make tracks out of mp3 audiobooks

[cinta]

hi, I have several long mp3 from audiobooks and would like to set chapters or tracks, so that I could quickly go back everytime to where I left.
I have'nt really found anything related in the forum, althou there are some vague references to spliting files with BeSweet and BeSplit -- but I can't see any clear indication to setting these chapter marks, or spliting in tracks so as to go from one to another as you'd go from song to song in an Mp3 Player.
thanks in advance for any advice
cinta

[KpeX]

Hi -

One option would be to use Besplit to split the track into individual chapter files and then load up all the individual files into the playlist of your favorite MP3 player (winamp or foobar2k works great).

Another option would be to mark the chapters and keep the MP3 file. Using MKVmerge (http://forum.doom9.org/showthread.php?s=&threadid=64548) you can mux the MP3 file into an MKA file (this is a lossless process) and add chapters to the MKA file from a .cue file or from a OGG/Matroska chapters file (which you would have to create yourself, the format is quite simple, see the documentation). hth,

[cinta]

thanks, thou working an mp3 file with BeSplit seems a bit criptic for a new comer like me:
i.e.
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Usage :
BeSplit -core( .. ) -split( .. )
core switches sets files arguments & engine behavior.
split section holds the list of timestamps to be splitted.
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:scared:

[KpeX]

See the included examples.txt for more information, or use the search, it's fairly simple. You'll pretty much have to come up with your own split points and chapters, because most of these tools are designed for DVD in which we have an IFO file to do these things automatically.