RIP audiobook from CD as one file?

Hi Nathan,

No I haven't had any troubles with my ipod mini and shuffle. I listen to audiobooks and lectures well over 45 minutes everyday.

This guide is from iPodlounge I printed out many years ago, but should work fine as I still use it. This should also create a 'bookmarking' so you can pause the track just like at audiable.com

1. Rip Audio CD's into single AAC file for each CD.

1. Open iTunes, Click on the top menu Edit > Preferences and click on the "Importing" Tab:

”Import Using”: select “AAC Encoder”

• uncheck Create Filenames with track number
• uncheck “Use error correction when reading Audio CD”s.”
• In "Settings" box, choose "Custom" from dropdown
• In Customs Widow that opens
• Select Stereo setting: 32 kbps for audible.com format 4 quality; 16kbps for format 3 quality.
• Click OK
• 
  2. Open iTunes, & insert CD. CD will appear shortly, highlighted, in
  iTunes Source column If CD doesn”t appear, click on Audio CD to display the CD tracks column. If a window appears, either ignore or click “use iTunes to import”
  3. Highlight all the tracks of the CD (Click on first track, then hold shift
  while clicking on the last track).
  4. Right click highlighted tracks, click yes to both “change all” & “don”t tell me again,” Right Click > select “Get Info.” In resulting window validate or type in:
  
• ”Artist” = (Author)
• ”Album” = Book Name
• ”Genre” = “Books & Spoken,” “Spoken Word,” ”Audiobook,” or created genre.
• uncheck “part of compilation”
• 
  5. With all tracks still highlighted, click on “Advanced” > Join Tracks. Results in single bracket around all the tracks & checked square to left
  first track. If “Join Tracks” is grayed out:
  1. All tracks MUST be selected/highlighted (see 3 above); and/or
  2. Click on untitled, left - most column until re-ordered into 1, 2, 3, etc., sequence - even if tracks are already in sequence and;
  3. CD is highlighted in Source Col.
  6. Click on “Import” button
  iTunes will create, without your naming or numbering, a uniquely identified file for each CD into the same iTunes “Book Name” folder. That is, iTunes\iTunes Music\Author Name\Book Name[folder], with files in Book Name folder = Book Name.m4a, BookName1.m4a, BookName2.m4a, etc.
  Repeat steps 2-6 for each CD of the audio book, making certain that Artist, Album, & Book Name inserted in step 4 are IDENTICAL for each of CD.
  2. Make AAC Files Bookmarkeable.
  1. Highlight and right click on any of the new files in iTunes Library
  
• Select “Show Song File” in the dropdown window. All of the imported (ripped) *.m4a files will appear in a window of the autho\bookname folder, distinguished by a sequential number.
• 
  2. Highlight each files in sequence and rename file.
  3. Change each file extension from *.m4a to *.m4b by deleting the “a” and keying in the “b.” Do not, at this time, change the song name to designate the sequence number.
  4. Remove the song names from iTunes that no longer have a file
  associated with it (the m4a files that no longer exist to iTunes):
  
• In iTunes, Highlight all the Book Name Files and Right Click > Clear
• When clicked, may display an ! to its left, indicating that it no longer has a file associated with it.
• 
  5. Add the newly-named files to iTunes:
  
• In iTunes, click on Edit/Add File. Browse in “Add to Library” window to iTunes\iTunes Music\Author Name[not alpha unless you R click/sort]\Book Name Folder where you will have all the new .m4b files in the “Add to Library” Window.
• 
  6. Right click on each file in iTunes, choose “Get Info”
  
• Click on Summary Tab, and in the “Where” line of the window, note
  the number (none, 1, 2, 3, etc) associated with the file name
• “Click on the “Info” tab of the window and insert the file number (X or 0X) you noted above into the “Name” box.
• That is Book Name X UA, or X Book Name. You can choose to leave the first file blank, and name the second file “Book Name 1,” OR, number files from 1 to end.
• If of a series, you may want to use “Book Name 1/5”, “Book Name 2/5”, etc.
• Click OK and repeat for each file. > 9 CD”s = 0X
• 
  That should work.
  Cheers

You can choose also Spoken Podcast under Importing