Hello Everyone, A few weeks ago I asked about using the Audible app to play Audible books already purchased directly from iTunes.
The reason why I posted this question is that, in the beginning, before there was a VoiceOver accessible Audible app, many people, myself included, purchased audio books directly from the iTunes store. These books were made available to Apple via Audible. As a result, I own many Audible-provided audio books that I purchased through iTunes and that I enjoy either on my computer or in the iBooks app. Now, even though the Audible-provided iTunes titles play just fine in iBooks, it is not possible to navigate them by chapter headings nor can one insert bookmarks using the iBooks app. As the now voiceover accessible Audible app provides chapter navigation and supports bookmarks, my original question was to learn if the Audible app would treat the iTunes purchased titles the same way it does those purchased directly from the Audible website. I now have my answer, said answer consisting of the following: 1. The titles purchased directly from iTunes are formatted differently from those purchased directly from Audible. 2. As of iOS 8.x, there is a well documented Audible app bug that causes the app to not recognize chapter titles or track titles of any books not purchased directly from the Audible website. In effect, the app has the same bug as the original iOS 9.0 version of iBooks had but that was resolved in iOS 9.1. 3. Despite the original source, the Audible app treats titles purchased directly from iTunes as external audio books. As a result, the above mentioned bug manifests when playing these titles. 4. After installing the Audible app, I can confirm that while I can set bookmarks in titles originally purchased directly from iTunes, all of the chapter headings are listed as Chapter 0, consistent with the known bug. So, while I think the Audible app offers marvelous functionality to those currently subscribing to the Audible service, it may not be the best solution for those of us already owning many audible books purchased directly from iTunes. As a side note, Audible has been aware of the above known external audio book source bug since iOS 8.x and, unlike the developers of the iBooks app, as yet anyway, has not Resolved the issue. Mark -- The following information is important for all members of the V iPhone 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 V iPhone list moderator is Mark Taylor and your owner is Cara Quinn - you can reach Cara at caraqu...@caraquinn.com The archives for this list can be searched at: http://www.mail-archive.com/viphone@googlegroups.com/ --- 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 viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to viphone@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/viphone. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
