Combining audio files

[cfleck]

I have ripped some of my audio books onto my mac, but now they are 100+ tracks long per book. For whatever reason, my iPod doesn't recognize these in the audiobooks section. So my "solution" is to somehow join these files together so there are only 3-5 per book, much like the audiobooks I get from audible.

Is this a retarded idea or am I on to something?

Is there software out there that would allow me to do this without converting them to wavs and then combining and recompressing?

 

[Mikuro]

MP3 Trimmer can split and join mp3s without reencoding, as long as the different mp3s are similar types (e.g., you can't join a 128kbps mp3 with a 320kbps mp3, and vbr can cause issues in some cases).

If you want to re-rip the CD audio as one file, I think iTunes can do that with it's "Join CD Tracks" feature (under the Advanced menu). Never used it myself, though.