The main difference between the way Windows handles files (media files particularly) and the way Mac OS (and other Apple products) handles files is metadata. Windows relies largely on their customers with media files to organize them via a directory structure and to play them or add them to a playlist manually. Keep in mind that this is generally speaking. Apple, on the other hand, does all of this "tech" stuff behind the scenes and organizes your files for you based on their metadata tags. In a perfect world, everyone with a Mac computer would be using iTunes for the downloading of their music, books, movies, etc. In this way, everything would work...all the time. ON the Windows side, people may have five different media players for various types of files and it's better to group things by directory. When beginning to use an Apple product, some less-than desirable things may occur. The windows user neglects the tagging of their files. Now we all know that audiobooks downloaded from Audible are already tagged brilliantly, and music from the iTunes store is likewise tagged perfectly. But, it being the twenty-first century where data dissemination is the way of life, there are...other sources of obtaining movies and music--and some of these bits of digital entertainment may lack some critical bits of metadata that make iTunes properly sort it. So, instead of making sure that all your mp3 audiobook titles are properly numbered and named before copying and pasting them over to your Rockbox-enabled device for playing, you now have to neglect the file names and pay closer attention to the tags associated with your files. If you import all your stuff directly into iTunes, then you can tag it properly with "Get Info". Chris (and others), I'm willing to bet that the majority of iPod audiobook-related issues are metadata-based, as I had similar problems when I first obtained an IOS device. It's not that hard of a switch, and, quite frankly, it is a more organized and secure system than maintaining files in structured directories--some people dislike the amount of control Apple seems to exert on their end-users and site that as one of their reasons for their continuing reluctance to switch, but it is merely Apple trying to lighten the load of excessive administrative tasks so their customers can focus on getting the important work done. I would much rather finish something important than remember to defragment my hard drive; or record a song instead of allocating my time to cleaning out the registry of old programs; do research rather than get stuck with the daunting task of maintaining a meticulously user-organized list of files and folders so that my handful of media players can use them. Anyway I apologize for the lack of brevity in this email--that's my thesis for the evening:) I hope I have provided some insight, at the very least. Smilingly:) Robert Hooper [email protected]
-----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Chris Harrington Sent: Wednesday, October 27, 2010 8:00 PM To: [email protected] Subject: RE: MP3 Books on the iPod Touch and iTunes I still haven't mastered this fine art of doing mp3 books on the apple devices. Maybe some listers with more extensive knowledge of such could help? Thanks!!! Chris Harrington http://www.c-harrington.com -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Robert Hooper Sent: Wednesday, October 27, 2010 7:51 PM To: [email protected] Subject: RE: MP3 Books on the iPod Touch and iTunes If the iPod touch recognizes the file(s) you are playing as an audiobook, then there is an option to do this. In the now playing screen, there is a button entitled "playback speed". By default, it is set to normal and will inform you of such. Double-tapping this button will set it to double, double-tapping it again will cut the speed to half the original, and double-tapping it yet again will return it to normal. I hope this in some way helps nudge you along the pathway of success! Robert Hooper [email protected] -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Courtney Curran Sent: Wednesday, October 27, 2010 7:37 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: MP3 Books on the iPod Touch and iTunes Hi, While we're on this topic, can you play audiobooks at double speed on the Ipod Touch, if so, how? Courtney Listen to The Wonderful World of Doo-wop with me, Moopie Curran on Fridays at 08:00 UTC on http://www.theglobalvoice.info On Oct 27, 2010, at 7:33 PM, Kimberly thurman wrote: > And just how should I edit the tag information? I changed the genre > to audiobook in two different places under get info. Why do the files then end up out of order even when they are numbered files and the numbers are in the file names. > On Oct 27, 2010, at 4:12 PM, Joshua Loya wrote: > >> It doesn't have anything to do with the new version of iTunes. Make >> sure that you have correctly edited the tag information of the files. Sometimes it can be a bit tedious, but if you're not going to convert the files to .m4b, double checking the tag information is your best bet. >> >> Hope that helps, >> Joshua >> On Oct 27, 2010, at 9:21 AM, Kimberly thurman wrote: >> >>> HI Folks: >>> >>> We have discussed this here before, but I'm having some issues with it. I want to play a folder of MP3 files, which are ripped from CD audiobooks on my iPod. I know that I must add the files to my iTunes library. I thin find them in iTunes, select them all, and do VO/shift/M and chose get info. In there I change the genre to audiobook and then go to the options tab and change it to audiobook there as well. I choose not to include while shuffling. The book then shows up in the books portion of iTunes, but the title became Unknown and the MP3 files were all in the wrong order. >>> >>> What am I doing wrong here? Does it have something to do with the >>> new version of iTunes? What are the check boxes for that are now present just before the track titles? >>> >>> TIA for any help here. I really want to play these books on my >>> Touch, but it is a pain when they are out of order. 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