Transferring protected WMA audiobooks to iTunes/iPhone using OverDrive Media Console

I'm about ready to give up. I have uninstalled and then reinstalled iTunes; uninstalled and reinstalled OMC; upgraded the Windows Media Player Security twice; Deleted and redownloaded the audiobook itself. Nothing works. iTunes is not syncing the book to my iPhone 4 (with IOS 5). when I click on the "books" folder on the sidebar under my device, it shows each chapter but it has a number not a name. Rather than "syncing" while transferring the book like it used to, in the top bar of iTunes, it says "converting XXX" XXX being a number. But even the numbered files don't make it to my iPhone -- or, if they do, I can't find them.

I wish I had never upgraded iTunes or my iPhone. I really don't want to pay whatever fee apple charges for a support phone call that may or may not help anyway. Everything else seems to work -- I am at a total loss.😕

Just figured that these weird numbered chapters/parts of the audio book from OMC, show up in that order if you have Audible app. Check in "iPod Library" tab. I just downloaded a book and the random numbered parts viz., 6650, 6725, etc show up in audible app "iPod library" section (you should enable 'Show iPod audiobooks' in settings for audible) and I can play.

Such a shame that OMC did not QE iOS 5 sync. Hope some OMC engineers working actively to fix this issue. For now, something is better than nothing :-)!

Thank you for that! I did not have the Audible app so never would have thought to look there!! It is better than nothing until OMC comes up with a fix.

Overdrive has a Facebook pafe. Surprise!! They have posted that they are aware of the problem and are workig on a fix, don't know when it ill beee available, but watch for an updae. At least they are aware of it.

There's a glitch with IOS 5 and Overdrive . I never had a problem tranferring until I upgraded my phone the other day . Now it acts like it's working but it wont sync to ITunes. It keeps telling my to check ITunes.

I see the numbered sections but cannot figure out how to enable 'Show iPod audiobooks' in settings for audible

help please

bobbyoreilly wrote:

Is there any way we can contact members of this site without posting it on the forum? I don't see a private message option.

Wow, bobby. You used to be able to send private messages. Guess that is one of the capabilities Apple dropped in the site upgrade (or downgrade).

Achan, there is an on/off switch under settings next to "Show iPod Audiobooks" -- if you just click on it, it should turn on (or off if it's already on). Once it's on, the numbered sections will show up in the library and you can listen to them.

I am also having problems with Overdrive. Because so many of the books are licensed for PC only I set up bootcamp and installed Windows on my computer so that I could download more titles. Before purchasing my iPhone 4 I was able to transfer books to my iPod. Last night I tried to transfer a book to my iPhone and got the message about turning on Manually manage, but the problem is I don't want to Sync to the PC side of my computer. All my music etc is on the Mac side. Is there any way around this. I have no trouble downloading the Mac licensed audio books, just the PC. I tried turning the manually manage and erased and synced the iPhone from the PC side. Of course it worked but was deleted when I resynced to the Mac side.

Any suggestions?

I got it to work! This worked on my first gen i-Pad. In Itunes on the PC go to preferences, and chose "Device" and check "Prevents from synching automatically" now just transfer with the ODMC. Now go to Itunes, create a play list on the device, now copy/drag drop the book from audiobooks to your new play list. Disconnect and it shows up. And of course you can rename the file so its not just those silly numbers.

This didn't work for me as my problem is I don't have my iPhone synced to this version of iTunes. I have it synced to my Mac side. All I want to do is use ODM to transfer the files directly to my iPhone. I was able to do this with my iPod and am wondering if it is the new software on the iPhone. I needs me to turn manually maganage music on in itunes and when I do this I have to sync my iphone to that itunes library. The only reason I set up bootcamp and windows on my mac was to download the PC licenced ipod compatible books to my iPhone (iPod). I have no problems using ODM on my Mac side, I can either transfer directly or drag and drop to my itunes. Of course if I try to drag and drop to the PC side of my iTunes I get an error message saying they are protected.

Just discovered the problem, but also found the answer here! After copying and pasting to the playlist I named the same as the book title and renaming each chapter, I am now able to listen again. If you add 'download date' in the iTunes list, you can see when each chapter downloaded by time and rename them accordingly. The next step was to go back to the library site that I downloaded the book from and copy the book cover image and paste it into all of the chapters in my playlist. I did it all at once by selecting all of them. I used the largest book cover image size I could find and now I get an even better image on my iPhone (iOS5) than I did previously. Thanks for the tip! As one of other contributors said, I really missed listening to a book on my commute to and from work....

I'm going to post this in 3 places... here, another discussion I've been in, and I'm going to start a new discussion so as many people as possible will get the answer. Overdrive came up with a fix !!!!! A gentleman posting on Overdrive's Facebook page said he received an email from them stating that they had a solution. Download the upgrade to OMC from the Overdrive website. The books will transfer but they create a new Playlist. They are no longer shown in Audiobooks. I went to the Overdrive site -- there is absolutely NO mention of an upgrade or a fix to their problem with IOS 5, but I decided to download anyway. Sure enough, it works. Overdrive will create a new playlist for each audiobook and they play! No more funky numbers and while I haven't gone from one section to another, it should play smoothly between sections. The book art is back. We are back in business finally !!!!