Do you prefer your podfics with chapters?

[luzula]

So I'm recording my recent longfic, and wondering if I should keep the chapter breaks, or just read on. And if I do keep the chapter breaks, should I make each chapter into a different file? The whole thing will be about five and a half hours, and there are eight chapters as well as a prologue and epilogue. So that's a little more than half an hour per chapter, on average.

I know most people probably listen by streaming these days, right? Me, I still download the files and put them on my mp3-player (yes, I'm old-school), so I don't like files that are too large, because if I lose my place, I can't find it again. But OTOH, I don't know if it will bother people who stream if I do have multiple half-hour files, and put them all in a folder on box.com? This is the way I usually do it for long podfics, though the files are usually larger.

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[luzula]

Do streaming sites not automatically start playing the next file when one file is finished?

Hmm, yeah, I will investigate this. If it works that way, then having several files shouldn't bother people who stream.

Can you see from the statistics of the hosting site(s) you use whether people mostly download or stream?

I think I could, but I would need a paid account...

Also, I'm very happy to hear you're recording your last long fic!

Well, obviously I am. : D