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

Thanks for posting that Overdrive has a fix albeit a temporary fix. I downloaded the latest version and was able to transfer a book but it took a lot of cleanup to get it to show up and be ready to play on my ipod touch. Only 2 of the 11 tracks had track numbers so 9 of the parts did not show up in the playlist. I edited them and added the track numbers then had to reorder the parts in the playlist from 1-11. This "fix" is obviously just a workaround until they have a new release. My guess is they are not advertising the update yet because it is a kludge.

Forgot to add that I had to drag the tracks intunes from "Books" to the playlist for them to show up on my ipod. Otherwise the playlist is empty. Kludge.

Wow, I!m sorry to hear that! Since I downloaded the new version of Overdrive, my audiobook downloads and transfers have worked without a hitch. I've only downloaded 2 books, but each one went smoothly -- no more numbers and going directly into a playlist created by Overdrive for each book. I have an iPhone 4 (IOS 5); iTunes ver 10.

Thanks for the tips. It's like a life saver! I've been mad about Overdrive dropping the ball. The 3.0.6 Windows Console is just a workaround. I really hope I don't need to adjust and correct the tracks of more than 10 books I'm redonwloading.

Thank you this was extremely helpful. Also needed the comment about transferring the books from books to playlists. However, I do not see how to stop reading a book in the middle of a section and pick up immediately where you left off, as you could do in Audiobooks. Also, it has a shuffle function in playlist, which of course makes no sense. Is there a workaround for stopping reading mid section, listening to something else, and finding where you left off again?

Overdrive Media Console released a new version 3.2.0.7. This version resolved the issue of audiobooks not showing up in the Audiobook section.

I had an Iphone 4 on IOS 5 and overdrive was still working. My books were transfering fine and showed up in Audiobooks. Yesterday I upgraded to an IPhone 4S and now nothing works. I have downloaded the most recent release of the console and still no luck. Very frustrating as I am in the middle of a book and can't get it on my Iphone.

My problem was with both MP3 and WMA audiobooks. Overdrive would put them on my IPOD but I couldn't access them. They were in a file preceded witha backslash. Based on what others contributed I removed and reinstalled Itunes and then did the same with Overdrive. I can now get both MP3 and WMA recorded. The MP3 are put into Music and the WMA go into Playlists.(I am a Windows 7 user.)

kamloopsian -- How is your solution working out? Your plan is my plan. I just got a macbook pro, but, the main thing I do on my old computer is download WMA books from the library and put them on my iPhone 4. My plan was to install Parallels for windows and Windows 7 -- but only use Windows for downloading WMA files in the windows overdrive media console and iTunes in windows to synch to my phone. I would love to find a better solution, but I don't know if there is one. I am worried about what issues I will encounter and if I'll be able to take advantage of synching over the air in Windows (I haven't upgraded my phone or itunes software because my old computer didn't have the space for it). I was pondering putting my iTunes library on Time Machine and seeing if I could open it from either operating system and synch from either, but it may end up trying to resynch my entire phone every time. Any ideas for me? How long have you had this set up running? Any advice would be appreciated. I can live with synching to iTunes on the Windows side if the book transfer works. I usually save my photos to an external hard drive for space reasons anyway, so I plan to do that on time machine then open them from mac iOS to edit. I am still considering returning the mac and getting a cheap PC and an iPad! 😟

I used bootcamp rather than purchasing parallel and then I purchased windows. As long as I didn't want it to sync to my mac side it worked quite well. Actually at first it let me use Overdrive to download directly to my ipod without having to sync but for some reason recently when I try to set itunes to manually manage music it wants to sync my ipod. I didn't upgrade any software so I have no Idea what changed. Hope this helps.

Thanks for the response! Last night I installed Paralells, Windows, Overdrive Media Console on Windows, and then was able to download my book in WMA format. I was hoping I could sync to iTunes on the Mac and have Overdrive recognize that I had iTunes open, but I had to choose Windows or Mac when connecting my phone through the USB and had to choose Windows in order for it to successfully transfer. I was able to get it to work, but as you said, it is now synced to iTunes in Windows. The nice thing was that it pulled in all my music/apps that I had set up in the Mac side, so I didn't have to go through that exercise again. I tested it on my old phone, which I now use as an iTouch for the kids, the battery has no life, so it primarily runs when plugged in. Now I need to decide if I want to set up my current phone on Windows or Mac. If I do windows, I can't take advantage of the cloud or iphoto/imovie directly. I'm totally new to mac, but I think I'll have to import my photos manually. I've never synched to a mac, so I don't really know what I'm missing.

I don't understand how to do this

3. Highlight the mobile device in the left hand menu of iTunes and insure the "Manually manage music and videos" box is checked in the Summary Tab. If the mobile device storage is full, transfering will delete that portion of music necessary for the ebook.

I can't find this in any left hand menu of itunes

Hi,

You highlight the mobile device. This puts the main screen of iTunes in the mobile device summary tab (or it does for me, you may need to highlight the summary tab). Then you scroll down on what is now the main iTunes screen and near the bottom, right hand side, there is a button for "manually manage music and videos". By the way, it never deletes music for me to add an audiobook through WMA audiobooks; it just tells me there's no more space.

I find that lately Overdrive has been creating the books in "playlists", in case you get stuck after you've transferred the audiobook to your mobile device and open the "audiobooks" part of your mobile device and can't find it.

Good luck

Amanda59

Thanks, how do I get you points for your helP

Freda

I also had to set up an Adobe account