Re: concatenate flac files? convert to mp4?

["Matt Price" <moptop99@gmail.com>]

On 7/15/07, Matt Price <moptop99@gmail.com> wrote:
> hi,
>
> im in hte middle of a long trip with my kids and have filled my ipod
> with all kinds of things, including over a thousand mp3's from
> ripped-down harry potter cd's.  unfortunately my ipod doesn't know
> that these files are 'audiobook' file, and so when i put the ipod on
> shuffle, about one in 5 tracks is a harry potter track.  this is
> annoying.  fortunately i also have all our music & audiobooks on a
> backup drive in flac format, and was thinking i could perhaps
> concatenate all the files from each harry potter book into one immense
> flac (or maybe 23 -- that's the number of cds' in 'order of the
> phoenix'!), then convert each of these megafiles into aac & rename
> them as m4b files -- which, if i understand correctly, is all i have
> to do to get the stupid ipod to know that they're 'audiobooks'.
>
> unfortunately i can't find the tool that would let me do this --
> surely it exists?  is the easiest thing to somehow directly
sorry, working on an unfamiliar computer, under windows, on dialup, in
an unfamiliar place.  i meant to say:  is the easiest thing to osmehow
directly manipulate the underlying flac files themselves?  i am not a
developer so direct manipulation of the bits is not something i
normally do...  anyay, appreciate all the help you can give!  thanks,

matt