Archive of December 2009

December 19

For posterity: when Snow Leopard's "Add to iTunes as a Spoken Track" won't work

When I tried using Snow Leopard’s nifty new action “Add to iTunes as a Spoken Track” to work, I kept getting the following error in iTunes:

An error occurred while trying to import the file “Text to Speech”. The current encoder settings for bit rate and sample rate are not valid for this file.

Of course, there’s no indication of how to correct this problem. After some experimenting, I discovered that (for my computer at least) I needed to:

  1. go to iTunes Preferences > General
  2. click on the Import Settings… button
  3. select “AAC Encoder” for the Import Using option
  4. select “Spoken Podcast” for the Setting

After clicking OK and retrying the “Add to iTunes as a Spoken Track” function, it worked beautifully.

12:42 PM