Hey all...

I just created a few AAC files with chapters using foobar2000 0.9's new "convert to album images with cuesheets or chapters" function.

the resultant file shows up fine in foobar2000, with all the playlist entries intact.

however, when I import the file into itunes, it doesn't show up as a chaptered file.

Is there any way to convert the file that foobar2000 produces to have it show up properly in iTunes as well as foobar2000?

or am i just asking for too much?

I want to do this so i can have gaplessly encoded files for my iPod.

I don't have a mac available to me currently, so a Windows based solution is preferable...

also, i assume that foobar2000 and iTunes mean different things when they say "chapters" if iTunes does not recognize foobar2000's tags.

I have the same problem - I´d like to convert my Audiobooks on CDs in one .m4b file with chapters to hear it on iPod. To take about 560 .mp3 files of Harry Potter on the iPod and remember, whitch one I heard last time is too heavy...

Is there anyone, who can write a prog like this http://gapless.itunes.wanderingfocus.com/ for Windows?

THX Mike

You might explain the situation to the authors of Yamb (a graphical frontend for MP4Box). It might be possible, once they've examined the problem, to add XML-muxing and iTunes-compatible parsing to the existing suite of tools.

- M.

Actually, iTunes/QT uses an other way to store chapters entries in mp4 files. So for the moment you can't do that on Windows, only on Mac OS as you said. I'll try to patch MP4Box (but my time is very limited...) or ask to Jean Lefeuvre to add this.

However, all Nero Digital certified players should be able to read/parse this kind of files. Even DirectShow players within Gabest or Haali MP4 Splitter.

Would be nice, if you could do it - i think, all iPod-fans will love you!

THX Mike

Hi,

I had the same problem importing chapters into iTunes since I don't have a mac for using Apple's chaptertool.
But I now found kind of a solution for this. I wrote a small tool that is able to import chapters directly into the iPod-Database instead of muxing them into the files themselves.
To do this I have to tag the audiofile's (via AtomicParsley or whatever) comment with the original filename (so that the tool later on can find this file on the ipod) and create a chapterfile which holds names and timestamps for the chapters.
After starting the tool it will locate the iPod and write the chapterinformation for the specific tags into the database.

Although I just have tested this with aac-files it should work with mp3s, too. Audiobooks and Music chapters both are possible using this way.

If anybody is interested I could make it a bit more userfriendly and release it.
I know that this is not the best solution but hey, at least it's working

You better believe I'm interested!

Will you be able to make it similar enough to ChapterTool so that even a fool like I can use it?

Perhaps something that will take information directly from a single wave file CUE sheet?

At the moment it cannot read cue files, it just supports a simple chapterfile like



etc.

I think this files are simple to create (I also wrote a gui for besweet/neroaacenc which encodes and joins mp3-files to aac and automatically create this chapterfiles).
But if I will find the time this weekend I could add parsing of cuefiles.
Will upload a finished version on sunday I guess.

I'd love to see this working, too! Please let us know if you've gotten it put together.

This is a first betaversion as I promised. Sorry, but I have not had any time to integrate cue-support, yet. Perhaps it will follow.

Please read the readme.txt for further instructions on how to use this tool.

Happy testing
(Bug reports, critics etc welcome)

Ch2iPod

Well, I tried, it crashed (gave me a Windows generic error message.) I had the .chp file in the same folder as the ch2ipod .exe file, too. On the other hand, it didn't trash my iTunes database...

Hmm... Could you please post your chapterfile as well as the last lines of the output the program gave?

I get the following message:
Database-Version != 18 - quitting...

@ greynol: Ah, yes Saw that too. This is because of the new database-version that comes with iTunes 7. I updated the tool so please download it again. I also added a few more error checks.

That seemed to get rid of the error.

I get:
ChapterInformation placed.

Still no sign of chapters upon playback, however.

I have a 3G with the most recent firmware.

@TrooperMan : any chance to share the sources ?

This is a first gui version with some enhancements in compatibility as it seems. For those not having had luck with the console version, try this one

I also added support for cue-files now.

ch2ipod (revpod-gui)

I just got around to trying this.

The GUI looks nice and pretty intuitive.

When I get information for a file and select OK, I get the error:
"Invalid filename."

I first saw this error when trying to add chapter information, but it happens even if I do nothing while the Chapters window is open.

Anyway to use this with MP3s?