iPod Touch 4g IOS5 does not resume audio books

Have the same problem with video files(I didn't try to listen to the audiobook after updating ) on my iPhone 4 with ios 5.

It maybe Itunes 10.5 thats doing it. To get video files to resume,you need to copy the file to your Itunes video library and then copy it from the library to your Iphone or Ipod.It should then resume.

I tried that 1st off. I'm having no trouble with iTunes 10.5 just iOS 5

ravfromvancouver wrote:

To get video files to resume,you need to copy the file to your Itunes video library and then copy it from the library to your Iphone or Ipod.It should then resume.

It works! Thank You!

As mentioned above audiobook bookmarks can be made manually with the audible app as a stop gap measure.

Definately an ios5 problem and not an itunes problem although it would be nice if they fixed iTunes to show album and audiobook art again.

I have a test audiobook that works ok on second gen ipod touch and an older 120 gb ipod. Take that same audio book and sync using the same itunes to an iPhone 4s and to an iPad 2 with ios5 and audiobook bookmarks no longer work.

I've taken books we've purchaed from cd and read them in combined tracks with audiobookbinder. Book parts are no more than 4 cds each. This program combines the individual tracks and makes a single m4b file which shows in itunes as an audiobook with the remember position checked.

Audiobook bookmarks are lost when returning to a book with an automatic saved position bookmark. Leaving a book for a song and then returning to the book, sometimes you can view the saved position for a split second. Then the book part starts at the beginning.

The squeeky wheel gets fixed first. There are a lot of ios5 issues that Apple's beta testers missed. I recommend that if you want this functionality back to submit bug reports to Apple. http://bugreport.apple.com

Well, 5.01 is out and it's not fixed :-(((

I'm not a developer and that link is the only one I have submitted bugs to. I just use my Apple id and submit.

I found that iTunes doesn't work well with LARGE (lengthy) MP3 audio books, different LAME encoders work differently. What I found is that using iTunes to export the file in AAC format (m4a) and changing the filename to m4b works fine for resuming.

To get the AAC export option, change the IMPORT option for CDs to AAC. This is a bit strange but the export uses the same setting as the import.Choose an export format that is reasonable, I use fixed 128 kbits, which is overkill for an audiobook, but it's not that much bigger than 48 kbits, a format that to me sounds bad.

Remove the mp3 file, add the m4a file AFTER you change the extension to m4b. Resume should work fine.

Thanks but that doesn't help the lost bookmark issue.

I went ahead and tried adding chapters with some software similar to Chapter Master, but neither the music app or Audible app will save my place if I play any other music file. I can add bookmarks in Audible, but the inability to play continuously is pretty inconvenient for shorter length files. If anyone has discovered a solution for this I would love to hear. Thanks!

Sorry, correction. It actually did fix the problem as long as I imported into my itunes library first, then to my iphone.

Hi Brownimation,

You were quick to fix the issue.

I just wanted to suggest that copying a M4B file from iTunes library rather than from Explorer is a compulsory condition to resume paused playback of an audiobook.The same condition apply to resuming Video as well

I'm quirte surprised that it takes so long for the "fruit company" to fix such an obvious regression in its IOS5-native Music and Video applications.

You're a hero! Thank you so much. I was really hating myself for doing the update. All videos resuming like normal. Thank you!