Splasm releases Audiobook Builder
Posted by Dennis Sellers 
Oct 27, 2006 at 11:23am
Splasm Software has released Audiobook Builder 1.0, a US$9.95 Mac only tool for moving audiobooks to an iPod. It’s a Universal Binary app, so runs natively on both PowerPC and Intel Macs.
Audiobook Builder, which require Mac OS X 10.4 or later, lets you import your Audiobook CDs (or tracks that are already on your Mac), organize them and output one or two files that your iPod recognizes as actual Audiobooks. The results are automatically sent to a special playlist in iTunes. When you sync with your iPod they appear in the Audiobooks section. 
Audiobook Builders offers audio file joining, adjustable quality settings and enhanced chapter stops. By default, every CD you import becomes its own “chapter” in your Audiobook project. When you play the final output in iTunes or on your iPod, you’ll notice special controls for moving between these chapters instead of fast-forwarding or rewinding. You can accessorize each chapter with its own artwork.
Each Audiobook Builder project is self-contained in its own document, so you’re free to start a project whenever you wish, move on to another application or do something else entirely, then come back and finish your project later. You can even move projects between Macs, if necessary.
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Dennis Sellers
Dennis has been a newspaper editor/reporter (seven years) and teacher (seven years). He has over 4,000 magazine, newspaper and online articles to his credit. He has also covered the Mac and tech industries for over a decade for such online publications as MacCentral, MacMinute and now MacsimumNews.
