Hi,
Audible access is similarly restricted under Front Row. Although the
titles can be displayed, the actual Audible files can't be played.
However, you can play audiobooks from the iTunes Store or .m4b titles
that you rip from CDs in Front Row. (Try this with Command-Escape to
start up Front Row if you don't have an Apple Remote. Use arrow keys
to move up and down through menu selections, the return key to make
selections, and the Escape key to move back up through the menu
levels). I was originally going to suggest that people wanting to
practice accessing iPod menus (before the iPod Nano 4G with Spoken
Menus came out) try using Front Row's navigation. But then I found
that the Audible audiobooks were handled differently and wouldn't play.
I'd guess that audiobooks now filed in the Audiobooks part of the
library by changing "Media Kind" from "Music" to "Audiobook" under the
Options tab when you do Get Info (Command-I) might get displayed in
shared libraries, but I haven't tried checking this. The "Media Kind"
option is a new iTunes 8 feature.
Cheers,
Esther
On Nov 16, 2008, at 8:02 AM, Jacob Schmude wrote:
Audio books, i.e. those in Audible or m4b format, are not visible
over a shared library. I've no idea why Apple did this, but the
iTunes help on shared libraries is explicit that these are not shared.
On Nov 15, 2008, at 23:25, Alex Jurgensen wrote:
Hi,
Odd. I have shared libraries for a long time and never had this
issue. *Alex hits himself on the head*, who of course, mybe not all
you playlists are shared. ITunes eight has a feature for this in
the Sharing pane of Preferences.
Thanks for listening,
Alex,
On 15-Nov-08, at 7:23 PM, Jane Jordan (Gmail) wrote:
I've expanded the Shared Library, and there's no playlist for
Audio Books--that's the weird thing. I know it's there, because
it's visible when I am on the iMac, but I can't seem to get at it
from here. Every other list but that one., Very, very odd. Good
thing I made playlists of the books I listen to most frequently, I
guess ... But there are some books that are stand-alones and
don't belongin a playlist of just one. :)
Jane
