MasterClass Audio-friendly Audiobooks Big Collection

MasterClass audio-friendly audiobook Big Collection  - m4b 32Kbps aac chaptered



combines MasterClass audio-friendly audiobook Collection 1 and 2

plus these two audiobooks

Matthew Walker - The Science of Better Sleep

Salman Rushdie - Storytelling and Writing



MasterClass audio-friendly Collection - m4b 32Kbps aac chaptered



21 audiobooks + 9 additional audiobooks = 30 total



These 21 are the officially recommended classes from MasterClass as being

audio-friendly within the iOS app.  Although that section has since been removed.



Aaron Sorkin - Screenwriting

Billy Collins - Reading and Writing Poetry

Bob Iger - Business Strategy and Leadership

Bob Woodward - Investigative Journalism

Christina Aguilera - Singing

Dan Brown - Writing Thrillers

Danny Elfman - Music for Film

David Baldacci - Mystery and Thriller Writing

David Mamet - Dramatic Writing

David Sedaris - Storytelling and Humor

Doris Kearns Goodwin - U.S. Presidential History and Leadership

Dr. Jane Goodall - Conservation

Howard Schultz - Business Leadership

James Patterson - Writing

Joyce Carol Oates - The Art of the Short Story

Judy Blume - Writing

Malcolm Gladwell - Writing

Margaret Atwood - Creative Writing

Neil Gaiman - Art Of Storytelling

R.L. Stine - Writing For Young Audiences

Sara Blakely - Self-Made Entrepreneurship



Chris Voss - The Art of Negotiation

--- nothing missed



David Axelrod And Karl Rove - Campaign Strategy and Messaging

--- nothing missed



Hans Zimmer - Film Scoring

--- 1 minute shows him composing on his sound equipment

--- just several very brief soundtracks with movie scenes like for 10 to 15 seconds each

--- won't see some titles of soundtracks but mentions which movie

--- watch his concert Hans Zimmer - Live in Prague 2017

if you really wanna hear his superb soundtrack scores



James Suckling - Wine Appreciation

--- need to see color of grapes, rocks and wine...hmm no ya don't

--- his descriptions defy descriptions it's like "cherries with berries"

so in essence it's more than adequate to know what's going on

--- see people swirling wine glasses and holding them up to their noses



Matthew Walker - The Science of Better Sleep

-- a few graphs but most can be seen in the PDF workbook



Neil Degrasse Tyson - Scientific Thinking and Communication

--- not much visually at all.  

--- It's not at all like his documentary series

Cosmos: A Spacetime Odyssey (2014)



Paul Krugman - Economics and Society

--- a few graphs which he explains anyway and some are in the PDF



Salman Rushdie - Storytelling and Writing

-- a few shots of his books but most are in the PDF workbook



Shonda Rhimes - Writing for Television

--- maybe 8 or so tv scenes about 20 seconds each

--- this is storytelling, plot and character development not acting

so just listening to the tv scenes should more than suffice





These nine classes were not audio-friendly according to the

MasterClass app but after reviewing all video classes I thought

these qualify with the caveats listed above.

Watch the videos for the rest of the Masterclass classes.





workflow to make an m4b chaptered audiobook

any .mp4 or .mkv video ---> freac ---> mp3 files ---> audiobook builder (mac) ---> m4b





m4b audiobook players capabilities



free --- VLC, IINA, BookPlayer



iOS --- Flacbox, Evermusic Pro, MP3 Audiobook Player Pro, BookPlayer, VLC

android --- Listen Audiobook Player, Smart Audiobook Player, VLC

windows --- VLC

mac --- VLC, IINA

linux --- VLC



displays chapters --- VLC, IINA, MP3 Audiobook Player Pro, BookPlayer

Listen Audiobook Player, Smart Audiobook Player



batch import --- MP3 Audiobook Player Pro, BookPlayer



stream SMB only --- VLC

stream SMB, WebDav, most cloud services --- Flacbox, EverMusic Pro



(not sure of android apps streaming or batch importing capabilities)