{"id":98,"date":"2004-03-15T07:52:18","date_gmt":"2004-03-15T07:52:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.docbug.com\/blog\/archives\/98"},"modified":"2004-03-15T07:52:18","modified_gmt":"2004-03-15T07:52:18","slug":"making-your-own-aac-files-bookmarkable-on-ipod","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.docbug.com\/blog\/archives\/98","title":{"rendered":"Making your own AAC files bookmarkable on iPod"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Doug Adams of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.malcolmadams.com\/itunes\/index.php\">Doug&#8217;s Scripts for iTunes<\/a> has just <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ipodlounge.com\/articles_more.php?id=3233_0_8_0_M\">posted about<\/a> a nice little bit of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.malcolmadams.com\/itunes\/scripts\/ss.php?sp=makebookmarkable\">Applescript<\/a> he&#8217;s coded  to make any AAC file bookmarkable on your iPod, just like Audible.com&#8217;s audio books. Apparently all it takes is to change the file type (not the extension) to the four-character string &#8220;M4B &#8221; (note the space). Apple posted the method in their Knowledge Base (article #93731), but the article was then quickly removed.<\/p>\n<p>I have to wonder why Apple felt the need to pull this info (I also wonder how\/if they thought pulling it would stop it from being used now that it&#8217;s out, but that&#8217;s another question). My best guess is they have some sort of exclusive deal with Audible.com for bookmarking capability, and somebody blew it by revealing the hack they used. I&#8217;d love to hear if someone knows more about the politics behind this though.<\/p>\n<p>(Thanks to Rawhide for the link, and of course Doug Adams for the script!)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Doug Adams of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.malcolmadams.com\/itunes\/index.php\">Doug&#8217;s Scripts for iTunes<\/a> has just <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ipodlounge.com\/articles_more.php?id=3233_0_8_0_M\">posted about<\/a> a nice little bit of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.malcolmadams.com\/itunes\/scripts\/ss.php?sp=makebookmarkable\">Applescript<\/a> he&#8217;s coded  to make any AAC file bookmarkable on your iPod, just like Audible.com&#8217;s audio books. Apparently all it takes is to change the file type (not the extension) to the four-character string &#8220;M4B &#8221; (note the space). Apple posted the method in their Knowledge Base (article #93731), but the article was then quickly removed.<\/p>\n<p>I have to wonder why Apple felt the need to pull this info (I also wonder how\/if they thought pulling it would stop it from being used now that it&#8217;s out, but that&#8217;s another question). My best guess is they have some sort of exclusive deal with Audible.com for bookmarking capability, and somebody blew it by revealing the hack they used. I&#8217;d love to hear if someone knows more about the politics behind this though.<\/p>\n<p>(Thanks to Rawhide for the link, and of course Doug Adams for the script!)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-98","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-media-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.docbug.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.docbug.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.docbug.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.docbug.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.docbug.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=98"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.docbug.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.docbug.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=98"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.docbug.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=98"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.docbug.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=98"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}