Hello Daniel, This was an excellent suggestion; one that I had considered earlier but had not yet tested.
However, upon reading your post, I did test your suggestion and am sorry to say that the results were no different from those experienced with .mp3 files. The problem is with the iBooks app, not the files, themselves. The developers must allow iBooks to display individual track titles, when provided. Both the native music and podcast apps respect such metadata. My personal opinion is that the developers probably did not take into account that people like to make their own audiobook volumes consisting of various episode titles. My hope is that, should enough people report the oversight, it will be corrected in iOS 9. Mark -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Daniel Miller Sent: Thursday, July 02, 2015 1:47 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: A Workaround FollowUp To: A Definite Step Backwards for AudioBook Listeners in iOS 8.4 iBooks Hi Mark. Can I offer another suggestion? Instead of converting the files to MP3, convert them to him for a, but change the eight to a beat. That way they'll be tagged as an audiobook, and should theoretically have your title is intact. Just a suggestion though, I'm not sure if that will work. Sent from my iPhone > On Jul 2, 2015, at 2:59 AM, M. Taylor <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hello All, > > As you may recall, I posted a message to the list discussing my dismay > at the loss of manually-created audiobook chapter heading or > individual episode title navigation as a result of Apple's decision to > move native audiobook playback from the native iOS Music app to iBooks. > > By the way, as stated in my previous post, I did submit a bug report > to Apple about this issue. > > Today, during a very pleasant phone discussion with an extremely kind > list member, who responded to my request for a Voice Dream Reader > conversation, it occurred to me that, as a workaround, instead of > tagging the .mp3 files as audiobooks, via iTunes, I could simply > change the media type to Podcast, instead. Then, after syncing my iOS > device as I would normally do, simply listen to the manually-created > audiobooks, complete with chapter heading or individual episode title > navigation intact, using the native Apple Podcast app. > > I am delighted to say that this workaround is working perfectly in iOS 8.4. > > Mark > > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On > Behalf Of M. Taylor > Sent: Tuesday, June 30, 2015 11:52 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: A Definite Step Backwards for AudioBook Listeners in iOS 8.4 > iBooks > > Hello Everyone, > > This post comes under the heading of look before you leap: > > I enjoy downloading old-time radio dramas such as the Mystery Theater > and Beyond Midnight as .mp3 files, then tagging them as Audio Books in > iTunes and then listening to them in the native iOS app. > > So, for example, I have three episodes from the Beyond Midnight radio > series. The three titles are Let me See Your Face, Fortieth Birthday, > and The Room. These are .mp3 files that, after being imported into > iTunes, I change their media type to Audio Book. Now because I have > them tagged as Beyond Midnight, under the Album field, in the Title > field, I can list the actual episode names as listed above. > > In iOS 8.3 and earlier, after syncing to my iOS device, I would then > simply select Audiobooks from within the native music app, and then I > would see Beyond Midnight listed as a single book. After > single-finger double-tapping on the title, I would then see each episode > listed by name. > > No longer. > > To my complete dismay, I now discover that in iOS 8.4, the iBooks app > does not list the individual episodes by names or chapter titles but > simply list them as tracks. > > This means that when I now select Beyond Midnight, under contents, all > I see are track 1, track 2, and track 3. > > Try as I may, I cannot figure out how to get each episode listed by > its episode title or chapter heading. > > At first, I thought this was an oversight until I did a search on > Google and discovered the following excerpt from Mac Rumors that > described this issue back near the beginning of the beta cycle: > > [Begin Excerpt] > Currently, in iOS 8.3, a users' audiobook library is divorced from > their ebook library, forcing users to use two different apps to access > their entire digital book library. The new update consolidates all > books in Apple's iBooks app and also fixes another longstanding issue > with audiobooks on iOS. Since iOS 7, audiobook listeners have been > unable to view chapter titles or even select them. However, pazimi > points out that while chapters are now selectable in iOS 8.4, they do > not list the actual chapter titles, as they're listed as "track numbers". > [End Excerpt] > > The URL for the entire article can be found at: > http://www.macrumors.com/2015/04/14/audiobooks-ios-8-4-beta/ > > This issue occurs in both iTunes 11.x and the very latest version of > iTunes 12. > > Fortunately for me, I have not yet updated my beloved 6 Plus to iOS 8.4. > Although I doubt it will make any difference to Apple, I will send a > bug report via the bug reporting portal. > > If any of you have discovered a tagging method that will allow for the > individual chapter titles to be respected in audiobooks, in the iBooks > app, please post. > > If I had updated to the latest iOS without doing some testing, over 70 > episodes of my radio dramas would have been reduced to mere track > numbers on my phone. > > In The Journey, > > Mark > > -- > The following information is important for all members of the viphone list. > All new members to the this list are moderated by default. 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