We just wrapped up an absolutely incredible LDS General Conference last weekend. The problem was that I missed most of it because I was busy with work.

For those unfamiliar, General Conference is a twice yearly, weekend conference where leaders from The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints give teaching and counsel to church members worldwide. Over a two day period, there are a total of five, two hour sessions.

Thanks goodness for modern technology. Within mere hours of the original session broadcast, audio of the broadcast is available for download in mp3 format at http://lds.org & http://new.lds.org.

That in itself is a huge blessing! I however, would like to show you how you can add more value to this kind of audio.

My big tip? Convert the audio to audiobook format.

Whereas we are an iPhone/iPod household,I will explain how to do this using iTunes. This conversion may work for other devices that support the audiobook format, I just don't have a method of verifying it.

There are three primary benefits of playing an audiobook formatted audio on your iPhone/iPod:

1.  You can play the audio at normal, half or double speeds.
2.  You can rewind in 30 second intervals at the tap of your screen.
3.  Your device will always remember where you left off if you weren't able to finish a track.

HOW TO CONVERT YOUR AUDIO TO AN AUDIOBOOK

1.  Import your audio into your iTunes library. On your Mac, this is as easy as dragging and dropping your audio files from Finder to the iTunes window.

2.  Make sure your tracks are numbered in a proper sequential format. If you have less than 99 tracks, make sure the first nine have a track format of 01, 02, 03 etc. Otherwise it could play like: 1, 10, 11, 12 etc. You can change a track's number by secondary clicking on the file in iTunes, select Get Info then go to the Info tab.

As a side note, Conferrence audio is tracked like 1001, 1002... Where the first number indicates the session. This will work fine as well.

3.  Once your track numbering is in order, simply select all of your audio tracks in iTunes, secondary click them and select Get Info. Go to the Options tab then change the Media Kind to audiobook.

Now when you import your new audiobook to your iPhone/iPod, you will be able to enjoy some added-value listening!