If it is on 10 CDs then almost certainly the book is in original cdaCDA If it is no on 10 cds the book will not be in mp3 format and you will need to rip and encode the content off there first. 1. Make sure that you have your CDs in order. This might entail playing them initially for a few seconds. If you are lucky they will say disk 1 etc. If not you may need sighted help to make sure you have them in order.
2. Load your CDex program.2. Put your first CD in the drive. If you are extremely lucky if you go to the CDDB menu and select read from remote database you might find the book details inserted for you but this is not so likely with Audio books. 3. Assuming that you are not lucky then tab to the CDex fields and under Artist put the Book Author, under album Book name and disk number and if you want you can also put spoken as genre and the year. 4. Make sure that all tracks are selected by pressing control in the track list and then press F9 to start the process of ripping and encoding into mp3. 5. Repeat this for each disk but of course changing the disk number in the album field.
Depending on which version of CDex you have the results will be a folder in either the CDex directory version My Music or your main My Music folder wit a folder with the Book Author, which 10 folders of mp3 files from each disk within this.
You can either play these a disk at a time in your Book player or my preference is to use Bulk rename to place a prefix at the beginning of all the mp3 file in a folder. So all the disk 1 files start with 01, all the disk 2 files start with 02 and so on. This means that you can them copy all the files into a single book folder which you can transfer as one complete book and it will play in order.
Ask if you need help with bulk rename utility. David Griffith roger.south@xxxxxxxxxx wrote:
HelloI seem to be having a senior moment. A friend has given me a commercial audio book that is on 10 CD’s I want to copy these onto one SD card to listen to on my VRS. i have a variety of software, Goldwave-CDEx-Express Rip and Express burn to name some. Alternatively a copy and paste I would have thought a copy & paste would work but nothing I do does.Can someone help me get the brain into gear again please. Roger