u/Phinnegan

I use my ZuneHD every day to listen to audio books - no other device has a better user experience for this, imo.

The problem is Zune doesn't support audio books natively.

The solution has been posted about here before - by me and others: You use the Podcast app, and you mark your audio book mp3 files as Genre=Podcast... and your books show up in the Podcast list.

I've been doing this for over a decade, and finally decided to automate some of the workflow. When I get my audio books from the places I get them, they usually come as dozens of .mp3 files, or a single M4B file - and in all cases I need to a utility to modify the files for my zune. I was using an exe called mergeMP3.exe to merge files, and using VLC to convert M4B to .mp3. In both cases - when I was done I had to manually modify the properties of the output to set the Genre=Podcast, set the Album=TitleOfTheBook, and set the Titles of each file to a short name that would show up in the Zune UI.

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Now I created my own utility to do all that in one -

ZunioBooks will import a list of .mp3 files and merge them into a single file (or groups of files), and automatically output the mp3s with the Genre, Album, and Title set in a format that will be recognized as a Podcast by your Zune Software.

AND/OR it will convert M4B files to mp3, and set the same properties so your Zune software picks it up as a podcast.

Just output to the Podcast directory that your Zune software is already monitoring.

I've never made a public GITHUB repo before - you are free to use this, or even edit/contribute to it if you want. Fork it, copy it, do whatever.

It requires FFMPEG to be installed and configured in the Path.

Any feedback is welcome.

https://github.com/drwother/ZunioBooks