Comments on: Obscure iPod Audiobook Issue

By: John

John — Thu, 22 May 2008 10:36:04 +0000

There is a better way to convert audiobooks using a free program. This free program allows you to convert these files to audiobook files and when you impoert them into iTunes they will come up in the audiobook library.

Check out http://www.iPod-Audiobook.co.nr

By: iandelor

iandelor — Fri, 14 Mar 2008 21:54:29 +0000

For all you people complaining that you don’t want your audiobook files to shuffle, why don’t you just select that option in the info page for the file? You can select every audio file you have at once and change them to not play during shuffle all at once! Voila! Problem solved.

Apple should be told this is waaaaaaay too much work to get audiobooks into the audiobook folder, though. A tiny update to the iPod software would fix this.

By: John

John — Sun, 09 Mar 2008 14:57:57 +0000

I have found a website which shows you a much easier way to convert your audiobooks using a free program

http://www.freewebs.com/ipod-audiobook

By: Florian

Florian — Sun, 20 May 2007 11:31:24 +0000

Hi!
On http://www.freeipodsoftware.com you can download a free MP3 to iPod Audio Book Converter for Windows. You can also combine multible MP3s to a single *.m4b File with it.

By: JD

JD — Sat, 24 Feb 2007 17:53:19 +0000

My audiobook files show up in the audiobook folder AND the music folder. How can I get them out of the Music folder and only into the audiobook folder?

thanks

By: Adam

Adam — Wed, 17 Jan 2007 04:47:57 +0000

Lookup (for Mac users) Audiobook Builder on http://www.versiontracker.com – it does all this dirty work of importing and making nice, neat .m4b files to your liking. It is shareware and costs a few bucks but it is worth it in my opinion. 

By: John

John — Tue, 16 Jan 2007 07:32:52 +0000

To merge different mp3 files into a big one I use a little free program called mp3 merger. http://mp3merge.netfirms.com/

I was looking for a solution to the problem the author explained above. With big files, after about 5 mins into the audiobook the ipod pops you back to the main menu, then you loose your bookmark. Any ideas on how to solve this?

By: Rob

Rob — Tue, 26 Dec 2006 06:40:49 +0000

I can load my audiobook files onto my ipod nano by clicking and dragging them into “music” in itunes. they are correctly read and played as audiobooks. i cannot, however, access them afterwards from itunes nor delete them. any advice?

By: Aaron

Aaron — Sun, 03 Dec 2006 19:41:07 +0000

You’re a little math deficient yourself. If it’s 25% faster, than you could read an hour’s worth of material in 48 minutes. You can’t just subtract 25% from the original time. If you read it 100% faster, you would be reading it twice as fast – but according to your math, it would take you zero minutes to read anything at that speed.

By: George

George — Thu, 27 Jul 2006 18:11:58 +0000

To rename lots of files use the rename command. On my box it comes from the util-linux rpm.
rename .m4a .m4b *.m4a