diff --git a/AAXtoMP3 b/AAXtoMP3
index 0f04bc0..e5840fd 100755
--- a/AAXtoMP3
+++ b/AAXtoMP3
@@ -610,7 +610,7 @@ do
 
   # Display the total length of the audiobook in format hh:mm:ss
   # 10#$var force base-10 interpretation. By default it's base-8, so values like 08 or 09 are not octal numbers
-  total_length="$(ffprobe -v error -activation_bytes "${auth_code}" -show_entries format=duration -of default=noprint_wrappers=1:nokey=1 ${aax_file} | cut -d . -f 1)"
+  total_length="$(ffprobe -v error -activation_bytes "${auth_code}" -show_entries format=duration -of default=noprint_wrappers=1:nokey=1 "${aax_file}" | cut -d . -f 1)"
   hours="$((total_length/3600))"
   if [ "$((hours<10))" = "1" ]; then hours="0$hours"; fi
   minutes="$((total_length/60-60*10#$hours))"
@@ -681,11 +681,10 @@ do
       </dev/null ffmpeg -loglevel error -activation_bytes "${auth_code}" -i "${aax_file}" -an -codec:v copy "${cover_file}"
     fi
   fi
+
   # -----
-  # OK now spit the file if that's what you want.
-  # If we want multiple file we take the big mp3 and split it by chapter.
-  # Not all audio encodings make sense with multiple chapter outputs.  See options section
-  # for more detail
+  # If mode=chaptered, split the big converted file by chapter and remove it afterwards.
+  # Not all audio encodings make sense with multiple chapter outputs (see options section)
   if [ "${mode}" == "chaptered" ]; then
     # Playlist m3u support
     playlist_file="${output_directory}/${currentFileNameScheme}.m3u"
@@ -755,6 +754,17 @@ do
           chapter_codec="copy"
         fi
 
+        #Since there seems to be a bug in some older versions of ffmpeg, which makes, that -ss and -to
+        #have to be apllied to the output file, this makes, that -ss and -to get applied on the input for
+        #ffmpeg version 4+ and on the output for all older versions.
+        split_input=""
+        split_output=""
+        if [ "$(($(ffmpeg -version | $SED -E 's/[^0-9]*([0-9]).*/\1/g;1q') > 3))" = "1" ]; then
+          split_input="-ss ${chapter_start%?} -to ${chapter_end}"
+        else
+          split_output="-ss ${chapter_start%?} -to ${chapter_end}"
+        fi
+
         # Big Long chapter debug
         debug_vars "Chapter Variables:" cover_file chapter_start chapter_end chapternum chapter chapterNameScheme chapter_title chapter_file
         if [ "$((${continueAt} > ${chapternum}))" = "0" ]; then
@@ -765,11 +775,11 @@ do
           fi
           </dev/null ffmpeg -loglevel quiet \
             -nostats \
-            -ss "${chapter_start%?}" \
-            -to "${chapter_end}" \
+            ${split_input} \
             -i "${output_file}" \
             -i "${cover_file}" \
             ${extra_crop_cover} \
+            ${split_output} \
             -map 0:0 \
             -map 1:0 \
             -acodec ${chapter_codec} \
@@ -809,7 +819,7 @@ do
     # ----
     # ffmpeg seems to copy only chapter position, not chapter names.
     if [[ ${container} == "mp4" && $(type -P mp4chaps) ]]; then
-      ffprobe -i "${aax_file}" -print_format csv -show_chapters 2>/dev/null | awk -F "," '{printf "CHAPTER%02d=%02d:%02d:%02.3f\nCHAPTER%02dNAME=%s\n", NR, $5/60/60, $5/60%60, $5%60, NR, $8}' > "${output_directory}/${fileNameScheme}.chapters.txt"
+      ffprobe -i "${aax_file}" -print_format csv -show_chapters 2>/dev/null | awk -F "," '{printf "CHAPTER%02d=%02d:%02d:%02.3f\nCHAPTER%02dNAME=%s\n", NR, $5/60/60, $5/60%60, $5%60, NR, $8}' > "${output_directory}/${currentFileNameScheme}.chapters.txt"
       mp4chaps -i "${output_file}"
     fi
   fi
diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index bf8e933..e6ffbd9 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -32,10 +32,14 @@ Thanks to kbabioch, this script has also been packaged in the [AUR](https://aur.
 ```
 bash AAXtoMP3 [-f|--flac] [-o|--opus] [-a|-aac] [-s|--single] [--level <COMPRESSIONLEVEL>] [-c|--chaptered] [-e:mp3] [-e:m4a] [-e:m4b] [-A|--authcode <AUTHCODE>] [-n|--no-clobber] [-t|--target_dir <PATH>] [-C|--complete_dir <PATH>] [-V|--validate] [-d|--debug] [-h|--help] [--continue <CHAPTERNUMBER>] <AAX INPUT_FILES>...
 ```
+or if you want to get guided through the options
+```
+bash interactiveAAXtoMP3 [-a|--advanced] [-h|--help]
+```
 
 * **&lt;AAX INPUT_FILES&gt;**... are considered input file(s), useful for batching!
 
-## Options
+## Options for AAXtoMP3
 * **-f** or **--flac**   Flac Encoding and as default produces a single file.
 * **-o** or **--opus**   Ogg/Opus Encoding defaults to multiple file output by chapter. The extension is .ogg
 * **-a** or **--aac**    AAC Encoding and produce a m4a single files output.
@@ -59,6 +63,12 @@ bash AAXtoMP3 [-f|--flac] [-o|--opus] [-a|-aac] [-s|--single] [--level <COMPRESS
 * **--chapter-naming-scheme &lt;STRING&gt;**  Use a custom chapter naming scheme, with variables. See [below](#custom-naming-scheme) for more info.
 * **--use-audible-cli-data** Use additional data got with mkb79/audible-cli. See [below](#audible-cli-integration) for more infos.
 
+## Options for interactiveAAXtoMP3
+* **-a** or **--advanced** Get more options to choose. Not used right now.
+* **-h** or **--help** Get a help prompt.
+This script presents you the options you chose last time as default.
+When you get asked for the aax-file you may just drag'n'drop it to the terminal.
+
 ### [AUTHCODE]
 **Your** Audible auth code (it won't correctly decode otherwise) (required).
 
diff --git a/interactiveAAXtoMP3 b/interactiveAAXtoMP3
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..f3e4223
--- /dev/null
+++ b/interactiveAAXtoMP3
@@ -0,0 +1,159 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env bash
+
+# ===Note for contributors========================================================================================================================
+
+# This script interactively asks the user for the options to call AAXtoMP3 with. This first version does not include all options of AAXtoMP3
+# since I tried to keep the dialog short, but I added an --advanced option, which is unused right now, but might be used in the future to add
+# more options which only show up if explicitely wanted.
+# If you want to add functionality please consider, whether the functionality you add might belong to the advanced options.
+
+# ===Variables====================================================================================================================================
+
+# Help message
+help=$'\nUsage: interactiveAAXtoMP3 [--advanced] [--help]\n
+--advanced	More options
+--help		Print this message\n'
+summary=""         # This will contain a summary of the options allready set.
+call="./AAXtoMP3"  # This will contain the call for AAXtoMP3.
+advanced=0         # Toggles advanced options on or off.
+
+# ===Options======================================================================================================================================
+
+while true; do
+  case "$1" in
+                     # Advanced options.
+    -a | --advanced  ) advanced=1;      shift ;;
+                     # Command synopsis.
+    -h | --help      ) echo -e "$help"; exit ;;
+                     # Anything else stops command line processing.
+    *                )                  break ;;
+  esac
+done
+
+# ===Cross platform compatible use grep and sed===================================================================================================
+
+# ===Detect which annoying version of grep we have===
+GREP=$(grep --version | grep -q GNU && echo "grep" || echo "ggrep")
+if ! [[ $(type -P "$GREP") ]]; then
+  echo "$GREP (GNU grep) is not in your PATH"
+  echo "Without it, this script will break."
+  echo "On macOS, you may want to try: brew install grep"
+  exit 1
+fi
+
+# ===Detect which annoying version of sed we have===
+SED=$(sed --version 2>&1 | $GREP -q GNU && echo "sed" || echo "gsed")
+if ! [[ $(type -P "$SED") ]]; then
+  echo "$SED (GNU sed) is not in your PATH"
+  echo "Without it, this script will break."
+  echo "On macOS, you may want to try: brew install gnu-sed"
+  exit 1
+fi
+
+# ===Get options from last time===================================================================================================================
+
+# ===Set default values===
+lastcodec="mp3"
+lastcompression="4"
+lastchapters="yes"
+lastauthcode=""
+lastloglevel="1"
+
+# ===Get Values from last time===
+if [ -f ".interactivesave" ]; then
+  for ((i=1;i<=$(wc -l .interactivesave | cut -d " " -f 1);i++)) do
+    line=$(head -$i .interactivesave | tail -1)
+    case $(echo $line | cut -d " " -f 1 | $SED 's/.$//') in
+      codec        ) lastcodec="$(echo $line | cut -d " " -f 2)";;
+      compression  ) lastcompression="$(echo $line | cut -d " " -f 2)";;
+      chapters     ) lastchapters="$(echo $line | cut -d " " -f 2)";;
+      authcode     ) lastauthcode="$(echo $line | cut -d " " -f 2)";;
+      loglevel     ) lastloglevel="$(echo $line | cut -d " " -f 2)";;
+      *            ) rm .interactivesave; exit 1;;
+    esac
+  done
+fi
+
+# ===Get options for AAXtoMP3=====================================================================================================================
+
+# ===Codec===
+while true; do
+  clear;
+  read -e -p "codec (mp3/m4a/m4b/flac/aac/opus): " -i "$lastcodec" codec
+  case "$codec" in
+    mp3   ) summary="$summary""codec: $codec"; call="$call -e:mp3"; break;;
+    m4a   ) summary="$summary""codec: $codec"; call="$call -e:m4a"; break;;
+    m4b   ) summary="$summary""codec: $codec"; call="$call -e:m4b"; break;;
+    flac  ) summary="$summary""codec: $codec"; call="$call --flac"; break;;
+    aac   ) summary="$summary""codec: $codec"; call="$call --aac";  break;;
+    opus  ) summary="$summary""codec: $codec"; call="$call --opus"; break;;
+  esac
+done
+
+# ===Compression===
+while true; do
+  clear; echo -e "$summary"
+  case "$codec" in
+    mp3   ) maxlevel=9;;
+    flac  ) maxlevel=12;;
+    opus  ) maxlevel=10;;
+    *     ) break;;
+  esac
+  read -e -p "compression level (0-$maxlevel): " -i "$lastcompression" compression
+  if [[ $compression =~ ^[0-9]+$ ]] && [[ "$compression" -ge "0" ]] && [[ "$compression" -le "$maxlevel" ]]; then
+    summary="$summary""\ncompression level: $compression"
+    call="$call --level $compression"
+    break
+  fi
+done
+
+# ===Chapters===
+while true; do
+  clear; echo -e "$summary"
+  read -e -p "chapters (yes/no/chapternumber to continue with): " -i "$lastchapters" chapters
+  case "$chapters" in
+    ^[0-9]+$  ) summary="$summary""\nchapters: $chapters"; call="$call -c --continue ${chapters}"; break;;
+    yes       ) summary="$summary""\nchapters: $chapters"; call="$call -c"; break;;
+    no        ) summary="$summary""\nchapters: $chapters"; call="$call -s"; break;;
+  esac
+done
+
+# ===Authcode===
+if ! [ -r .authcode ] || [ -r ~/.authcode ]; then
+  clear; echo -e "$summary"
+  read -e -p "Authcode: " -i "$lastauthcode" authcode
+  summary="$summary""\nauthcode: $authcode"
+  call="$call -A $authcode"
+fi
+
+# ===Loglevel===
+while true; do
+  clear; echo -e "$summary"
+  read -e -p "loglevel (0/1/2/3): " -i "$lastloglevel" loglevel
+  if [[ $loglevel =~ ^[0-9]+$ ]] && [[ "$loglevel" -ge "0" ]] && [[ "$loglevel" -le "3" ]]; then
+    summary="$summary""\nloglevel: $loglevel"
+    call="$call -l $loglevel"
+    break
+  fi
+done
+
+# ===File===
+clear; echo -e "$summary"
+read -p "aax-file: " file
+file="${file%\'}" #remove suffix ' if file is given via drag'n'drop
+file="${file#\'}" #remove prefix ' if file is given via drag'n'drop
+savefile="$summary"
+summary="$summary""\naax-file: $file"
+call="$call $(echo $file | $SED "s;~;$HOME;")"
+
+# ===Summerize chosen options and call AAXtoMP3===================================================================================================
+
+# ===Summary===
+clear; echo -e "$summary\n"
+echo -e "$call\n"
+
+# ===Save chosen options===
+echo -e $savefile | $SED "s;\ level:;:;" > .interactivesave
+
+# ===Call AAXtoMP3===
+$call