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FOAK: Audio Books
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Can anybody recommend a good site to download decent audiobooks. I'm looking
for something decent to listen to on my _new_ zen, whilst on holiday. I
really do not think the likes of Billy-boy Shake-a-legg will my type of
book, something along the lines of Clancy, Dale Brown, or Stephen Coontz
would be more to my liking.
Free downloading would be wonderful, but TBH I don't mind paying a sensible
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Any use?
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Yeah, had a look at that.
Don't know whether my taste is funny or what, but didn't find much that took
my fancy.
I'll have a longer, more enquiring gander on the morrow.
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amount.
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I've got the 56 Unabridged version of The Lord of the Rings (Read by
Rob Inglis) if you're having a really long holiday.
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Oooh, could that be made available? I'd love to listen to it. I have
the BBC radio adaptation but often thought it would be nice to listen to
the book.
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It's the full 46 CD version, many, many hours of listening. Cost me
£150 or suchlike but I've never got around to listening to it all,
preferring to read the books.
I did start to dump it on my hard drive once but couldn't decide on a
format for it. My original aim was to use a speech format so that all
46 CDs would squeeze on to a CDR but the quality would have been too
low.
Another option would be to compress it in a more chunky format (Like
MP3 or OGG) and stick it on a DVDR, but which format...
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It's audio, so for me I'd just MP3 it at 128k which if probably more
than enough. OGG ok, I mean anyone cares they can convert it.
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And then some. I did my Michel Thomas CDs at 64k and they're bob on.
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My preference is OGG but a wider audience may wish to have MP3. I
paid a considerable amount of money for this box set and naming
chapters and sections on a CD and other compressed audio format will
be quite a task as on the small selection of CDs I did a trial with I
noticed that CDDB had a number of errors.
Compiling them would be an issue too. Do I do one file per track, or
one file per CD or one file per chapter? Some chapters last longer
than a CD and the tracks aren't always split (IIRC) at the end of
chapters so the admin involved in creating a decent presentation will
be considerable. This just to give away something worth £150...
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Hookay, now I think its *very* important to remain in the original CD
format, that is by track. The reasons are two fold, if you do it by
chapter, finding where you left off after changing the batteries in 'X'
is a RRPITA, and you also need to keep and eye on where you are.
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So how much are you asking?
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I will look into ripping it shortly but I'm not sure what I'll do with
all the files afterwards as it's just too good to stick on an MP3
site.
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Let me know how it goes, the demunged e-mail is good.
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