If you are an audiobook fan like I am, then you probably often wondered how to create nice audiobooks with chapters and all. I am such a guy and have been using Audiobook Maker for a while since its open source and free. However, it has a few shortcomings that made me want some modifications. Unfortunately, it seems that the author has stopped maintaining the app and thus I went to work and made the changes I needed.
Changelog
- added warning when file > 350MB or > 14h since usually then ChapterTool bombs out
- added support to process m4a and mp4 files (however, no bitrate transcoding yet)
- fixed issues with files containing special characters like spaces, quotes, …
I will ask the developer to integrate the changes, if not, I will post the sources here.
A big thanks to the guys at
http://www.tkn.tu-berlin.de/research/evalvid/
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which tools I have used in order to process mp4 files.
F.Y.I. , the link above for audiobook maker beta0.2.app.zip – in the About window, it still shows b.1 and it will not make audio books.
I didn’t update any app texts. That’s probably why. Can you be a bit more specific what does not work? Maybe attach a console log?
I had been using audiobook maker for a while. but lately, it stopped working. It just stop at the converting of files to AAC and nothing happened after that. I really hope someone can fix it…
well it looks as though this project is abandoned. My changes were never integrated and have not really heard back from the maintainer. My problem is that some of the tools used dont run under snow leopard without installing Rosetta (which I refuse to do). Therefore, I dont use it either anymore.
Hi,
I am the new developer of Audiobook Maker.
Can you please get in contact with me, using the E-mail address on http://audiobookmaker.sf.net/ .
Your research has been noted.
Regards,
Alex,