Audiobook Builder App Reviews

I highly recommend this product.

Great app! I love audiobooks and have a lot of them on CD. But it was always a pain to upload them to iTunes and then I would have 17 differrent files (1 for each CD). Now I just use this app and it’s like listening to Audible files. Great app! One suggestion, add the ability to join files longer than 13 hours.

This program does one thing well. It imprts several CDs as one single track. If you want more features, look elsewhere. I love using this because I get audiobooks on CD from our locak library and import them. I’ve done books with as many as 30 CDs without any problems. Thanks Splasm!

Don’t bother with version 1.5.3 in Yosemite. It’s worthless. Almost every function crashes the app.

Ive been putting up with manually ripping my audio book CDs into iTunes and having my audiobooks mixed in with my songs. I could manually set remember location when playing, set as compilation to group my book as n album, but I was really frustrated at not getting the .M4a files to show as .M4b in the media type, or the ability to join multiple tracks as a single chapter. Then I found AudioBook helper. Looks like there are a couple similar apps in the store that do the same function, but the clean UI, the active user forums where the developer answers questions and the reasonable $5 price I jumped. Happy to say it works really well. Love that I can easily merge tracks. I can drag/drop existing iTunes audio book albums into AudioBook Builder to clean up. I can add chapter names, book cover and chapter art. The only feedback Id give the developer is: - Bug: If you are in the chapter tab playing a track trying to find where the next chapter starts and using the forward/backward track button, youll hear the name of the chapter you want, let it play while you name it and when you hit next chapter the named track gets applied to the next track, not the track you are on. Only found this after having all my chapters offset by 1 track, annoying, but once you know to stop preview while naming it is avoidable. - Auto naming, numbering tools. If you have hundreds of tracks it would be great to be able to auto name sections at a time (probably after the files have been captured). For now Im just wholesale merging all these tracks into chapters, but in the user forums you note that Apple no longer honors custom chapter names so Im not sure that youll address this until Apple fixes their bug/as designed. - Make it clear about the maximum audio lengths and the need to break up books that span days! - Add better error handling around Amazon Audible Book format .aax. I downloaded some of my Audible books and tried to convert but I’m guessing there are some DRM issues. Would be great if you could handle them, but at a minimum add some better error messaging around them so users understand that this is an Apple - Audible backdoor into iTunes.

Create audiobooks just the way you like them. Add almost any audiofile without a problem I’ve been using this for awhile and have no complaints.

I don’t know how this program could be easier to use, especially when downloading multiple CDs. Just start the process, and when one CD is done, the program will automatically eject it, then when you put the next CD in, it will start downloading immediately, without needing to push any buttons. I’ve been using this program for 4 years now and still love it. That’s high praise from a picky person such as myself!

Although this app may not have been updated in a while, it still worked for me without any issues; I’m using OS 10.10.4. Great application, easy to use and fixed my problem of having too many CD tracks for audio books…and now they’re properly about to be bookmarked in the m4b audiobook format!

Simple and easy to use. When I encountered a problem (me not the app) support was right there with a timely answer.

Ever since iTunes 11 or 12, the ease of transitioning MP3 files to audiobook format has gone away. I hate that I had to spend $10 to make iTunes work for what used to be easy, but this app made my life so much easier, it was worth every penny. Thank goodness someone figured out a solution.

This app is weak and lack of essential features like chapters, parts, etc. Both iTunes and Audible didn’t support the format the audiobook this app created. Useless. Waste my money.

Thank you! I have so many audiobooks that I’ve put in itunes (from cd) and it is really nice to be able to clean them up to 1 or 2 files at most!

I wanted to let everyone know that I value support almost as much as how well an app works. I contacted support for Audiobook Builder yesterday about 30 minutes before the end of their work day. They responed within 15 minutes. When I continued to have questions, they kept answering 90 minutes after the close of their work day. My issue was solved. Suffice to say that I am very satisfied with support and the program works absolutely great!

This is by far the easiest and best audio “borrower” app available. I am by no means a tech sophisticate and this has worked like a charm for years. It more than replaces the clunky muti-step method iTunes uses. The support is uncustomarily terrific and when the El Capitan glitch emerged they emailed within 15 minutes and solved the problem. I wish all companies were like this. Worth every penny and more.

I love Audiobook Builder and use it serveral times a month to build books from books on cd. It works perfectly. I contacted customer support today with a problem after downloading the latest version to work with El Capitan. I heard back within 15 minutes and received a serial number to allow me to use the app. Splasmata is the best!

Works great. I recently used this app to turn 100+ MP3 files for an audiobook into a single bookmarkablke file that was almost half the size.

I love this App! Takes a confusing quicktime process and turns it into a drag & drop one. Works great.

I have used this program for years. I have even converted some of the podcasts to audiobook so I can listen on my Classic iPod. Ran into a problem trying to open after I upgraded to El Capitan. Works on 1 mac but not the other. So I will give the MAC APP a try.

It took this app nearly 2 minutes for “preparatory work” before starting the CD rip, and then the rip speed was unusably slow. After over 10 minutes of glacial progress the app had ripped less that half of the first CD of my audiobook! I stopped the rip, switched to iTunes and it ripped the entire CD in less than 4 minutes. This is ridiculous. I don’t know what this app does, but it is so slow that I can’t use it. Ripping a long audio book would take a day. Nonsense!

I’ve used a few of these types of programs, but they have all had some sort of problem. For example, one wouldn’t even create an audiobook with the files/chapters in the right order! Or there would be errors dragging files in from iTunes, or importing files from CDs, etc. This program does not have the prettiest interface, but it has almost always worked flawlessly for me for 5+ years.