iPod Touch 2.1 and Audiobook problems

I'm having the same problem. I have a large number of audiobooks and need the ability to access them. If I knew this would have happened with the software upgrade, I wouldn't have downloaded it. I don't have time to restore and reload everything.

Apple, please help us out.

Same here.

Without any Audible Audiobooks, it's working with 19 Audiobooks, but not with 20 synced on my iPod touch. The app just closes.

I'm using the same model as Drek with the same firmware version.

Same problem as the above people and same hardware and firmware versions.

Help

I have the same problem, Ipod Touch 32GB firmware ver 2.1 (5F137).
Please fix this!

Same problem. I did a restore with no joy.

Does this continue to happen if you create a playlist for your audiobooks, and listen to them through this playlist?

Pete

The Audiobook playlist is a successful workaround with limtations.

I should have checked before upgrading to 2.1 because I have the same problem--60 audiobooks and none of them show up. I created a playlist for the one I'm listening to and that worked, but this is ridiculous. It's pretty clear that Apple's testing is becoming more like Microsoft's--let the users find the problems.

My God!
At least I'm not the only one experiencing this problem.
Exactly as you described it.
I Factory Reset, Soft Restart, changing audiobooks icon position, praying, begging and still nothing.
Can't open my audiobooks.
I'm going to try setting up different playlist as suggested below.

I hope they will come up with a fix for this.

Yep... Creating a separate playlist works. But it ***** not having the list displayed the way we like it. With covers and all that. Some of my audiobooks are compilations of several files... Too much scrolling.
Apple.... GO BACK TO THE PROGRAMING TABLE!!!!

This happened to me as well. I am using the playlist workaround to access my audiobooks for the moment.

Apple need to fix up the iPod Touch software. It is very buggy.

Another one. Am just waiting for a sync after a restore (didn't find this thread before I ran the restore) - but from the list am betting it won't work.

I have 503 audio book items (29 audible) - because some books have come with one item per chapter. Gonna be hard to get the playlist workaround to be usable for that number 😟 But at least I guess I'll be able to play the files.

I really hope that they fix this one soon - I use the touch perhaps 90% audiobooks, 10% video.

Just to confirm that the playlist workaround also allows me to see the files.

Glad I found this thread. I've been battling with this bizarre problem ever since I updated yesterday.
Hopefully the playlist work-around with work for me, but Apple really needs to start testing the basics before they release.

I'm starting to regret updating to the 2.x firmware series thanks to all the odd crashes they brought with them.