Creating Audio Book in M4B Format

AVS Audio Converter gives you one more opportunity to convert your voice recordings into a digital audio book format.

You can save your audio books to MP3 or M4B formats.

M4B is an audio book format with Bookmark support for iPods. Converting your audio to M4B format you will receive one large audio file compressed with AAC codec. The Bookmark feature allows you to create some chapters in your audio book and navigate through them during the audio playback.

Please follow the steps below to create an audio book in the M4B format:

• Switch to the Audio Book Tab.
• Load the audio files into AVS Audio Converter. Use the Add File, Grab from CD or Import from Video option to do that.
• Set the necessary file order within the Input Audio Area. Click the file whose place you need to change with the left mouse button and move it up or down using the corresponding button below the file list.
• Press the M4B button to set the format to which you would like to save your audio book.
• Select one of the available M4B Profiles clicking the arrow below the format button.
• Split your audio into chapters using one of the available options:
  • No Chapters - if you check this option no chapters will be created.
  • Create chapters at the beginning of files - use this option to create a new chapter at the beginning of each new audio track loaded into the program. In case only one file is loaded the only chapter will be created at its beginning.
  • Create ... chapters - use this option to specify the number of chapters you want to create. The loaded audio track will be divided into equal parts.
  • Create a new chapter every ... - use this option to create a new chapter at the selected time interval measured in hours:minutes:seconds.

  When you choose one of the two latter options the Pause detection option becomes available. Check this box if you want the program to split the audio track into the parts you indicated based on silence detection.

• Insert the Title, Author and Artist for your audio book into the corresponding fields of the Edit Area.
• Edit your audio tracks before creating. Switch to the Editor Tab and follow the instructions here.
• Load the picture to use it as a cover for your audio book. Right-click within the Image Area and choose the Change Cover option. In the opened Windows Explorer window find the file you need and click the Open button. The selected file will be loaded and displayed in the Image Area.
• Set the location for the resulting audio book. Press the Browse button located in the Output Audio Area and select the desired location on your HDD.
• Press the Create Audio Book button to start the audio book creation process.