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

[mific]

I still download podfics that I want to keep and listen to again - and yours are definitely ones I'd want to keep! I don't use a separate mp3 player, but play them mostly on my laptop using windows media player or VLC player. Ideally if you can offer mp3 chapters and also a collated m4b file, that'd be great.

[luzula]

Thanks for weighing in! : )

The only difficulty with having both mp3-files and also an m4b is that I would run out of hosting space more quickly...maybe I should look into additional hosting. But I'm at least very happy that my current hosting has been so stable over the years.

[mific]

Yeah, I've used a free mediafire account for ages to host my podfics (and everything else, like art). It's pretty reasonable with the storage space and a stable platform.