Hello Brandon, As this is a rather high-traffic list, you may not have read my subsequent posts in this thread.
My solution to listening to manually created audio books in iOS 8.4 is to use the iOS native podcast app. To my complete delight, I have discovered that I prefer using the podcast app to the iOS 8.3 music app as the podcast app has a much better built-in sleep timer than the one included in the native iOS clock. The setting I have come to love is the one that stops playback at the end of an individual episode. Mark From: Brandon Butler [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Monday, July 06, 2015 6:25 AM To: [email protected] Cc: [email protected] Subject: Re: A Definite Step Backwards for AudioBook Listeners in iOS 8.4 iBooks I'm literally in the same boat. I'm so glad to find another audio drama listener ;) I've submitted a couple bug reports to Apple regarding this. One alternative is to use the Audible app to listen to audiobooks synced via iTunes instead. It's not perfect (it can't sort the titles by "sort title" metedata), but it's a step in the right direction and requires no change on your part. On Wednesday, July 1, 2015 at 2:52:17 AM UTC-4, M. Taylor wrote: 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. 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. 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 "VIPhone" 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 http://groups.google.com/group/viphone. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
