I have just been struggling for the past 3 hours or more trying to convert an audio book from MP3 format to M4b for my iPod. I use the MP3 to iPod Audio Book Converter found here:
http://www.freeipodsoftware.com/
Normally it works quite well but this time it kept crashing/closing when attempting to start file conversion. I re-tried several times and got to the point where my patience was wearing very thin and my laptop was in danger of becoming extinct, as entering all the information each time was time consuming to say the least.
After a lot a trial and error I managed to narrow the problem down to one CD out of the 18 that I had ripped and by trying one track at a time on that CD I discovered a particular track that caused the application to crash.
And can you guess what the problem was?
I couldn't believe it, I'd spent hours trying to do this all because of one character at the end of a file name, a '?'
When I saw it I suddenly had a flash back to the old Windows days and thought Windows doesn't like special characters in file names and the program I was using was running in WINE. So I removed the '?' from the file name and tried again, sure enough it worked, if only I had noticed that 3 hours earlier!
http://www.freeipodsoftware.com/
Normally it works quite well but this time it kept crashing/closing when attempting to start file conversion. I re-tried several times and got to the point where my patience was wearing very thin and my laptop was in danger of becoming extinct, as entering all the information each time was time consuming to say the least.
After a lot a trial and error I managed to narrow the problem down to one CD out of the 18 that I had ripped and by trying one track at a time on that CD I discovered a particular track that caused the application to crash.
And can you guess what the problem was?
I couldn't believe it, I'd spent hours trying to do this all because of one character at the end of a file name, a '?'
When I saw it I suddenly had a flash back to the old Windows days and thought Windows doesn't like special characters in file names and the program I was using was running in WINE. So I removed the '?' from the file name and tried again, sure enough it worked, if only I had noticed that 3 hours earlier!
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