Comments on: iTunes 8 is great for audiobook lovers

By: Multi-Media Mom: Uploading Audiobooks to Your iPod

Multi-Media Mom: Uploading Audiobooks to Your iPod — Wed, 09 Jun 2010 03:30:31 +0000

[…] your audiobook folder and allow you to bookmark where you left off. (Image and this added step from Aldoblog, via […]

By: Audiobooker, by Mary Burkey – Importing audiobooks to iTunes 8

Audiobooker, by Mary Burkey – Importing audiobooks to iTunes 8 — Fri, 22 Jan 2010 10:59:56 +0000

[…] Cnet has a great post by Donald Bell “How to Create Audiobooks in iTunes” with step-by-step screen shots of the process. Michael Alderete’s Aldoblog is always a great resource for all things audiobooks, and he also has iTunes 8 tips in his post “iTunes 8 is Great for Audiobook Lovers.” […]

By: Alderete

Alderete — Sun, 05 Oct 2008 16:30:12 +0000

@KSB Snow Owl: To see the Audiobooks source list in iTunes, you need to enable it. In iTunes 8 it’s a checkbox in the General section of the preferences. Make sure it’s checked, then you’ll see it in the sidebar.

By: Alderete

Alderete — Sun, 05 Oct 2008 16:28:26 +0000

@Heather: For your order issues, see “FAQ #16”:http://aldoblog.com/audiobooks/itunes/frequently-asked-questions/#q16. For the playing back only one track at a time, generally an iPod will play all of the tracks in the list that was showing when you started playback. But the behavior varies across models and software versions. The surest way to solve both of these issues at once is to create a playlist with your audiobook’s tracks, in the right order, and then use the playlist to start playback. You should be able to listen to the book in order with no problems then.

Alternatively, you might want to merge the tracks, and create a 1-2 track audiobook, which will avoid all of the iPod’s playback quirks. See “How to join multiple tracks into a single audiobook file”:http://aldoblog.com/2008/01/how-to-join-multiple-tracks-into-a-single-audiobook-file/ which describes tools for both Windows and Mac for accomplishing this task.

By: Alderete

Alderete — Sun, 05 Oct 2008 16:23:28 +0000

@foamy: You want to review this article: “Managing audiobooks on a small-capacity iPod”:http://aldoblog.com/2008/02/managing-audiobooks-on-ipod-or-iphone/, which describes exactly the task you want.

By: Alderete

Alderete — Sun, 05 Oct 2008 16:16:16 +0000

@Lynne: It sounds like you might want to review my “instructions for importing audiobooks from standard audio CDs”:http://aldoblog.com/audiobooks/itunes/importing-audio-cds/, which describes the process used to join together CD tracks, so you don’t end up with hundreds, but as few as one per CD. You can also check out the article I reference above, which describes tools that will let you merge your tracks even further (most of my audiobooks are one or two tracks, with chapter marks).

By: Alderete

Alderete — Sun, 05 Oct 2008 15:55:32 +0000

@liam: Selecting “Audiobook” doesn’t merge tracks together, though it may cause your iPod or iPhone to treat the tracks differently when in list views — but only if you’ve correctly set your metadata for all tracks.

Selecting “Audiobook” automatically checks the “Remember” and “Skip” options, and also disables those options (grays them out). These settings are automatic and not optional for audiobooks.

As for “all under one book,” you’ll want to check this post out: “How to join multiple tracks into a single audiobook file”:http://aldoblog.com/2008/01/how-to-join-multiple-tracks-into-a-single-audiobook-file/

By: liam

liam — Sun, 05 Oct 2008 01:11:46 +0000

Oh, and also ….

Each disc is showing up as another book. Is there a way to get these all under one book? When I’ve purchased books from Apple, this is fine. When loading a 7 CD book, it shows up as 7 books. I can get through this, but it’s clumsy and I feel sure there’s a workaround for this problem?

By: liam

liam — Sun, 05 Oct 2008 01:07:58 +0000

This website was very helpful to me, thank you!

Coupla questions about doing this with iTunes 8:

Should you still “Join CD Tracks?” Or does selecting “Audiobook” as Media take care of this too?

And while I still see in Get Info: “Remember Playback Position” and “Skip When Shuffling,” I assume that the fact that it’s now in Audiobooks means that these checkboxes would be redundant. Am I right?

Thanks!!

Liam K

By: KSB Snow Owl

KSB Snow Owl — Wed, 01 Oct 2008 20:37:06 +0000

So, I just did what was mentioned in the main article, and it did transfer the one audio book I’ve got (ripped from CD) to an audiobook, but now I cannot find it within iTunes. There is no “Audiobook” section in the library, and I cannot find it under music. How can I find it within iTunes so I can work at renaming the tracks? Currently, all my tracks are in order, but all are listed as their track number on their individual CD’s (ie – “3 of 286” is the title of track 3 from the first disc, and the second disc, and the third, etc.) There are 286 total tracks.