iPod Converting files to audiobook format

[Mustafa]

To convert AAC files to audiobook format, is it simply a case of changing the file extension by overtyping m4a to m4b?

Or is it more complicated than that? If so, is there a script available, or better still an Automator flow?

 

[IscariotJ]

It's a simple as that. Check this - http://www.malcolmadams.com/itunes/scripts/ss.php?sp=makebookmarkable

 

[Mustafa]

It's a mystery...

Thanks -- I was aware of that script, but hadn't tried it. I've now downloaded it and it seems to work OK.

What I don't understand is that iPodder X downloads sound files into iTunes, and at the user's option can convert them to AAC and make them bookmarkable. And yet when I look at the files in my iTunes Library, they are still m4a's, rather than the m4b's I expected them to be. Any ideas why this is so? The bookmarking feature seems to work OK.

 

[IscariotJ]

That is curious. AFAIK, the files have to be m4b, though I may be wrong. I may have a go with iPodderX, and see