Technical support, anyone?

Bit of advice, please - how do people go about converting a billion MP3 tracks from an audiobook to a single M4A track on a Mac? I've tried about fifteen (seriously) different programs, all of which stop working at the critical stage, which is getting absolutely ridiculous. (The program Max, for instance, won't let me click the Setup Output Formats button. This is getting silly.)

And let's assume, for the sake of argument, that I can't use iTunes for this, because iTunes and I are Not Getting Along.

Thanks muchly - I got Hugh Laurie reading "Great Expectations" for Christmas and still haven't been able to listen to it, because iTunes won't let me import the .mp3 files.

Sapphire and Steel Squee (now with added alliteration!)

(First off, I'd like to accept the Terrible Flister award once again, to apologise to everyone whose comments/posts are sitting without replies, and to thank my apartment-hunting for being so kind as to monopolise my time and spicy brains. Next week will be full of catching up, and all the people who only know me from the Classic Who Friending Meme may actually discover that I'm not such a terrible commenter most of the time!)

Well, I finished all of the Sapphire and Steel TV show last night, and started in with the first two Big Finish audios today - I was a little bit worried they'd screw something up, because it's such a wonky and half-glimpsed canon to have to play with... but come on, you guys. It's Big Finish, after all - it's absolutely marvellous.

( Here's why - with spoilers for everything up to and including Daisy Chain. )

In other words, hooray Big Finish!

(And ohmigoodness Mark Gatiss was wonderful as Gold. Eee!)

Yes. Er. I still really want to write some sort of epic crossover fic with Doctor Who, because it just works, especially right after the Time War - timelines ripped asunder, time sneaking in everywhere, Sapphire and Steel have been assigned, etc. - and particularly since the Doctor generally seems to view Time as a sort of ally, whereas Time is unquestionably the enemy in Sapphire and Steel. It could be wacky! I'm not touching anything longer than drabbles until after I've finished the audios, though, because canon is so sparse that I wouldn't want to miss a thing.

(That said - any fanfic recs for this fandom? I get the impression I'm gonna be insanely picky, but it'd be nice to have something to read once I finish the audios.)

Also, hey! Check out loves_them_all's companion posting month! Happy meta/recs/rambles for all!

Doctor Who | As a Picture

Title: As a Picture
Author: eponymous_rose
Word Count: 890
Rating: G
Characters: Mike Yates, Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart
Spoilers: References to The Green Death and set shortly after Invasion of the Dinosaurs.
Author's Note: My parents' terrible internet gave up the ghost last night, alas!

( A quiet war in the sitting room; Mike and the Brigadier discuss clichés. )