Hi Christina,
You wrote:
I cannot get an audio book to show up in my books of my itunes
library. I ripped a CD that came with a book and it's an audiobook
of the book. itunes categorized it as music and therefore shows up
in my music folder. I have tried selecting all of the tracks at
once and then going into info and selecting it as a audiobook but
it won't show up in my books folder.
It sounds as though you're almost there. Make sure that when you do
Get Info (Command-I) that you use the Options tab to change the Media
Kind pop up to Audiobook -- changing the genre on the Info tab won't
help here. I'll paste in the instructions.
1. Select the files of the audiobook in the Songs table.
2. Press Command-I to open the Get Info dialog box.
3. Select the Options tab.
4. Change the media kind to Audiobook.
5. Check the option for "Remember playback position"
6. Check the option for "Skip when shuffling"
You can select and process multiple files at once. Changing the media
kind from "Music" to "Audiobook" will make the files show up under
Audiobooks instead of Music, but it will not keep track of your last
played position. So if you start listening to your Audiobook again,
you will start at the beginning. Checking the option to "Remember
playback position" turns on bookmarking behavior so that your play
resumes where you left off. Incidentally, if you sync audiobooks, and
listen to the same tracks alternately between iTunes on your computer
and on your iPhone or iPod, the bookmarked position will advance to
the furthest point on either, so you can seamlessly continue your
listening regardless of whether you are using your iPhone or iTunes on
your computer. Checking "Skip when shuffling" will keep audiobooks
out of any "shuffle play" playlist options so you don't hear a chapter
from a book in the middle of a song list.
A few other suggestions: as Matthew and Philippe have suggested, there
are programs for joining tracks and easily importing CDs as
audiobooks. I'll give you the links.
• Audio Bookbinder
http://bluezbox.com/audiobookbinder.html
• Audiobook Maker
http://audiobookmaker.sourceforge.net/
Both of those are freeware. Another package that is popular is
Splasm's Audiobook Builder ($9.95):
http://www.apple.com/downloads/macosx/ipod_itunes/audiobookbuilder.html
If you import tracks yourself from CD using iTunes, you can join all
the tracks on the CD into a single track at the time of importing. To
join tracks, when the disc is inserted and selected in the sources
table, navigate to songs table (e.g, stop interacting with the sources
table and VO-Right Arrow or tab to the songs table, or just use VO-J
to immediately jump to the songs table without having to stop
interacting). Select all tracks with Command-A, then join the tracks
by navigating to the iTunes menu bar (VO-M), then press "A" to go to
the "Advanced" menu, arrow down and press "J" to go to the "Join
Tracks" option and press return. Now when you import your CD it will
do this as a single file. You can select any of these joined tracks
and make them show up as audiobooks using the instructions given above.
HTH. Cheers,
Esther
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