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Originally Posted by Ivanhoe  I saw an audio file that was listed "m4b." Will that play on an Itunes Ipod? |
Yes. It's an audio book. M4A is an audio format like MP3. It encodes using a different encoder than the MP3 encoder.
The nice thing about an M4B is that iPod treats it like a book and remembers where you stopped so if you go to listen to something else and come back to the book then it will pick up where you left off.
To get the m4b file(s) into your iPod just drag them over to your iTunes.
In fact, Fred turned me on to a way to convert MP3's to M4B's using dBPowerAmp.
Whenever I download lectures from RTS iTunes I go through the following steps:
1. Convert the files en masse from MP3 to M4A.
2. Use MP3Tag to set the Tag information for the files (give them all the same album name and autonumber them from 1 through X so that it will proceed from the end of each lecture to the next).
3. Once all the M4A files have the right id information I just change the extension to M4B since the only difference between an M4A and an M4B is the extension.
4. Drag the files into iTunes.
Voila! When I sync my iPod I know have an album in my iTunes of an RTS lecture series that is in the Audio Book format.