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]

Wow! I am both impressed and happy.
Not only does it process my files with special characters correctly, but you handled the chapter request very nicely. I am impressed with all the options of the command-line version. I also tried it on a file of size 15MB, and it worked there as well. I do have a couple findings....

1) I used it on several files, all with special characters. I didn't see any error messages or crashes, or any real problems at all.

2) I notice that sometimes both the Chinese characters and the Pinyin come out, and sometimes only the Pinyin. Is that due to the construction of the original m4b or something about the way m4b.py is reading it? Is there anything that can be done to get the Chinese characters all the time?

3) The question mark ("?") is not allowed as characters in file names, and the period "." is the delimiter between the base filename and the extension. I notice that "?"'s are removed, and sentences have the "." However, the characters used in Chinese writing are allowed as file names "？" and "。". This is not too important, but as a low-priority request - is there any chance to make use these characters when they appear in the chapter name rather than removing the "?" and having double "normal periods" in some file names? This might best be an option, as these characters may appear unusual to some users.

4) I notice that the special characters are not displayed properly by the "dir" command in Windows DOS command window, although they are displayed correctly in Windows Explorer. A note to other users: If anyone wants a text file with the filenames (which I use for importing these files into another program), one can browse the directory using Firefox, the copy-paste the file name list to a text file, remove the extra fields (size/timestamp/etc) to get just a list of files.

Thanks again for your great work.