{"id":3657,"date":"2021-06-12T09:25:38","date_gmt":"2021-06-12T14:25:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.splasmata.com\/?p=3657"},"modified":"2021-07-01T23:12:49","modified_gmt":"2021-07-02T04:12:49","slug":"audiobook-builder-vs-some-mp3s-on-macos-11-big-sur","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.splasmata.com\/?p=3657","title":{"rendered":"Audiobook Builder vs. some MP3s on macOS 11.3 and later"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em><strong>Update 7\/1\/2021:<\/strong> Audiobook Builder 2.1.4 is now available. <a href=\"https:\/\/splasm.com\/audiobookbuilder\/update.html\">Grab the update.<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong><em>Update 6\/28\/2021:  <\/em><\/strong><em>Some folks running macOS 11.3 have reported the same issue.  Audiobook Builder 2.1.4 will bring the fix to those users.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>A few days ago<\/strong> we got word from a user who saw <a href=\"https:\/\/splasm.com\/audiobookbuilder\">Audiobook Builder 2.1.2<\/a> on macOS 11.4 shorten <em>some<\/em> of their MP3 files &#8211; not always the same files and not other formats, like AAC &#8211; as they were added to each project.  They sent over a folder of MP3s for us to test and, sure enough, there&#8217;s an issue with how AVFoundation, the Apple framework underlying Audiobook Builder&#8217;s audio handling abilities, figures out how long some MP3 files are.  We say <em>some<\/em> because the MP3 files we use when testing Audiobook Builder don&#8217;t seem to have the same problem, maybe because they have a constant, instead of variable, data rate.  It&#8217;s not something to worry about when you&#8217;re listening to an MP3, as the player reads the file from start to finish and plays whatever it finds, but when you&#8217;re moving MP3 data to a QuickTime MOV file, like Audiobook Builder does so it can better handle things when building, you need a precise duration to get the job done.  It looks like a recent change in how macOS 11 Big Sur handles things now requires we pass a hint to AVFoundation to read MP3 files from start to finish just to be sure of their duration &#8211; so that&#8217;s what we&#8217;re testing now.  It adds a little time to adding MP3 files to your Audiobook Builder projects, but we optimized another piece of that puzzle that just about balances out things so you won&#8217;t notice.  We&#8217;ll have an update out very soon, but if you need anything in the meantime please keep in touch at <a href=\"mailto:support@splasm.com\">support@splasm.com<\/a>!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Update 7\/1\/2021: Audiobook Builder 2.1.4 is now available. Grab the update. Update 6\/28\/2021: Some folks running macOS 11.3 have reported the same issue. Audiobook Builder 2.1.4 will bring the fix to those users. A few days ago we got word &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.splasmata.com\/?p=3657\">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],"tags":[12],"class_list":["post-3657","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-audiobook-builder","tag-support"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.splasmata.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3657","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=3657"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/www.splasmata.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3657\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3674,"href":"https:\/\/www.splasmata.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3657\/revisions\/3674"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.splasmata.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3657"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.splasmata.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3657"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.splasmata.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3657"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}