Piniepower said:
I've tried splitting, but isn't there still a way to make it one big one? I mean, you can buy thr Harry Potter Audiobooks from iTunes and they are definatly longet than 5 hours.
I have used Markable as well.
The forums have speculated that the problem lies in iTunes AAC codec making the conversion from mp3 to AAC. Audible.com and iTunes are probablly not converted in the same way, so the problems appear only in long homemade files. However, there have been, however complaints that iTunes Harry Potter long files will not play properly. See FAQ link in signature below on how to split long mp3 files into smaller ones using iTunes. I think the FAQ is about the 11th FAQ.
I don't recall having an audible.com file longer than 12 hours. It played fine, but it is in audible.com's format, not AAC.
If you have the typical Harry Potter mp3 set, you should be merging, not splitting --- Just merge into 5 hour or so files, no larger.
You will not have at most four or five files. Not too many to deal with considering all the problems you are having trying to create one large file. Use Smart Playlist to keep all of one book in one logical and easy to manage place.
It has only been 18 months or so that the forum discussed converting CD's and MP3s to m4b bookmarking files, so I am just happy to be able to do it even if the files have to be five hours.