Thanks that seemed to do the trick. :) I appreciate the time you took to help me. I was not in the options tab but in the info tab and that's why it wasn't working. :) I prefer to keep the tracks for the chapters so at this time I don't plan to join all the tracks into one. I am glad to know of this option as this may be an option I need in the future. Will these other third programs give you the option of keeping the book separated into tracks or will it join them all into one track?
Thanks, Christina On May 17, 2010, at 10:35 AM, Esther wrote: > 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 > > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "MacVisionaries" group. > To post to this group, send email to macvisionar...@googlegroups.com. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To post to this group, send email to macvisionar...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en.
