Hi Esther,
I think I'm almost there. Thanks for your clear explanation. A few questions
though.
My audio books come in numbered mp3 files and I'd like to have them with me
on the iphone. Does itunes take into account the filename when it imports
files into itunes? Of course, for an audiobook, the order in which the files
are played is important.
Do I need to add all, say, 402 mp3 files to one single playlist that has the
name of the book? I'm not sure on how to do this. I was used to organizing
everything in folder trees and neatly named files. Itunes is different,
because I never cared about the mp3 tags, but now I will have to learn what
to do instead. Given 402 consecutive files that I want to have in one
audiobook on the iphone, allowing me to resume, how do I go about then? I'll
tell you what I think I should do. Please correct me if you see a mistake.
At a certain point I get stuck. You'll see.
1. Given my directory full of files, nicely numbered, I first use a utility
to make the track number field of the mp3 tags inside all files reflect its
filename, so that 001.mp3 gets 001 in its mp3 track tag field. Is this
necessary?
2. I would then open itunes and press command plus o to add stuff to my
library.
3. Then I would be in the dialog where you have the choose button, and from
the list of files, I would navigate until I am in the folder where all 402
mp3 files making up my book are stored. One folder up is command up, and
descend down into a folder is command plus down. Correct, or is there an
easier way? Of course I could turn quicknav off and arrow up down left
right.
4. I then select all files using command plus a and I press the choose
button.
5. Next, I try to find all the new files in my music library. Do I create a
playlist here? Then what do I do? From here I'm stuck. Very interested to
know about this.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Esther" <[email protected]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Wednesday, September 08, 2010 2:11 PM
Subject: Re: itunes and file tagging
Hi Paul,
The genre field of track in iTunes can be set to anything, and does not
determine whether a file appears in music, photos, ring tones, etc. A
file will show up as a ring tone if and only if it is basically one of
Apple's AAC files (usually with .m4a extension, if this started as a
music file), is under 40 seconds in length, and has a .m4r file
extension. If you clip an AAC music file to under 40 seconds in length,
rename the file extension from .m4a to .m4r, and import it into iTunes,
it will automatically show up under ring tones. For audiobooks, mp3 or
AAC files in your music library can be placed in this playlist if you
select these tracks, do a "Get Info" with Command-I, then navigate to the
"Options" tab and press the pop up menu button for "Media Kind" with
VO-Space, then arrow down to change it from "Music" to "Audiobook". To
put tracks in to the podcasts playlist, change the "Media Kind" to
"Podcast". You might also want to check the boxes for "Remember playback
position" and "Skip when shuffling" if you want these tracks to bookmark
and be kept out any shuffled playlists you create. (If your podcast is a
music podcast, you might not want to check these boxes.) The first
checkbox lets you resume your listening at the point you left off. If it
is not checked, your tracks will always start playing from the beginning
(even if they are placed in the audiobook or podcast playlist because you
changed the "Media Kind"). The second checkbox keeps the tracks from
appearing in shuffled playlists which would otherwise sample your whole
library. It can be disconcerting to listen to shuffled music selections,
and suddenly have a track from an audiobook show up <smile>.
You can select multiple tracks at once to change "Media Kind" on the
Options tab with Command-I. You'll simply be asked by iTunes whether you
are sure you want to edit multiple tracks. Once you change the media
kind of a track that is initially in your music library, upon exiting
"Get Info", the track will disappear from the music playlist and reappear
under Books or Podcasts.
HTH. Cheers,
Esther
On Sep 8, 2010, at 00:38, Paul Erkens wrote:
Hi list,
When importing files into itunes, I suspect that the genre field in the
mp3 tag determines in which playlist (music, photos, ring tones etc),
the imported file is going to appear.
For example, a tag that itunes does not know about, will place its file
in music. If you set the genre tag of a file to podcast, it might appear
in podcasts instead of in music.
Does any of you know about a list of tags to which itunes
normally responds?
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