thank you, thank you very much. I'll give it a try. :) On May 17, 2010, at 10:35 AM, Esther wrote:
> Hi Christina, >> You wrote: >> >>> I cannot get an audio book to show up in my books of my itunes library. I >>> ripped a CD that came with a book and it's an audiobook of the book. >>> itunes categorized it as music and therefore shows up in my music folder. >>> I have tried selecting all of the tracks at once and then going into info >>> and selecting it as a audiobook but it won't show up in my books folder. > > It sounds as though you're almost there. Make sure that when you do Get Info > (Command-I) that you use the Options tab to change the Media Kind pop up to > Audiobook -- changing the genre on the Info tab won't help here. I'll paste > in the instructions. > >> 1. Select the files of the audiobook in the Songs table. >> 2. Press Command-I to open the Get Info dialog box. >> 3. Select the Options tab. >> 4. Change the media kind to Audiobook. >> 5. Check the option for "Remember playback position" >> 6. Check the option for "Skip when shuffling" >> >> You can select and process multiple files at once. Changing the media >> kind from "Music" to "Audiobook" will make the files show up under >> Audiobooks instead of Music, but it will not keep track of your last >> played position. So if you start listening to your Audiobook again, >> you will start at the beginning. Checking the option to "Remember >> playback position" turns on bookmarking behavior so that your play >> resumes where you left off. Incidentally, if you sync audiobooks, and >> listen to the same tracks alternately between iTunes on your computer >> and on your iPhone or iPod, the bookmarked position will advance to >> the furthest point on either, so you can seamlessly continue your >> listening regardless of whether you are using your iPhone or iTunes on >> your computer. Checking "Skip when shuffling" will keep audiobooks >> out of any "shuffle play" playlist options so you don't hear a chapter >> from a book in the middle of a song list. > > A few other suggestions: as Matthew and Philippe have suggested, there are > programs for joining tracks and easily importing CDs as audiobooks. I'll give > you the links. > • Audio Bookbinder > http://bluezbox.com/audiobookbinder.html > • Audiobook Maker > http://audiobookmaker.sourceforge.net/ > Both of those are freeware. Another package that is popular is Splasm's > Audiobook Builder ($9.95): > http://www.apple.com/downloads/macosx/ipod_itunes/audiobookbuilder.html > > If you import tracks yourself from CD using iTunes, you can join all the > tracks on the CD into a single track at the time of importing. To join > tracks, when the disc is inserted and selected in the sources table, navigate > to songs table (e.g, stop interacting with the sources table and VO-Right > Arrow or tab to the songs table, or just use VO-J to immediately jump to the > songs table without having to stop interacting). Select all tracks with > Command-A, then join the tracks by navigating to the iTunes menu bar (VO-M), > then press "A" to go to the "Advanced" menu, arrow down and press "J" to go > to the "Join Tracks" option and press return. Now when you import your CD it > will do this as a single file. You can select any of these joined tracks and > make them show up as audiobooks using the instructions given above. > > HTH. Cheers, > > Esther > > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "MacVisionaries" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en.
