Converting Audio Files to Audio Books for the iPod

2006-11-08 by Motoma, tagged as audio conversion ipod mp3 player usb

Back when I first bought my iPod, I needed a way to convert my Audiobook MP3s to M4Bs, the format iPods recognize as Audiobooks. I used ffmpeg (http://ffmpeg.org) to accomplish this task.

How To convert MP3 files to iPod Audiobook (M4B) files:

First, encode the audio using AAC:

Then, rename the file with an m4b extension:

Yes, it is just that simple.

Hope this helps,

Motoma