How to listen to audio books sequential order?
 

How to listen to audio books sequential order? My dad gave his iphone 3g. I am playing around with iphone now to listen to audio books sequentially. Not sure as of now. I am also thinking of getting nokia n900.

My question is how would you listen to audio books sequentially and book mark them as favorites and maybe export the favorites?

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I honestly am not sure what you're asking here..

If by sequentially you mean, chapter 1 followed by chapter 2, 3, 4 etc. then you just have to make sure the id3 tags are using the "track" tag and that they are in the correct order.

Re: How to listen to audio books sequential order?
 

Have you checked out Panucci podcast and audiobook player?
http://panucci.garage.maemo.org/

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First create a separate folder for them and give it a name like "Audiobooks." Then just rename the tracks in sequential order, and they'll play in sequential order. ie. chapter 1 becomes 01, chapter 2 becomes 02 etc... If you have more than 99 tracks be sure to rename them 001, 002 etc...

As for bookmarking, that is a player specific function. As far as I know Apple chooses to give its customers the finger instead of bookmarking. In fact I don't even think the iPhone has a fast forward button. One way around this is to use a program like Audacity to chop long chapters into short segments and export them to mp3. You just look for 1-2 second long silence, and clip it right there. I find 10 minute segments ideal if I'm cutting up a track that's several hours long, but anything from 4-20 minutes would be okay. I don't even bother if it's less than 3 hours, because my player has auto-resume.

I don't think you want to mark them as favorites, because then they'll be played more frequently in your rotation, But you may want to make a playlist with them instead of managing folders. Some people like it that way. Either way, I'd rename the tracks to be all numeric.

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Hey, did that help?

Re: How to listen to audio books sequential order?
 

It's amazing how often a discussion continues after the original questioner has gone away. This one seemed to be REALLY asking a question about his iPhone...

Re: How to listen to audio books sequential order?
 

Sometimes, in my rush to be helpful, I give a long detailed answer to a question that no one asked. I was worried that I may have done that here. :o

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Pokey thanks. It helped. I have another question about listening to audio books. I want to know if you can speed up the audio/video to 3x or something to get through materials faster. That way you can save time. Anyone knows how you can do this in MPlayer or other players supported with Mameo?

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There is a right way, and many wrong ways for doing this. There is a command line application for doing this the right way, which retains pitch characteristics, but I can't remember what it is. As for the wrong way; you can usually do it with your player, but the pitch goes way up. This makes it pretty much un-listenable, because everybody sounds like a chipmunk.

One trick I've done in the past is to load the file into audacity and pass it through a filter that removes silence. It's not as dramatic a difference as you're looking for though, and it's time consuming to do. Overall you probably loose time that way. To give you an idea of the results, I once ran a TLLTS podcast through the filter with pretty agressive settings, and it shortened a 140 minute podcast by about 12 minutes. That's an extreme example though as those guys have a lot of audio lag in their various telephony connections, which causes a lot of artificial dead air.

Re: How to listen to audio books sequential order?
 

have the same problem on my n900. all files in same folder, several CDs.

chapter 1 Disc 1
chapter 1 Disc 2
grrr...