Hi, can anyone help please. having just been introduced to Google Chromecast by my son I am getting to grips with what is now available to me. I however have one major issue! I have a very large Audible Library of some 300 Audio books.
I can convert to MP3 not an issue but these are very very large files and with the Google Play music limit of 300 MB per track these won’t upload as complete books.
Audacity has been suggested to me as an option to deal with this problem. I am thinking that the best option will be to treat each book as an album and each chapter as a track or maybe I am way of course any advice or help with this would be greatly appreciated.
The simple solution would be for Amazon (Audible) and Google to work together for the benefit of us the end user but that would be too much to expect.lol.
Thanks in advance guys.
Cheers Carp King
I can convert to MP3 not an issue
It might be an issue. Audible/ACX requires authors submit work as MP3. It’s almost 100% certain your existing works are already in MP3 as a second conversion. ACX tells us they’re going to do that. You will be making the third conversion. MP3 is not a production medium. Third conversions rarely sound right turning your performances honky and bubbly or talking into a wine glass.
Audacity isn’t magic. Open up a long performance and place Labels at the show break points. File > Export Multiple and Audacity will create individual sound files using the labels as a guide. In the case of making an audio CD, you would open these individual files in the CD Authoring and Burning software and use that to create the disk.
So the show with skip-forward, skip-back and play is handled by the CD and player, not by Audacity.
This is a frequent request: What is the audio format that lets me skip songs forward and back? None I know of. If you’re doing it on-line it’s because somebody programmed the web service to do that, it’s not the sound format.
I don’t see anywhere that Google intends you to post your existing content for management by Chromecast.
Or did I miss a step there?
Koz
I can convert to MP3 not an issue but these are very very large files and with the Google Play music limit of 300 MB per track these won’t upload as complete books.
Most people would prefer separate files for each chapter. 
The simple solution would be for Amazon (Audible) and Google to work together for the benefit of us the end user but that would be too much to expect.lol.
As far as I know, all Audible books are copy protected (DRM) and copyrighted… They don’t want you making copies at all…
Hi, thanks for the replies.
Audible Audio books are produced as aax files, these convert to MP3 with any issues that I have experienced so far.
Unfortunately as stated Google play Music with only unload files with a maximum size of 300 MB. I therefore need to find a method of creating smaller uploadable files i.e. as stated treat the books as an album and each chapter as an individual track. I have been advised that some audible users are doing this or at least have found a way to produce uploadable files for Google Play Music using Audacity. I was hoping someone would be able to help me with this problem. 
Sorry Koz,
I am confused I’m not a sound engineers so plain english with out any jargon please .
Audacity has the ability to add Labels to a show to indicate significant points in time. The illustration is a monolog. If you have a stereo music show, you may have two blue waves.
The labels can be used as part of the Export system to automatically break one long show into individual sound files. In the illustration, I will get three independent sound files out of that. There’s a label at the start of each song. File > Export > Export Multiple.
Fair warning, if you do add text to the labels, stick to computer file characters, Upper Case, Lower Case, Numbers, -Dash- and Underscore.
https://manual.audacityteam.org/man/label_tracks.html
Post back if you get stuck.
Koz
Hi Koz, many thanks, I can see where you going and that looks fairly straight forward. As far as labels go they can be kept very simple such as Chap 1, Chap 2 etc if that would work Ok?
Appreciate your time and trouble.
Regards Ralph