{"id":3375,"date":"2019-10-15T21:57:24","date_gmt":"2019-10-16T02:57:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.splasmata.com\/?p=3375"},"modified":"2019-10-15T22:01:16","modified_gmt":"2019-10-16T03:01:16","slug":"audiobook-builder-2-1-is-ready","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.splasmata.com\/?p=3375","title":{"rendered":"Audiobook Builder 2.1 is ready"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Audiobook Builder 2.1<\/strong> brings compatibility enhancements for macOS 10.15 Catalina&#8217;s Books and Music applications, featuring extra preferences so you can spec where you want your audiobooks saved now that Books manages your audiobooks and Music manages your music.  Outputting <strong>M4B<\/strong> audiobooks?  Use the <strong>Save Audiobooks to<\/strong> setting.  Opting for more compatible <strong>M4A<\/strong> music tracks?  Go for the <strong>Save Music to<\/strong> setting.  Go to the <strong>Audiobook Builder<\/strong> menu at the top left corner of your screen and click the <strong>Preferences&#8230;<\/strong> menu item to see these new settings.  We&#8217;ve also maintained compatibility with iTunes in macOS Mojave and earlier, so if you&#8217;re holding off on the Catalina upgrade everything will work just as it always has, plus 2.1&#8217;s minor user interface enhancements and a bit of accommodation for some of the &#8220;homemade&#8221; audio files out there.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>One gotcha<\/strong> with 2.1 from the Mac App Store on Catalina:  there&#8217;s a glitch in Music&#8217;s AppleScript support that prevents sandboxed applications from locating a track&#8217;s file on disk.  This means Audiobook Builder&#8217;s <strong>Add Music<\/strong> button and menu item won&#8217;t work for now.  Apple&#8217;s well aware Music&#8217;s AppleScript support for locating tracks on disk is broken, but feel free to send some feedback their way to let them know <em>you<\/em> know <em>they<\/em> know <em>and<\/em> you&#8217;re finger-drumming the <em>1812 overture <\/em>and feel like you&#8217;re nearing mastery of syncopation already.  That&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/feedbackassistant.apple.com\">http:\/\/feedbackassistant.apple.com<\/a>, with a blurb about the need for complete AppleScript support in Music so <strong>sandboxed <\/strong>third-party applications can locate file tracks on disk.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Audiobook Builder 2.1 is a free update if you already have a license for any version of 2.  <a href=\"http:\/\/splasm.com\/audiobookbuilder\/update.html\">Click here<\/a> for update details.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Audiobook Builder 2.1 brings compatibility enhancements for macOS 10.15 Catalina&#8217;s Books and Music applications, featuring extra preferences so you can spec where you want your audiobooks saved now that Books manages your audiobooks and Music manages your music. Outputting M4B &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.splasmata.com\/?p=3375\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3375","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-audiobook-builder","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.splasmata.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3375","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.splasmata.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.splasmata.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.splasmata.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.splasmata.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3375"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.splasmata.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3375\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3380,"href":"https:\/\/www.splasmata.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3375\/revisions\/3380"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.splasmata.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3375"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.splasmata.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3375"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.splasmata.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3375"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}