For various reasons, I leave my CD audiobooks in my Music library. I don’t mind too terribly.
The biggest reason that putting CD rips into the Audiobooks folder doesn’t work is that iTunes is not so great at supporting any book bigger than one track. In particular, iTunes plays alphabetically by name all tracks, irrespective of the books from which they came. So you could listen to Track01 of book 1, and then Track01 of book 2. If you want these books in your Audiobooks folder, you will have to join tracks together first, or manually enter sort data in each track to prevent that from happening—an arduous and annoying task. I don’t want to ruin my rips, though, so I simply leave them in their respective albums in Music. Bonus: iTunes Match works with them. Use Get Info, as Andrew described, to ensure Audiobook tracks remember position, do not get played when shuffling, and you really can’t tell the difference. If you insist on making working, bookmarkable audiobooks with chapters and everything, use a tool like AudioBook Builder. Take your rips, and bundle them up together in M4B files. Now, drop them in iTunes, and suddenly, you have Audiobooks that are properly supported, just like Audible. Wicked. -- The following information is important for all members of the Mac Visionaries list. If you have any questions or concerns about the running of this list, or if you feel that a member's post is inappropriate, please contact the owners or moderators directly rather than posting on the list itself. Your Mac Visionaries list moderator is Mark Taylor and your owner is Cara Quinn - you can reach Cara at [email protected] The archives for this list can be searched at: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
