Easy way to convert mp3 to m4b?

Moderately, sort of.

Be aware that if you convert the file from one lossy compressor (mp3) to another (AAC, which is what m4b uses), you may well lose some quality, although people's view of comfortable reading quality may vary. Also be aware that if you're converting audiobook ripped tracks from CD one by one it isn't worth doing, because there's no great point in having a bookmark in a 3 to 5 minute track.

Look up the software MarkAble, which costs $15 from www.ipodsoft.com and has a short trial period. This will "stick together" track-by-track mp3 audiobooks into longer files and convert them to m4b.

If you have any long mp3 files (saved in CD-length, chapter length or whatever) these can be converted easily in iTunes, or even used directly with bookmarks: iTunes 5.0 has a setting for 'remember playback position for this track'.

Let me second the recommendation for markable from ipodsoft. I've been using it since the first version, it works great and they support the product well. If you do any amount of converting cd audiobooks for your ipod, its a must have.

You can actually bookmark an mp3 file on the Ipod as long as you change the options section of the info on Itunes and set it to remember the position. You also need to do it on the Ipod itself because this bit of info won't cause an update for the song or file.

Hey,

I know that if you have an AAC file, you can just rename the file to .m4b, and it will work perfectly. Not so with MP3s though.

-Matt

I use a free program called mp3 merge, google it. One audiobook I have comes as 697 mp3 files, no point sticking all of them of the pod so use mp3merge and you can have just one long file.

I found my file that has the m4a extension, but how do I physically change it to an m4b?