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.

Comments

[falena]

I am old school too, I never stream podfic, I just download the file and load it onto my iPod via iTunes. I strongly prefer single files, no matter how big, because iTunes allows me to mark any file as an audiobook and that way the iPod will automatically remember where I left off when listening.
If I get multiple files for a single story, I just create a playlist.

This being said, I love long podfic so much I'm not that bothered by the specifics of how I get it. :D

[luzula]

Thanks for weighing in! : ) I am envious of your player automatically remembering where you left off listening...