Full Guide on How to Combine M4B Files

Q:"What are some good hassle-free programs out there that I can use to combine M4B files recorded from my favorite audiobook?" - Shirley from Video Help

What is M4B? If you are an audiobook hobbyist, you must be never unfamiliar with M4B. It is a file extension, commonly used for audiobooks. Like Shirley, you may also intend to merge M4B files into one file for easy management when you record or capture several of them from unprotected audiobooks that interest you. Usually in this case, only with a specialized audio joiner can it get realized. For this, this guide gives 2 best audio joiners as well as presenting how to merge some of M4B files using such two programs.

• Method 1. Joyoshare Video Joiner
• Method 2. Helium Audio Joiner

Part 1. Combine M4B Files with Joyoshare Video Joiner

To professionally merge two or three M4B files captured from unprotected audiobooks, here, a reputable desktop joining program - Joyoshare Video Joiner is recommended to you. It is a brand new video/audio joiner with high performance. With it, you have the ability not only to combine an unlimited number of M4B files with zero quality loss but also to cut and edit them in a light-hearted way.

Furthermore, it has the advantages of wide compatibility and easy operation. To be more exact, it lends support to an extensive number of audio/video formats, including M4B, M4A, M4R, M4V, MP3, OGG, AIFF, CAF, APE, AAC, AU, AVI, WAV, WMA, WMV, 3GP, and many others. As for operation, Joyoshare Video Joiner comes with a compact layout instead of a complicated interface. It is fairly simple to operate even for a novice. By the way, it gives you an option to extract audio from any video without making an effort.

Key Features of Joyoshare Video Joiner:

• Join M4B files with lossless quality in high speed
• Feature a friendly user interface and easy to operate
• Support a range of file formats and even GIFs/live photos
• Allow cutting, editing files and customizing codec, bit rate, frame rate, etc

• Step 1Add M4B files into Joyoshare Video Joiner

  In the first instance, please visit Joyoshare website to download and install a proper version of Joyoshare Video Joiner. After that, open it on your computer and touch "Open File" to upload M4B files from your local file. Or perhaps, you directly drag your recorded M4B files to the program.

  

• Step 2Choose a merging mode as you need

  Next, there is a need for you to click on "Format" to select a merging mode and pick an export format for the merged M4B file. Before choosing, you have to know that the high-speed mode is only for losslessly joining files in the same format at 60 X speed while the encoding mode can both support processing files of different formats and edit files. If you are a professional, you can still customize parameters (codec, channel, frame rate, bit rate) of the chosen output format under the encoding mode.

  

• Step 3Remove unwanted content from M4B files

  Once finished, go back to the first interface to preview each M4B file. In case you find something unpleasant when previewing, the easiest solution is moving the timeline to delete it. In addition, you also have the permission to change the name and order of your M4B audio files.

  

• Step 4Edit M4B files with encoding mode

  You choose the encoding mode to combine M4B files? Well, now you have the right to edit them. Just tap on "Edit" beside every M4B file to trim, turn up or down audio volume, add wonderful sound effects, and so on.

  

• Step 5Combine M4B files into One

  When everything gets ready, please press on "Convert" to begin to join your M4B files into a bigger one. After the completion of the consolidation process, access to a "converted" file in the local file folder to locate the new audio file.

Part 2. Merge M4B Files with Helium Audio Joiner

Helium Audio Joiner is a free and light-weight desktop joiner program that you could take to combine M4B files in a lossless way. Just as its name implies, it is developed exclusively for merging various audio tracks together. Besides working well with M4B files, it also supports AAC, FLAC, M4A, MP3, MP4, WMA, MPC, OGG Vorbis, Wave, and WAVPack. Beyond that, it provides basic editing function, which enables you to edit tag information of audio tracks and insert silence between audio files.

Step 1: After downloading and installing Helium Audio Joiner on a computer, please launch it and drag your M4B files to its interface. Alternatively, click "Add Folders" or "Add Files" to do that;

Step 2: Then, edit tag information like title, artist, album, genre, comment, etc for these M4B files. Besides, you are able to touch "Options" to insert silence between tracks and choose a temp path;

Step 3: Before hitting on "Join files" icon to combine M4B files, you need to choose an output format. If needful, configure constant bitrate and variable bitrate for the selected output format under "Encoder options".

Conclusion

Through the above content, all of you should have an overview of such two joiner software. Just in terms of combining M4B files, both of them are excellent choices. But in other respects of supported formats, sphere of application, and editing abilities, Joyoshare Video Joiner is a stroke above. Of course, which one you exactly put in use hinges on your own demand. In a word, hope this guide can benefit you greatly.