Audiobook Builder App for Mac #JIAM2016

Posted by on Jun 9, 2016 in Miscellaneous | 14 comments

June is Audiobook Month

As part of Audiobook month, I thought I would share with you some of my tips about audiobooks.

I get a ton of audiobook CDs or digital files from publishers for review. I like to have these files in an audiobook format so that I listen to them on my iPod. I found an app that works on my Mac (right now it appears to only work on Macs) that will take separate tracks and combine them into one audiobook. I use Audiobook Builder at the time of this post, it is only $4.95 for the app.

You start off by adding in the Title (I normally include the series and # to help keep things more organized for me), the Author, I always leave the genre as Audiobooks, but I guess you could do different book genres. I copy and past the cover of the image from Audible.

 

Audiobook Builder Cover Tab

 

Under the Chapters section, you drag and drop the tracks. Here you can either leave them as they are, or if you have multiple tracks per chapter, you can combine them. Just select the tracks and click “Join”. Once you have this done however you want, you ready to move the next tab.

 

Audiobook Builder Chapter Tab

 

On the Finish section, you can double check the length. The length could be a bit off if the publisher is one that puts intros and exits on each CD (I wish they wouldn’t do that or would at least put this on tracks by themselves so I could delete them when building an audiobook file). The length should be pretty close and if anything longer. You can also see the number of chapters. I don’t normally pay a lot of attention this.

 

Audiobook Builder Finish Tab

 

The big thing I pay attention to on this tab (besides double checking the length), is the number of parts. This will change based on the length. If the audiobook is less than 10 hours, I usually just have one part. If it is more, then I use multiple parts. You can adjust the amount by selecting “Build Options” that is shown under the Cover image. I try to get the parts as close to equal as I can. Once I get the Parts set the way I want, click “Build Audiobook” at the bottom. It will build the audiobook and automatically add it to iTunes into the Audiobook section.

 

Audiobook Builder Build Options

 

When you close the file, it will ask you if you want to save the file. It will save this so you can make changes if you need to. I don’t think I’ve ever had to reopen a project once I was done with it (except to write this post LOL). I do always save them. I will probably start deleting them when I need disk space.

Have you ever used this app? How do you listen to the files you get that are not already in an audiobook format?

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Melanie Simmons
I’m Melanie and I live in Ohio. I have two horses and a dog. I’m an animal lover, avid book reader and audiobook listener. I like to live vicariously through fictional characters. I enjoy reading and listening to mostly fictional books in the paranormal genre, including Urban Fantasy, Paranormal Romance and Horror. My favorite paranormal creatures are shifters, doesn’t matter the flavor.