time, printing out a template, sticking CompUSA labels from their label REFILL kit to the template and printing.
_______________________________________________
I had posted most of the AM instructions in a post that died in the Valentine's Day crash and loss of iPod lounge posts from beginning of year to then.
Let me know if this set of instructions helps and if there are gaps, After you have tried it out. Any help in describing how iTunes burning works vs AM and to judge which is superior would be appreciated.
Each of us has done an entire ipodlounge forum search on Burning CD's, to no avail. It does irritate me that the search is limited to words over three letters, so that CD's disqualifies the search.
Complete Beginner?s Guide: Burning audible books to CD with iTunes or Audible Manager
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