Stick This in Your Ear
January 30th, 2020Audio Bible Rip Completed
I’m finally free! I just finished ripping the Zondervan audio King James to MP3’s, and I’m loading them onto a flash drive to see if it works.
It has been two weeks since my CD’s arrived. I’ve been working on this almost every day, ripping one chapter at a time, renaming the chapters, saving them in folders…what a chore. I just read that there are 1189 chapters in the Bible. I had to go through this procedure with every single one.
I’m looking forward to having a portable audio Bible. The other day I heard Mark Hemans say Jesus was present in his word, and it made sense to me, so I decided I wanted to be able to hear the Bible wherever I was. Hemans says the word itself has power. I suppose that depends somewhat on the person who is listening to it, but I know it’s true in my case.
This will be great. I memorize things and forget them. These MP3’s will help me hang on.
Now I know what I have to look forward to: weeks of waiting to see if I messed up any of the files. If I have, they’re going to jump out at me eventually. Then I’ll have to go back and redo them.
I have the Psalms playing on my bedroom TV already. They’re over 4 hours long, and I have them repeating. We’ll see how it goes.
It’s always wonderful when computers turn out to be good for something other than cat pictures and porn.
January 30th, 2020 at 5:22 PM
You probably don’t want to hear this at this point but there are programs out there called macro recorders that can automate this. You record yourself moving the mouse & clicking the buttons, and the program is capable of repeatedly playing your actions back onto a window. Isn’t totally helpful if you have to do something like type a different name for every file, but if you don’t, it can be a huge effort saver.
I haven’t used these in ages but I think the most common one was called AutoHotKey at one point.
January 31st, 2020 at 10:24 AM
Why not just sign up for a free trial at Audible, download the version of The Bible you like and cal the subscription? Might have saved a lot of effort
January 31st, 2020 at 1:17 PM
Maybe I should have done that, but it seemed crooked.
January 31st, 2020 at 3:35 PM
Could pay for the subscription for a month, and not listen to anything else, so you’re not stealing. It’s water under the bridge now, of course.
February 1st, 2020 at 7:55 PM
Is that the:
”Dramatized Audio Bible – King James Version, KJV: Complete Bible” ?
That is the only Zondervan KJV on Amazon.
February 2nd, 2020 at 2:09 PM
Is it possible to turn Amazon audio books into MP3 files?
Regarding the edition, yes, it’s the complete KJV from Zondervan. I’m having second thoughts about it. The guy who reads most of the text makes a lot of pronunciation mistakes.
February 2nd, 2020 at 8:05 PM
I haven’t tried this myself, but it looks like you can convert Amazon audio books to MP3 files using OpenAudible available at https://openaudible.org/
February 3rd, 2020 at 5:02 PM
Congratulations ! Enjoy listening to the Word ! You may also enjoy listening to Through The Bible with Dr. J. Vernon McGee, as I do. It is available for free download at ttb.org . It is a Bible study program that goes through the complete Bible in half hour chunks and is very enjoyable.