Some of my audiobooks download as 1 7-hour long track. Others are in iTunes as 50-100 separate tracks (that sometime get out of order). I would like to merge the tracks so each audiobook appears as one long file/track. How do I do this?
How to merge tracks from audiobooks so they are one file instead of 100 separate tracks
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Home sharing should allow you to see each other's libraries over your home network, and drag apps from your wife's onto yours and vice versa. You can definitely do this despite having two accounts - my wife and I have a similar problem. You may have to enter both passwords from time to time to authorize purchases, though.
I found some help setting this up from "Activating Home Sharing in iTunes".
I believe you can also sort hers by "items I don't have" so you can see what she might have bought of interest to you, although I'm not sure you can automatically sync them.
This SuperUser question seems to suggest that merging two accounts is not an option:
Can I merge 2 iTunes Store accounts?
First, you can save some space by only up-converting to 128kbps m4a or even mp3, perhaps that is what you did already.
The metadata Kind should probably be set as "Music" if not already.
Finally, it's possible that Apple uses the audio fingerprinting to also detect whether it is music at all (but it seems unlikely).
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I do this in the terminal with ffmpeg.
ffmpegto /usr/local/bin. Alternately, if you use Homebrew or MacPorts, you canbrew install ffmpegorsudo port install ffmpeg, respectively.cdinto a directory containing all the audiobook segments you want to join together. Make sure the file path does not contain any spaces.ffmpeg -safe 0 -f concat -i <(for f in $PWD/*.EXT; do echo "file '$f'"; done) -codec copy full.EXT, replacing both instances of "EXT" with the file extension used by your audiobook (mp3, m4a, etc).This will, of course, not work with DRM'd audiobooks. The same will be true for any tool that does not strip the DRM.