Comments on: Survey: Do You Burn Audiobook MP3 Files to CD?

By: Carlos

Carlos — Fri, 18 Sep 2009 00:00:02 +0000

Why not have both formats downloadable? Personally, I never burn to CD. In fact, I go the otherway around, I rip my CDs to Digital and then archive them on my hard drive (no, I don’t share them on P2P networks). The multiple files really made it a serious pain to download and compile on my player.

By: Tom Thelen

Tom Thelen — Sat, 21 Feb 2009 20:34:16 +0000

I keep them digital and load them on an MP3 player for myself. I do back them up on a DVD once I have a complete series (i.e. I will put all Stephen R. Donaldson books on one DVD). My Son listens to them off the DVD on his computer.

By: eoghan

eoghan — Tue, 04 Nov 2008 19:18:01 +0000

burn

By: Steve

Steve — Wed, 24 Sep 2008 22:12:39 +0000

You appear to have made the #16 file too big for even an 80 minute CD. Got all the others. Any help?

By: Peter Hunt

Peter Hunt — Thu, 28 Aug 2008 19:19:44 +0000

Please keep the mp3 files at 74 minutes or shorter. It gives us the flexibility to burn the files to CD if we want to, and on mp3 players, it makes it easier to find our place than a single monolithic file would.

Even if the files were shorter, that would be fine, as we could burn them as individual tracks to CD. But please no large mp3 files.

Thanks for taking the effort to make the audio version of this wonderful book available.

By: Erin

Erin — Thu, 28 Aug 2008 18:18:02 +0000

I download to my iPod and back them up on DVD, so it really doesn’t matter to me.

By: Thomas Berdinski

Thomas Berdinski — Thu, 28 Aug 2008 16:20:23 +0000

Yes I do put them onto CD, but you know what? I’d put Covenant mp3s on VINYL if that’s what it took! I am soooo THRILLED to have more Thomas Covenant on Audio!

Thank you Scott Brick!!!

By: Mark

Mark — Wed, 20 Aug 2008 22:59:23 +0000

If you are going to break up the file, I would prefer you break up the book by chapters, not by disc. I use a great shareware program called JoinTogether that lets me join audio files together into a single book, plus it puts chapter breaks in. It’s really useful for iPod listeners.

As it is, I suppose it’s easy enough to join them with breaks at the disc.

By: Brian

Brian — Wed, 13 Aug 2008 16:11:42 +0000

I listen to audiobooks in my car, which has a cd-MP3 player. I leave them in MP3 form, of course, so they fit on less disks. The only thing I would like is 74-minute groups (for the audio burners), with a number of files in the group. If I listen to another CD then go back to an audiobook one (most often because my wife uses that car), I have to remember and find my place, and if for some reason it’s 35 minutes into a file it’s a pain to get back to. Minor whine, though – generally not a problem.
Have definitely had older CD-MP3 players freak out if a file is too long, though, so 74 min max is good.

By: Angella

Angella — Mon, 04 Aug 2008 05:02:37 +0000

Oops, I meant to say “much shorter than it would take to listen to them on CD.” My Sansa goes everywhere with me.