The reason you can't play Audible books in front row is that Quicktime
does not support them. Front row uses Quicktime as its backend, just
as iTunes does. However, the support for Audible books is an iTunes-
only feature, it does not use Quicktime for this and Quicktime has no
support for it. It's annoying but at least there's a logical reason
for this. This is in contrast to front row in Tiger, which did use
iTunes and not Quicktime as its backend for music playback. Audible
books could be played in Tiger's front row.
On Nov 16, 2008, at 13:23, Esther wrote:
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
