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 Subject: Re: Merlin - M4a is not an MP3 format WANKER What have you posted today?
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 In reply to "Wally" who wrote the following:
 
 > alt.binaries.sounds.audiobooks, but generally I'd convert them to
 > mp3's.  I use Format Factory, a freebie program for that.  Then I
 > discovered the audiobook reader I use doesn't care what the format is
 > and there are enough advantages to the m4b format that I've pretty
 > much stopped converting.  In other words, I really don't care anymore
 > what the format is.
 >
 > That being said, I think most of the audiobook thing is moving to
 > torrents.  I am finding great advantages to torrents for posting.  It
 > takes me about 10 minutes to get a torrent up and running.  The James
 > Herbert books (19 of them) that I posted the torrent for would have
 > tied up my computer for the better part of a day.   Regardless of
 > size, a torrent still only takes a few minutes.
 >
 > The downside to the torrents is a good torrent site may be there one
 > day and absolutely gone the next never to be seen again.
 
 Usenet is all about private, closed nzb sites now. Hard for casual ppl to get
 involved.
 
 
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