With so many Apple fans on the globe, anything that is not ported to Apple platform is going to miss a big audience. Fortunately, there is a growing number of applications that bridge the divide between Apple fans and the rest of the world. One such awesome product is Audiobook Binder.

Audiobook Binder allows you to convert audio files (songs, audio books, voice files etc.) from popular MP3 format to MP4 bookmarkable (m4b) format for iPod users. It is a simple utility for quick conversion of individual pieces as well as audio files in bulk.

Audiobook Binder is available in CLI as well as GUI version.  It is free and open source. Just grab sources and start hacking.

Features

• Author/title information in m4b audiobook
• Cover artwork
• Chapter markers
• Tuneable audio encoding properties: mono/stereo, sample rate, bitrate
• Automatically adds m4b files to iTunes media library when encoding is finished