Hey Jerry, you can still sync audiobooks to your iPhone using iTunes 11. What you can't do, in Windows at least, is selectively sync them. It's all or nothing. That's very unfortunate, and to be honest I can't remember just now whether this is a JAWS issue or an iTunes one. I'll follow up on this shortly.
What I do is select a group of MP3 files in my iTunes Library which are audiobooks or radio programs etc., bring up the context menu, and then choose "Get info." This opens a dialog box where you can view and edit information pertaining to the content. On the "Info" tab, I fill in the information as though this is an album of music. For example, I put the author into the 'Artist' box, the title of the book into the 'Album' box, and so forth. If you really want to be organized you can even go back and edit each individual file with track numbers so that iTunes knows what order the tracks should play in. Then on the "Options" tab the media kind should be set to 'Audiobook' and you may wish to enable the option to remember your position. Note that this dialog is occasionally a bit buggy and sometimes the options don't stick the first time. What can I say, it's a bit quirky. The results are well worth it in the end, though. The other thing you could do is download a file management app such as Filer or even Dropbox and play the files that way. There are many advantages though to doing it as I described above using iTunes. For example, you can tell Siri to play a specific book, and you can use apps that will allow you to wake up to audiobook content if you wish to do so. Grant On 4/6/13, Jerry White <[email protected]> wrote: > I was wondering if anyone has tried any other methods for transferring > audio > books to their iPhone since iTunes 11 made this impossible? I know there > were some programs that would let the iPhone act like a USB drive, but > can't > figure out how to use this to move audio books over and then play them in > the Music app as an audio book. > > > > I am using the old stand-by of adding the mp3's as a playlist and syncing > to > the phone. This is a hassle, though, so any help would be greatly > appreciated. > > > > I have an iPhone 4s and also use chapter and verse to create .m4b files. > the files show up in iTunes under the books tab, but can't use iTunes 11 to > tell it which ones I want to sync to the phone. > > > > Thanks in advance for your help! > > Jerry > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the "VIPhone" Google > Group. > To search the VIPhone public archive, visit > http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/viphone?hl=en. > --- > 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]. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. > > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the "VIPhone" Google Group. To search the VIPhone public archive, visit http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/viphone?hl=en. --- 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]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
