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MP3 to iPod Audio Book Converter

Zak allows you to select one or more MP3 files and convert them into a single MP3 or MP4/M4A/M4B file. The primary use for Zak is audio books. Most audio books are distributed in several files, usually one per chapter. Converting these files into a single .m4b allows one to take advantage of the iPod's bookmarking features.

Zak is written in python using the pygtk module. Zak is designed for GNU/Linux, but it is likely possible to get it to work on other systems without too much trouble.

Requires: python, pygtk, gtk+, madplay, and ffmpeg.

Note: This program was inspired by the Windows program "MP3 to iPod Audio Book Converter" available from http://www.freeipodsoftware.com/

OpenSuse 11.1 user can use "1-click" installer -- here


For any other GNU/Linux distro download zak-0.3.tar.gz.
To install, perform the following steps...
Requirments
Make sure your system has all these requirements installed:madplay, ffmpeg, python, pygtk2, vte, gstreamer, gstreamer-python
1. Locate your download and unpack it: tar xzf zak-0.3.tar.gz
2. cd into the unarchived directory: cd zak-0.3/
3. Use sudo (or root) to run the install: sudo python setup.py install 

You should now be able to run zak from the command line


7 comments:

Unknown said...

Awesome ... exactly what I was looking for -- and even a one-click install button (I use suse :) ).
Will try it out tonight.
Thanks!

Anonymous said...

Awesome app, although it won't run when my files have spaces in the names.

Anonymous said...

Does not convert... it show 0% forever.

Anonymous said...

Doesn't work on Ubuntu 11.04. When I click the process button- it finishes in 3 seconds and no file get outputted.

Anonymous said...

Doesn't work on Ubuntu 11.10. When I click the process button- it finishes in 3 seconds with no output. Installed using instructions here, http://mdough3rty.blogspot.com/2011/03/zak-audiobook-converter-in-ubuntu-linux.html

Anonymous said...

Didn't do anything for me. M4baker is great! Check it out.

http://code.google.com/p/m4baker/

Anonymous said...

Not working on Ubuntu 12.04, process runs in few seconds no conversion happens.
Thumb up for m4baker.

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