Make Your Own Yoto Cards from Library Audiobooks
Hey, how you doing today? Today I wanna show you how to take audiobooks from the library, download them, put 'em onto your yo player. Wow, several steps are required, so let's jump right in.
Yoda player is the kind of kids MP3 player, and you have the ability to make your own, cards. You can basically put whatever MP3s you want on them. here is my list of playlists of books that I've made
Most of these are actually from the library, which is awesome, and it's free. so how did I do this?
All right, so I'm gonna go to access this item on my library website.
I'm gonna click on download MP3 audiobook, which is gonna open up a link to my Overdrive app. you might have to do a little bit of digging to find that overdrive app. Now it's asking me where to download. You can see it has five different parts. We're downloading five different MP3 s ranging from about 40 minutes to 80 minutes.
Now this is way too long so we're gonna split these up into smaller tracks. You can see it's downloading here.
Now I'm gonna flip over to listen and browser, and I'm gonna use this to grab the chapter names. I'm gonna expand this a little bit and I'm gonna zoom out on my screen here and use Google Keep to extract the text from this. So I'm gonna make a couple screenshots here.
And now I'm going to copy this JU book, copy that into Google Keep, and I'm gonna get the last couple chapters here that I couldn't grab. Google Keep has a really cool feature, which is, Grab image text. Basically it grabs the text from pictures and you can see it didn't actually come in perfectly. I need each one of these to be a different line.
Okay, now this should be ready to go.
I'm gonna copy all this and I have a spreadsheet set up.
The spreadsheet is basically going to convert this into a file type that I can use to create labels for another audio software. So I'll just kind of briefly show you how that works.
Now the audio software I want to show you is called Audacity.
I'm gonna go into that folder where I downloaded those MP three s and I'm gonna just copy these in all five of them into my audacity file. This will probably take me a few seconds for them to all load up.
Okay, so now I have five mp3 s in here. I'm going to see them all. I'm gonna hit view track size, fit, height. So now you can see them all here. If I push play, they're gonna play all at the exact same time. So I wanna stack them end to end.
So I'm gonna go to select all and tracks, line. Tracks end to ends. . Now what I really wanna do is I want to export these based on labels. And so I don't have any labels in here yet, but I'm gonna use that Excel spreadsheet to make labels.
The labels wants three rows a. an end and a chapter name.
So I'm gonna copy that from Google Keep. I'm gonna right click right here, it drops these in in the right format, and these are based on seconds here.
Now, I'm gonna go to a text file. I'm gonna pace this into my text file, and then this can be imported into that audacity folder.
Let me go to that right folder. Go back to Audacity. Now I'm going to import those labels.
Now you can see I have all these labels at the bottom. This is gonna create an MP3 based on each of the chapter titles.
Okay now, so I'm gonna go to File, export, export multiple, and I'm gonna base it off the labels. I'm gonna drop it in the right folder here.
And I've chosen this to be stereo and I've changed the quality to be 65 to 105 kilobytes per second.
I use label and track name,
okay, while that's going, I am going to start by making a playlist. I'm just gonna call this the jungle look.
I'm just gonna add one track to kind of get it going here.
So now I'm gonna upload art and once you've added a track, it kind of knows which folder to go to. The really nice thing about the Overdrive app is it also brings in a couple cover pictures. Bring that one. And I really like to make the pixels, so I'm gonna go to my icons here, upload icon, and I'm gonna right click on this and go to edit.
And I'm gonna actually make this a little bit cooler, so I'm gonna make a screenshot of that right there. And I'm gonna file save this.
Call it Jungle Pixel. Load these out, and now when I pick this, we'll bring in that pixel that I just made, applied all tracks. There we go.
Okay. You can see this is May 14 tracks Instead of the five that originally had
all my 14 tracks in here, I'll often double click on them to make sure they work.
Tiger, tiger. Perfect. Close this and I'm gonna add the rest of the audio to this track.
Open the pixel, apply to all tracks.
Okay. Now that that's done, I can just create the playlist.
And now I could go onto my
app, find the playlist, link it to a make your own card, and there it goes. Now, if you wanna go next level to make some awesome little sticker labels, which I have maybe gotten a little bit into.
You can print them out.
I would highly recommend buying this printable vinyl sticker paper that's waterproof
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Thank you, such a time saver. Love the spreadsheet!
Thank you SO SO much for this. Got everything to work as explained. Your spreadsheet is much appreciated!!
Thank you SO MUCH for how amazingly helpful this video is! I just got my MYO cards and realized I had no idea how to make any of the software work to turn my MP3's into properly tracked individual files! Off to fall down the MYO rabbit hole!
@design-storm
6 ай бұрын
Thx
Amazing!! Thank you!! So helpful!
This is awesome, thank you so much for this tutorial!
@design-storm
Жыл бұрын
You’re welcome!
Overdrive: app.overdrive.com/downloads/ODMediaConsoleSetup.msi (might have to paste into browser) Audacity: www.audacityteam.org/download/windows/ Excel: docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1B_uU5E2AWwHzCbfqDbkWdm62Z2v5hNlf_Su_9T4-iN4/edit?usp=sharing
Wow this is awesome!! Thank you :)
@design-storm
Жыл бұрын
You're so welcome!
Awesome video. Thanks mate
@design-storm
10 ай бұрын
Appreciate it
How do you do the first step downloading mp3 from library? Mine only allows libby on android and ios not pc. On there it only downloads and stores within libby:(
@richardclinton8408
Ай бұрын
As far as I know you can't download from libby. What I've been doing is playing the book on my pc while having a audio recording software on my pc recording the audio. I use Goldwave but most likely any audio software will work. You just have to make sure its recording what your pc is playing not recording from microphone. This is slightly technical but it does work and is doable. The other downside is that you have to let the book play all the way through (so i do it at night when I go to bed).
This video is perfect, thanks!! I have a question: what are the excel formulas used to convert the timestamp to hh:mm:ss cells? They're copying over as date/time and a MM:SS format seems to be read as an HH:MM format...
@design-storm
Жыл бұрын
docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1B_uU5E2AWwHzCbfqDbkWdm62Z2v5hNlf_Su_9T4-iN4/edit?usp=sharing
Would you post link to spreadsheet used in your video? Awesome content!!
@design-storm
Жыл бұрын
docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1B_uU5E2AWwHzCbfqDbkWdm62Z2v5hNlf_Su_9T4-iN4/edit?usp=sharing
A great tutorial - a hiccup for me: when I download the MP3 from the library, it saves it as an .odm file. I can open that in Overdrive, but I can't find an mp3 file to drag into Audacity to edit. Where am I going wrong, or where to find the actual background mp3 files of the book to add into Audacity? Thanks!
@design-storm
6 ай бұрын
The overdrive app should print you to download some mp3s and ask you direct you where to save them! Hope you figure it out!
Hello there, first off, amazing work thank you for the tutorial! I am wondering how do i download the odm and convert it into mp3? I keep getting an error asking me to plug in my device in order for it to be converted. any help would be appreciated!
@design-storm
6 ай бұрын
You should be able to open ip the odm with the overdrive app. Scroll up for the download link
Overdrive/ Libby only permits browser streaming not mp3 downloads now, right? The pop up message says Mp3 is only available for older MacOs now. Any other workarounds?
@design-storm
11 ай бұрын
The process I showed works for pc but not for Mac. :( I think I might have a way to get it working on macs as well
How would you go about, if you downloaded a short book? how to you add that?
@design-storm
6 ай бұрын
Once you have a book, make a Yoto playlist and add the tracks to your playlist. Cheers :)
Can this be done on an iPad? So cool!
@design-storm
11 ай бұрын
The overdrive app I found only works in windows :(
I can’t find the download mp3 link from Libby- how can I do this on a Mac?
@design-storm
6 ай бұрын
Hi unfortunately it won’t work on a Mac, or Libby. this tutorial uses overdrive, which may only be available on windows
I can't find audacity or the overdrive app to download
@design-storm
Жыл бұрын
overdrive: app.overdrive.com/downloads/ODMediaConsoleSetup.msi (might have to paste into browser) audacity: www.audacityteam.org/download/windows/
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@design-storm
10 ай бұрын
Thanks?
@chronicfantastic
10 ай бұрын
Yeah mate absolutely! @@design-storm
@chronicfantastic
10 ай бұрын
I'm thinking I will get my vinyl waterproof stickers (thanks) printed from a shop, as I don't have a colour printer. Once I have the wireframes set up it should be pretty simple. Then... because there's no thing as taking a hobby too far: Stable Diffusion + Controlnet + Lora to create so sick custom label designs 🤙🤙
@design-storm
9 ай бұрын
Love it!
Just bought a Yoto min for my daughter. This is video what I need help doing -Would be fantastic if I could do what you just did... but your talking way too fast for me ha ha -and it was way over my "tech challenged Head" (older generation mind) What is "Overdrive app" what is "Google Keep" where do I get those? Audacity? Google spread-sheet. .. It seemed very complicated for someone who has no idea what these are. Can you please do a simpler video!?? PLEASE! Maybe one step at a time -using each app, for the tech challenged.
@design-storm
9 ай бұрын
Thanks! I probably wouldn’t recommend this method for the tech challenged :) a lot of steps and a lot of programs to learn. Check this link out instead docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1PFUgiixWHNhd7eZbo8GZyRUmyesCSDjhnZwrICb_phc/edit#gid=1732008221