As a note of interest, along with using voice dream reader to listen to old
time radio shows, I use the following app: LibriVox Audio Books Pro,
Theodore Book, Version 4.2. With this app, I can download old time radio
shows directly to my ios device.
-----Original Message-----
From: M. Taylor
Sent: Thursday, July 02, 2015 12:59 AM
To: viphone@googlegroups.com
Subject: A Workaround FollowUp To: A Definite Step Backwards for AudioBook
Listeners in iOS 8.4 iBooks
Hello All,
As you may recall, I posted a message to the list discussing my dismay at
the loss of manually-created audiobook chapter heading or individual episode
title navigation as a result of Apple's decision to move native audiobook
playback from the native iOS Music app to iBooks.
By the way, as stated in my previous post, I did submit a bug report to
Apple about this issue.
Today, during a very pleasant phone discussion with an extremely kind list
member, who responded to my request for a Voice Dream Reader conversation,
it occurred to me that, as a workaround, instead of tagging the .mp3 files
as audiobooks, via iTunes, I could simply change the media type to Podcast,
instead. Then, after syncing my iOS device as I would normally do, simply
listen to the manually-created audiobooks, complete with chapter heading or
individual episode title navigation intact, using the native Apple Podcast
app.
I am delighted to say that this workaround is working perfectly in iOS 8.4.
Mark
-----Original Message-----
From: viphone@googlegroups.com [mailto:viphone@googlegroups.com] On Behalf
Of M. Taylor
Sent: Tuesday, June 30, 2015 11:52 PM
To: viphone@googlegroups.com
Subject: A Definite Step Backwards for AudioBook Listeners in iOS 8.4 iBooks
Hello Everyone,
This post comes under the heading of look before you leap:
I enjoy downloading old-time radio dramas such as the Mystery Theater and
Beyond Midnight as .mp3 files, then tagging them as Audio Books in iTunes
and then listening to them in the native iOS app.
So, for example, I have three episodes from the Beyond Midnight radio
series. The three titles are Let me See Your Face, Fortieth Birthday, and
The Room. These are .mp3 files that, after being imported into iTunes, I
change their media type to Audio Book. Now because I have them tagged as
Beyond Midnight, under the Album field, in the Title field, I can list the
actual episode names as listed above.
In iOS 8.3 and earlier, after syncing to my iOS device, I would then simply
select Audiobooks from within the native music app, and then I would see
Beyond Midnight listed as a single book. After single-finger double-tapping
on the title, I would then see each episode listed by name.
No longer.
To my complete dismay, I now discover that in iOS 8.4, the iBooks app does
not list the individual episodes by names or chapter titles but simply list
them as tracks.
This means that when I now select Beyond Midnight, under contents, all I see
are track 1, track 2, and track 3.
Try as I may, I cannot figure out how to get each episode listed by its
episode title or chapter heading.
At first, I thought this was an oversight until I did a search on Google and
discovered the following excerpt from Mac Rumors that described this issue
back near the beginning of the beta cycle:
[Begin Excerpt]
Currently, in iOS 8.3, a users' audiobook library is divorced from their
ebook library, forcing users to use two different apps to access their
entire digital book library. The new update consolidates all books in
Apple's iBooks app and also fixes another longstanding issue with audiobooks
on iOS. Since iOS 7, audiobook listeners have been unable to view chapter
titles or even select them. However, pazimi points out that while chapters
are now selectable in iOS 8.4, they do not list the actual chapter titles,
as they're listed as "track numbers".
[End Excerpt]
The URL for the entire article can be found at:
http://www.macrumors.com/2015/04/14/audiobooks-ios-8-4-beta/
This issue occurs in both iTunes 11.x and the very latest version of iTunes
12.
Fortunately for me, I have not yet updated my beloved 6 Plus to iOS 8.4.
Although I doubt it will make any difference to Apple, I will send a bug
report via the bug reporting portal.
If any of you have discovered a tagging method that will allow for the
individual chapter titles to be respected in audiobooks, in the iBooks app,
please post.
If I had updated to the latest iOS without doing some testing, over 70
episodes of my radio dramas would have been reduced to mere track numbers on
my phone.
In The Journey,
Mark
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