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"It would shock many people to know that audiobooks are produced without any sort of unifying specification at all."I wasn't that shocked. :) And my thinking is that if I, a heavy audiobook listener, hadn't been affected by the lack of standardization it probably isn't that big of a problem.
My first thought before even reading the article was actually "they're gonna screw it up". But here's hoping I'm wrong and whatever the problem is.... will be solved?
I agree that it doesn't seem to be a huge problem, judging by the 100s of audiobooks I've read. Although a few days ago I did experience a problem that might be fixed by having some standards. I wanted to listen to a book provided by my library via RBDigital, but their app is so bad that I download the files and transfer them into Apple Books app. In this case, there were about 25 files, two of which appeared in the wrong order, so I had to rename the files to get them to play in the right order. There was another short file at the end, which was clearly not supposed to be there, but I couldn't work out where it should be. It seems to be a duplicate of part of one of the other files.
IvanOpinion wrote: "I agree that it doesn't seem to be a huge problem, judging by the 100s of audiobooks I've read. Although a few days ago I did experience a problem that might be fixed by having some standards. I ..."
It could've just been a screwup by the editor or whoever uploaded to RBDigital. Once I downloaded a book from audible and it concluded at the 50% mark and started over. Audible or whoever had put the same book in the file twice. One other time I downloaded a box set from Audible and the chapters were all mixed up. I was in contact with the author and he was confident everything was correct when it was uploaded to Audible.
I don't think these are so much standards problems as humans are still flawed problems. :)
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