A friend came to me with what he felt was a complex problem. His wife had purchased Dan Brown's Angels & Demons unabridged on audio CD for $1.50 at a yard sale. Great gift except for two problems: First, he does not carry a CD Player around; he carries an iPhone and wanted to listen to the book whenever he had free time. Next, even if he isolated the book to his car, it was still 15 discs long and this was not as convenient as traditional audiobooks from Audible.com. He initially tried to use iTunes but the process was not as clean as desired and he ended up with hundreds of individual files that made a mess of his iTunes library. I did later learn the reason the CD set was so cheap was disc 1, 4, and 12 would not play. Like any geek I broke out the toothpaste with baking soda and polished the disc and like magic they played fine. [click to continue…]
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