Aaron Adams’s Blowhard Blog

A few days ago, I bought the audiobook John Adams with the intention of listening to it in my car on the drive to and from Nashville to appear on Your Mac Life the week of WWDC. In total, the book is nine hours and 54 minutes long, and that’s the abridged version. I figure the drive is five hours each way, so along the whole trip, I’ll hear the entire book.

iTunes breaks the book into five parts, all except the last being a little more than two hours in length. This creates a bit of a dilemma for me. My car has a CD player, and I don’t have an audio-in jack for my iPod. Nor have I yet purchased an FM transmitter for my iPod nano. And since each audio file, except one, is longer than what can fit on a CD, I can’t burn five CDs and listen to it that way either.

In my opinion, if a music service is going to split almost ten hours of audio into multiple parts, make those parts CD burnable. I don’t think that’s an unreasonable request.

Until then, I’ll be acquiring an iTrip auto for my audiobook listening pleasure.