No audiobooks category in iTunes

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No audiobooks category in iTunes

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I'm yet another newbie 🙂. I have a 3rd gen., 8gb nano. I bought an audiobook in an actual walk-in store, downloaded the cd's onto windows media player and iTunes. The problem is this: there is no category for the audiobooks under the Library in the Source list. iTunes downloaded it into the music library and now when I listen to the music in the iPod I get the audiobook tracts--I have the iPod set on shuffle, you can imagine the look on my face when I heard a man's voice in my ear!!! The closest I've come to finding a solution was something for Mac, something like Audiobook Builder 1.0.8.

hp pavilion, Windows XP

Posted on Apr 24, 2008 10:01 PM

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Answer 1

rb07

Level 2

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Apr 25, 2008 12:05 AM in response to Jeorjette

The audiobook category only appears on iTunes if you set the option Edit -> Preferences and check Audiobooks.

Doing that will not put your audiobook there, the one you have as music. You will have to delete the result of copying the CDs, but only from iTunes, keep the tracks on your computer.

An iPod audio book is one file, with extension .m4b; you need to put all the files that resulted from copying the original CDs into one of those.

There is a manual procedure [1] to create audiobooks using iTunes, but I do it using "MP3 to iPod audio book converter", bad news: it's only for Windows.

http://www.freeipodsoftware.com/

There's another similar tool (also for Windows), which uses iTunes to create the file, this one is not free [2], but it has a trial period.

Audiobook Builder, as you say, is another choice; and seems better than the options above from the description. Works on Mac OSX [3] [4].

[1] http://www.dagondesign.com/articles/turning-mp3-audiobooks-into-ipod-audiobooks/

[2] http://www.ipodsoft.com/site/pmwiki.php?n=markable.Homepage

[3] http://www.apple.com/downloads/macosx/ipod_itunes/audiobookbuilder.html

[4] http://www.splasm.com/audiobookbuilder/

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Answer 2

Sandylp

Level 3

665 points

Apr 29, 2008 11:30 AM in response to Jeorjette

I just copied several audio books and put them on my iPod. You can find directions on how to do it on this site: http://aldoblog.com/audiobooks/itunes/importing-audio-cds/. The books are classified as Spoken Word. Even if you change it to Audiobook, the books will show up in the Music category rather than Audiobook, but when you follow the directions, you can listen to them just fine.

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