M4B to MP3 (chapter separation), Converting M4B to multiple MP3s taking into account the M4B chapters Options

[jaime11]

Hello
I have been searching on the forum but haven't found anything. Basicly what I'm looking for is a program that will input a M4B file and output several MP3 files (1 MP3 per chapter in the M4B file).
I have been using Free M4B to MP3 Converter, but unfortunately, all it does is extract a single MP3 from the M4B.

Anyone knows any other programs for this job?

Thank you

[HydrogenNoobie]

Valekhz,

2. Ahh. I suspected that might be the case. I'm still happy that the majority of the chapters can be parsed.

3. I can understand the the question mark thing is too much of a special case. And yes - I was able to get my special case to work, thanks to the guidance you provided.

Finally, if you don't mind - one last question: Several of these files created by the m4B.py have the word / sentence that I want to hear, then 3-4 seconds of silence, then the same word / sentence again. (same as original m4b chapter) I actually only want the mp3 to contain the word / phrase once. Might you be able to make another .py file that takes an mp3 file in, measures the duration of the file, and simply saves only the 1st half under the same name (deleting 2nd half)? (FYI - I will then run this on all files in a given directory, and then clean up silences and the like with Audacity "Apply Chains" - but audacity doesn't seem to have batch splitting)

Sorry to ask you for something else after all you have done, but you seem to have the skills to do this 1000 times easier than I ever could.

Thank you

[valekhz]

Valekhz,

2. Ahh. I suspected that might be the case. I'm still happy that the majority of the chapters can be parsed.

3. I can understand the the question mark thing is too much of a special case. And yes - I was able to get my special case to work, thanks to the guidance you provided.

Finally, if you don't mind - one last question: Several of these files created by the m4B.py have the word / sentence that I want to hear, then 3-4 seconds of silence, then the same word / sentence again. (same as original m4b chapter) I actually only want the mp3 to contain the word / phrase once. Might you be able to make another .py file that takes an mp3 file in, measures the duration of the file, and simply saves only the 1st half under the same name (deleting 2nd half)? (FYI - I will then run this on all files in a given directory, and then clean up silences and the like with Audacity "Apply Chains" - but audacity doesn't seem to have batch splitting)

Sorry to ask you for something else after all you have done, but you seem to have the skills to do this 1000 times easier than I ever could.

Thank you

No problem. I made an addition to line 19: m4b_half.py. This will save the first half of each chapter so if you don't want to cut all chapters you should run the old version first and save the ones that shouldn't be cut then run this one.