Splasm Software Discussions

I just bought Audiobook Builder, but my first attempts at creating chapters in a long file failed miserably.

I imported a 10:45 hour m4b file from iTunes, and couldn't hit the "split" button (opacity was down and it was not clickable).
I converted the file to mp3, imported that, but couldn't split that either.

Was I wrong in assuming I could insert chapter markers into long files??
I thought I could split long files into several parts, and that Audiobook Builder would insert a chapter marker at the split point...

I have the same question over here:
http://www.splasm.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=364
How can we create chapter marks?
Is it possible to insert bookmarks while playing a file on the ipod?
I think Rio players have this capability.

I e-mailed support and got an answer back, summarized:

At the moment that's not possible. In the future it may be
(You need to import several files, and the chapter markers will be created at the point "between" two files)

They suggested some great alternative though.

For Mac : ChapterToolME - interface for the hellishly complicated ChapterTool thing.

And for Windows I came up with Audiobook Cutter - which is free at sourcefourge and it can split large mp3 files into smaller chunks.

Pretty sure there are other mp3 splitter/cutter programs that can do the same.

When you insert those small chunks into Audiobook Builder out rolls a nice-n-chaperized long file

Oh, and for the ipod part of your question - you need to check "remember position" or something (mine's Dutch) in iTunes and your iPod will remember where you were when you stopped/paused the book or shut down the iPod.