How To Split Audible Audiobook File into Chapters Using Free Software (Audacity)

[@ThinkWithShishir]

Brillian tutorial.

[@zybard01]

Really helped me edit an audio book that Audible does not want me to jail break Thanks. I just want to listen to this on my car flash drive hookup without my phone and internet due to driving in dead zones

[@denimoth]

Great tutorial, thanks! Exactly what I was looking for! FYI, I tried it with a .m4b file and it worked fine (maybe I got lucky?). I didn't need to convert beforehand. I'm using build 3.2.5 and my interface is just a bit different from yours. For the final step, I had to go to File>Export>Export Multiple. Maybe this will help someone else. (edit) Seems I forgot I installed FFmpeg for audacity. Probably why I can just drag and drop mb4 files directly without needing to convert.

[@noskillnochill]

Glad it helped! After reading your comment, I realized that even though i have ffmpeg, I didnt have the specific ffmpeg library for audacity installed. So after installing that, I realized I can drag and drop .mp4s directly into audacity. And thanks for the note about "export multiple" as well. Cheers!

[@Maria_Efe]

This was a bit of a lifesaver, thank you!

[@noskillnochill]

Sorry for the robot voice, i sped the video up so my voice got a bit distorted 😅😅

[@_alexgamos]

This is very helpful. Thank you so much :) - Alex from Philippines

[@f3lixtube]

Excellent. Just what I was looking for. Thank you very much

[@JacobCaruso-z5y]

Thank you! I am doing this to upload the audio of a french book to the app I'm using to learn the language, which would only be possible with the individual chapters.

[@AngeloAduan-we2sd]

Thank you bro. It works for me. Thank you very much !

[@CRLR777]

Thanks brother 👍

[@fulldivemedia]

Really helpful

[@robertsreelfeelreviewsandd5543]

super helpful - thanks!

[@polyp127]

Thank you 🙂

[@Blackeyes24]

If it misses a chapter is there a good way to add it without having to renumber all the chapters it already located?

[@noskillnochill]

Good question. Here are 3 options: 1: Measure the silence duration of the chapter it missed and try re-analyzing the track using that silence duration. of course, that won't work if the silence duration preceding the missing chapter is very short and it starts picking up non-chapters as a result. 2: Manually add your label for the missing chapter (ctrl+b), then go to edit>labels>label editor. Edit all the tracks after the missing chapter. To Rename: double click label text box, type chapter number, then hit enter (which should quickly bring you to the next text box). 3: Manually add your label for the missing chapter (ctrl+b), then select only the portion of the audio track that comes AFTER your missing chapter. Now, run the "Label Sounds" analyzer on that selected portion of the track, and change the "Label Text" field to whatever is the number of the chapter after the missing one. You will now get a 2nd label track. Delete the labels from the 1st label track (only the mis-named ones after the missing chapter), and cut and paste the 2nd label track onto the first. Hope that makes sense!

[@francis1111]

it only does it for 1 chapter, how do u automatically split the other ones with it?

[@noskillnochill]

You may need to change the silence duration when analyzing the track. It may need to be a shorter silence duration. try to manually find a chapter that didn't get labeled and measure the silence duration, then use that as your minimum silence duration. Good luck!

[@SadafNumber6]

Why it only labeled the first one that I had chosen as a sample? Not other chapters

[@noskillnochill]

you probably need to change the silence duration when analyzing the track. It probably needs to be a shorter silence duration. try measuring the silence duration of a chapter it missed, and use that as your minimum silence duration. check and make sure all your settings in "Label Sounds" match the settings in the video. good luck!