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Originally Posted by theducks
Get VLC 
I selected a folder with the audiobook files, right clicked: 'open with VLC'
VLC showed them in its playlist. Hit Stop
I adjusted the order (sort on Track, in my case)
File: Save Playlist, (chose a Name and one of 4 playlist types.
Must'a taken a minute |
drifting off topic here, but...
I have VLC, & zoom player, & WMP & sony readers & sony walkman each has its merits & its weaknesses for audio files.
e.g. VLC can't display album art from with MP3 tags, or lyrics ditto. , but it has skip back / forward n seconds ,and speeds of 0.9, 1.1x which WMP does not have. But WMP has a pretty good searchable library system, whereas VLCs attempt at a library system is a joke....
so I can e.g. go to WMP , make a playlist of all songs with "train" in the title. save it as a .wpl file. open it with VLC & splat... to make the same playlist in VLC would be painful as it's clueless when it comes to searching a big audio library. horses for courses I guess...
AFAIK, WMP can't read VLC play-lists & vice versa. For my Sony walkman you have to make the playlists one particular way or they don't copy over.... the sony e-reader can only play audio files set up in a single "album"... but you can use a goto slider within hour-long MP3s on the e-reader ( which you can't do on the walkman)
anyway the essential feature for audio books is "where did I get to" .the only format with good audio bookmarking is .m4b & apple have it so locked down so that non-apple gadgets cannot support it. So you have to resort to mp3 splitters & remember last ( small) file played.
using playlists as your database hook leaves you still having to manage where/how you file the actual audio book data, and playlists are prone to failing whenever you mess with your naming / filing conventions as they are not self-maintaining. I mess with mp3 files a lot using the excellent mp3tag freeware, so my playlists are forever going out-of-date.