I have started listening to audio book while I drive. My truck will only recognize CDs. So I have to make sure they will all fit on 1 CD. But I have a Few of the books are 3 files and 1 gigabyte. I am testing various software trying to find one, but I am not getting what I want, so I decided to ask for a bit of help. I wonder if there is software that will merge files in to one large file. Then I can run some sort of compression to get it down to 700megs, and then split the file in to about 10 minute chunks to make easier to navigate. I know I will lose quality to compress it 700 Megs but I am ok with that. Any suggestions? I would prefer and all in one package and I am not opposed to buying something if it works. But I am looking for ease of use due to I am new to audio editing. Thanks,
I also listen to audio books. Why go through the bother of combining them into one then splitting them up again? Most chapters are in about that size any way. Is your truck CD player an mp3 player? If not you will not be able to get much over 70 min on a CD. Audio CDs are lossless. The best converter on the market is dbPoweramp. You can use the 30 day free trial the converter will still work but the subscription databases will not be opened for you. It can use freeDB but the subscription databases are very complete. I suspect they have every copyrighted CD. I kept the subscription up for a few years but I don't rip enough to warrant the 25 USDs/yr. Being top of the line, it has a huge array of encoders you can use. If you use lame which is a high fidelity ripper I can't go below 40 BR before artifacts become obvious. You should be able to get conversation down to 16 or maybe 8 before you cut into vocal quality. The on-line library 16 only 16 BR. They sound just fine.
My truck has a CD player that will play mp3. Most Audio books I get are about 700 megs of Mp3 files so they fit on 1 CD. The current book I want to list is in 3 files, 2 350 meg files and one 800 Meg file. so the last file will not fit on CD. I am like you and I like them broken into a chapter per file but I can't always find them that way. I will check out dbpoweramp
Got it. You are normal. You could use cue splitter from medieval. You would just make up a cue file with 10 min breaks. That is free and works well. You will like the converter. After it is installed, you right click from file explorer. That will continue to work after the 30 days.
