Hello Brandon, Wow! This sounds very exciting.
I, for one, will definitely check it out and encourage others to do the same. Thank you ever so much. Mark From: Brandon Butler [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Monday, August 17, 2015 1:53 PM To: VIPhone Cc: [email protected] Subject: Re: A Definite Step Backwards for AudioBook Listeners in iOS 8.4 iBooks I ended up creating an app that solves the issue :D Check out Undulib.com for more details. Undulib is available on the Appstore now. 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. 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. Your VIPhone list owner is Cara Quinn - you can reach Cara at [email protected] 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.
