Jr Learns Media

# re: Enhanced Podcasting on Windows

Thanks for this....I'm wondering if it might be possible to use this to insert chapters into an audiobook a al Audiobook Builder on a mac.

Any thoughts on this.....

# re: Enhanced Podcasting on Windows

I figured out how to use your software for audiobooks. :)

Using this tool and editing the pod file, I was able to add the chapter marks and have it change the art to match the chapter changes. Awesomeness..... I'm stoked to run this on some of my other audiobooks....

Couple of things that I've discovered using this for audiobooks:
1. the href tags in the edit points are not needed to create chapters, it's useful for the podcasts to have itunes show a URL to click on, but doesn't really apply to audiobooks.

2. the catg metadata field is set to podcast in the example as is the genre tag (notated as ©gen in the example file) Edit the catg field to "music" to keep the song/file from showing as a podcast when you import it into iTunes. You can also edit the ©gen tag to "Audiobooks" to make it easier to import the file into the audiobooks section of your library.

3. The pcst, purl and egid fields are not necessary for audiobooks so I commented them out when I ran this against my test file.

Thanks!

# Ed: Audiobooks

Ed,

How are you determining the chapter locations, do the audio books come with a list of times?

# re: Enhanced Podcasting on Windows

Joe,

They don't have a list of times, but the book that I was specifically interested in is broken up in to 1 m4a file per chapter.

I just use the time lengths for each chapter for chapter breaks when I combine them into 1 file.

ie - chapter 1 is 20 minutes, chapter 2 is 18 minutes, chapter 3 is 16 minutes. Chapter marks would be at 20:01, 38:02, 54:03, etc.

# re: Enhanced Podcasting on Windows

when i try to run it i just get an error thet says application configuration incorrent

# re: Enhanced Podcasting on Windows

Make sure that you have quicktime 7.1 and iTunes 7.1 installed. I got this when I was running iTunes 7.0.1 on my laptop. Once I upgraded it worked.

# re: Enhanced Podcasting on Windows

Same problem as Ali,
running XP w/sp2, both iTunes v 7.2.035 and QT v. 7.2 are installed
I've downloaded and installed SSA several times with the same result:
dragging the example.pod onto the exe yeilds the following:
-This application has failed to start because the application configuration is incorrect-

DANG IT!

Anyway, I applaud your efforts to bring podcasting to Windows, thanks!

# re: Enhanced Podcasting on Windows

Try downloading the latest version (1.0.2).

# re: Enhanced Podcasting on Windows

Same result again.

# re: Enhanced Podcasting on Windows

Ok. Download this file http://www.jrlearnsmedia.com/download/manifest.zip and unzip it into the SSA folder and try again. With any luck we'll get to the bottom of this.

# re: Enhanced Podcasting on Windows

Worked like a charm! Thanks for your persistence.

Is this version going to function just like the others? (i.e. will the pdf instructions still apply?)

Thanks again

# re: Enhanced Podcasting on Windows

thanks for this application, it works great! I was able to chapterize one of my audiobooks! =D
my only question, in my ipod the chapters show as black vertical markers against the blue timeline progress bar, and I can move through these markers back and forth using the clickwheel, the art changes according to the chapter's mark and time, but the chapter text doesnt change at all, though it DOES change in itunes.. am I doing something wrong?

# re: Enhanced Podcasting on Windows

John,

You will not see the chapter title on your ipod, let's hope there is a firmware update soon to change that.

# re: Enhanced Podcasting on Windows

hmmm damnit! I hope they actually fix it sometime... I wish I could try an audible audiobook bought from itunes store to see if it does display chapter names on ipod... anybody knows about this?

# re: Enhanced Podcasting on Windows

Audiobook files will NOT show the chapter text at all. The only files that will are podcasts. I ran the same file through SSA with 2 different pod files, 1 set as an audiobook, the other as a podcast and the chapter text shows on the podcast when playing, but not on the audiobook. This is due to the way that the ipod treats podcasts versus audiobooks.

# re: Enhanced Podcasting on Windows

Jr, just wanted to say thanks for a great job on this SW. I have been trying to break-up audio files I use for quizzes for months now and your little Util is the best I have found...again a BIG THANK YOU!!!!

# re: Enhanced Podcasting on Windows

Many thanks for creating this tool. I have a few mp3s which have full DJ sets and I sometime want to skip or skip to a song. In the past I have broken them up and stored them as an album but I found that I always messed up on the cutting. This will be a much simpler way of getting what I needed. It works great.

# Guide Up

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Today , you saved my life with your page......

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# re: Enhanced Podcasting on Windows

Great program!

# re: Enhanced Podcasting on Windows

I use for quizzes for months now and your little Util is the best I have found.