I understand where you’re coming from, but ever since I learned to change the Meta tag information, stuff like that simply hasn’t happened, and you can change that sort of information too, simply by utilizing that same Get Info dialog box, and, of course, making sure that the shuffle feature isn’t on in your music player.
Just thought I’d offer an alternative. Victor Gouveia Vice-President Training Coordinator VIP Tech Tel: 1-888-640-6661 Fax: 1-888-640-6669 Home: [email protected] Work: [email protected] Limiting Disabilities with Limitless Possibilities From: Maria and Joe Chapman Sent: Wednesday, November 19, 2014 12:37 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: Adding audio books Hi. I have chosen to use a third party app to play audio books because I frequently found audio books that had the attributes changed and played through the music player wouldn’t always play in the correct order. I found that I had to use something like audio book binder or builder or mp3 to iPod converter to make the audio book in to a long file. Now I can simply zip up my file and import it in to voice dream reader. Much less time consuming and every book I have tried so far plays in order. Cheers Maria Produced on macbook [email protected] On 19 Nov 2014, at 12:19 pm, Victor Gouveia <[email protected]> wrote: Everyone is stuck on using a third party app to read audiobooks, but I've seen no one simply mention to change the file attributes from within iTunes, at which point, the files will be classified as audiobooks and moved accordingly. Simply highlight the file or files you wish to instruct iTunes that they're audiobooks, then press your applications key, and press the letter G for Get Info and press enter. Once in the properties of the file, press tab to get to the list of tabs, if not already there, and press the right arrow to get to the options tab. In the options tab, press tab to get to the combo box labelled, "Media Type:" and press the down arrow to identify the files as an audiobook file. Once done, make sure you check the box that says, "Remember Playback position", and the box that says, "Skip when shuffling", then tab to the ok button, and press the spacebar. I should mention that the above steps are for Windows based PC's or MAC's booting Windows. I should also mention that from that point on, the files will be located under books in your media library, they will no longer be kept with the rest of your music, that is, unless you have auto sorting set to off. Anyway, hope this helps. Victor Gouveia Vice-President Training Coordinator VIP Tech Tel: 1-888-640-6661 Fax: 1-888-640-6669 Home: [email protected] Work: [email protected] Limiting Disabilities with Limitless Possibilities -----Original Message----- From: Sieghard Weitzel Sent: Tuesday, November 18, 2014 1:08 PM To: [email protected] Subject: RE: Adding audio books Hi Fanus, My WiFi at home is ADSL hence it has nothing to do with my cellular data limit. That means that as long as I am connected to my WiFi at home or at work my cellular data is not being used and while I think there is a limit to how much data I can use on my ADSL, it is so high that it's never been an issue. . I don't know what arrangement you have. WiFi can also use cellular data if you are using some sort of hot spot or smarthub, but like I said, that is something you probably know. When you say you have "WiFi which allows me to connect to the cell network for internet purposes" that sounds to me like you are using cellular data for everything. Regards, Sieghard -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Fanus Sent: Tuesday, November 18, 2014 9:38 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: Adding audio books Hello Sieghard Thanks, that sounds quite easy. I am curious. You asked if I can't do it with wifi. Well, I have a wifi network because I have a wifi which allows me to connect to the cell network for internet purposes. How would one do a wifi transfer? Regards Fanus ----- Original Message ----- From: "Sieghard Weitzel" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Tuesday, November 18, 2014 7:01 PM Subject: RE: Adding audio books Hi Fanus, Can't you do it on WiFi? Anyhow, to do this in iTunes, connect your phone, go to it and in the list view which starts with Summary arrow down once to Apps. Now tab or use F6 until you get to file sharing. Here you will find a list of apps which are capable of iTunes file sharing. Voice Dream will be one of these, arrow to it and then tab to the "Add" button. Browse to your book on the computer and select it. It will take a moment or a few moments and the book should be added, now if you sync your device the book should transfer. Regards, Sieghard -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Fanus Sent: Tuesday, November 18, 2014 8:31 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: Adding audio books Hi John and Sieghard I have limited download data, so how does one get the book to the iPod using iTunes? Regards Fanus ----- Original Message ----- From: "John Diakogeorgiou" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Tuesday, November 18, 2014 4:00 PM Subject: Re: Adding audio books If you have Voice Dream, zip the files into one file. You can use either iTunes or even better dropbox to import them into voice dream. On 11/18/14, Fanus <[email protected]> wrote: Hello Richard Thanks for this. It sounds a much easier way to listen with voice DreamReader. Regards Fanus ----- Original Message ----- From: Richard Turner To: [email protected] Sent: Tuesday, November 18, 2014 3:30 PM Subject: Re: Adding audio books I don't know that this is less tedious, but it is necessary if you want those files to be seen as books. When you impoort mp3 files into iTunes, it assumes they are music. So, depending on how the files are tagged, you may find them under artist, title, unknown, etc. in the music folder. With iTunes 12, I find this whole process a bit more challenging than it was before. You can search for the book in the music library, then if your search gets you all the files, you can right click and select get info. You will then need to change the "kind" from music to audio book. You will also have choices of skip when shuffling, remember your place, which you want if it is a book. If the files are not tagged correctly, you may find chapters out of order. Remember, iTunes does not care what the file names are, it sorts only by the internal tagging. I believe folks on this list have recommended software that can make the tagging and all that much easier, but I don't recall what the name was. Personally, if I want to listen to an audio book that is in mp3 format, I now use VoiceDream Reader. With VoiceDream, you simply need to make sure the files are named in such a way that they will be sorted in order, add them all to a zip file with the zip filename the name of the book. Add the zip file to dropbox, and use VoiceDream to import the zip file. When it is done, you will have a book that is named whatever the zip file was named, and each file will be treated as a chapter in the book. It works fabulously. HTH, Richard Reality is the leading cause of stress for those who are in touch with it. 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