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Okay, I'll keep looking about. Learnt a bit already, anyway. Haven't done so well with the @Jason Byrne method of pacing though. So far I've got twenty minutes of Schindler's List soundtrack, buffered with Rage Against the Machine on a loop :)
Here's an example of what I was talking about — CD 1 of 3, for book 1. Most of the books yield 3 CDs of music; some of them yield only 2.
 

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Oh! As to whether I sync the music to the audiobook — no. A three-minute song, what would be thee minutes of run time in a movie, takes ten minutes to read aloud. A normal movie soundtrack is about 80 minutes. I usually end up with about 350 minutes of songs, but the audiobook would run about 13 hours total. I'll just put the pertinent track on repeat, when I'm writing that scene, to help set the mood.
 
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