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

MORE DATA THAN YOU WANT

[jesse_the_k]

I'm also a downloader because I'm floating free in time and always want to have it really in my hands.

I prefer chapters because my memory sucks, and I often have to rewind to get back up to speed. If I lose my place in one giant file I may just give up.

If a file comes in many MP3s, I use AudioBookBinder which makes a single Apple-format audiobook, with a chapter location for each MP3.

Re: MORE DATA THAN YOU WANT

[luzula]

No no, this is not more data than I want. : ) I've pretty much decided to go with separate mp3 files for each chapter, it's what I prefer myself, and it doesn't look like it would really bother anyone else.