Fic: Breaking to You

[beanside]

This was written for the incomparable poisontaster for her birthday, which is today!

It ran a little long, so we ended up putting it in three parts.

Title: Breaking to You
Authors: nilchance and beanside
Rating: NC-17
Pairing: JA/JDM/JP
Disclaimer: Not ours, didn't happen.

Part One

Part Two

Part Three

Comments

Re: Feedback and Come Begging

[cybel]

Oops, I should have explained. Lots of people have never heard of audiobooks in this context. Also, a correction to my post as I am brain cell impaired: the 'books I'm doing for Resonant weren't read by Issaro, but by another fine reader, Zabira. It is 'Receding', an SPN gen fic by Mink and Jink, that I 'booked for Issaro and that is now up with her downloads.

So, regular podfics are plain MP3 audio files, often broken into many small segments for long stories, as Issaro's are. They are filed by iTunes among all your other music files. Luckily, with newer versions of iTunes, you can individually tag these not to play when you shuffle, but the files are still there mixed in with your music where they really don't belong.

When these files are converted to audiobooks, you get several advantages. First, both short and long stories become just one file (very long stories are probably best separated into about 3 hour parts for uploading and downloading convenience). The comparable length files are actually a bit smaller than MP3 files. The 'book plays with attached cover art, just like a music album (which is why I asked if you'd like to choose the cover). Also, iTunes recognizes the file as an audiobook rather than a song and places in a separate audiobook folder; it does not show up when you browse your music files, play, or shuffle them. Finally, and best of all for long stories, the file is automatically bookmarkable, so if you are listening on your iPod or MP3 player and turn it off, it will pick up at that spot when you turn it back on.

Hope that answers your questions.