{"id":3046,"date":"2011-07-25T01:05:18","date_gmt":"2011-07-25T07:05:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gregsowell.com\/?p=3046"},"modified":"2011-07-22T10:05:59","modified_gmt":"2011-07-22T16:05:59","slug":"convert-m4b-to-mp3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gregsowell.com\/?p=3046","title":{"rendered":"Convert M4B to MP3"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I listed to audio books&#8230;a lot.  I used to commute around 200 miles a day.  I then switched to commuting every other day.  I did this for a couple of years.  The ONLY reason I survived all of that driving was audio books.  Even though I now live 15 minutes from the office, I still listen to them.  I have an indash MP3 player in my car for this very purpose.  I recently acquired a new book and it is in M4B format, which my car won&#8217;t read, so I needed to convert it.  I looked for anything freely available and I did find <a href=\"http:\/\/www.maniactools.com\/soft\/m4a-to-mp3-converter\/index.shtml\">one free one<\/a> with what seems no strings attached.  However it will only convert about 2 and a half hours&#8230;my files are 16 hours each.<\/p>\n<p>I found that <a href=\"http:\/\/portableapps.com\/apps\/music_video\/vlc_portable\">VLC<\/a> has the ability to open M4B.  If you click on file there is an option to:<\/p>\n<pre class=\"gs-code\"><code class=\"language-plaintext\">convert\/save<\/code><\/pre>\n<p>You can then choose your output format, MP3, and save!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I listed to audio books&#8230;a lot. I used to commute around 200 miles a day. I then switched to commuting every other day. I\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3046","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fun"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregsowell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3046","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregsowell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregsowell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregsowell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregsowell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3046"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/gregsowell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3046\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3050,"href":"https:\/\/gregsowell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3046\/revisions\/3050"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregsowell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3046"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregsowell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3046"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregsowell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3046"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}