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Q: Repeating media iBooks Author

I have a title that will require reusing the same media hundreds of times.

 

Let's assume it's an audio file at 8.0mb.

 

It seems currently that every appearance of this audio file will increase my ibook by 8.0mb. It is possible to have a resource folder that can call out this file rather than adding unnecessary file size?

 

Embedding the audio file into page 1,5,7,21,27,33…Will result in the same file being used 6 times. 8X6=48

 

Vs.

 

Calling out the audio file: Pages 1,5,7,21,27,33 point to an audio folder 8x1=8

 

Is this possible? Any feedback would be great!

iBook, iOS 5.1.1

Posted on Jun 12, 2012 8:19 AM

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  • by MichiHenning,

    MichiHenning MichiHenning Jun 12, 2012 1:42 PM in response to ntanner
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    Jun 12, 2012 1:42 PM in response to ntanner

    There is no way to do this with IBA directly. You could experiment by renaming a copy of your IBA file as .zip, unpacking it, and checking the assets. Delete all copies but one of the audio file. Then edit the XML for the book to point all occurences of the audio file at the same instance.

     

    I haven't tried this myself yet and, obviously, that's a totally unsanctioned way of editing a book. iTunes Producer or some consistency checking tool in the back-end may barf at this. But it should work.

     

    Michi.