No podcasts or audiobooks in the 'more' tab?

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No podcasts or audiobooks in the 'more' tab?

I've just realized my new ipad is not showing either podcasts or audiobooks in the Music app (more tab) - Genres, Composers & Sort By Artist are the only 3 options.

When the ipad is connected to iTunes you can see the books in the dropdown arrow of the device and they are set to sync in the books tab of iTunes.

My iPhone4s has both of them available in the more tab, as expected.

Is there a setting on the iPad I have overlooked, or is this weirdness?

I'm using iMatch on both phone and iPad.

iPad, iOS 5.1

Posted on Mar 30, 2012 11:09 AM

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mcg- Author

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Mar 30, 2012 9:37 PM in response to mcg-

Ok, it was weirdness...

I downloaded a podcast with the iPad (not iTunes) and it appears to have shifted the glitch - I've now got my audiobooks & podcasts.

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Diavonex

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Mar 30, 2012 9:41 PM in response to mcg-

Music>Store>Podcast/iTune U/Download

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mcg- Author

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Mar 31, 2012 12:03 AM in response to Diavonex

I'm not sure how that is relevant. The audiobooks and podcasts were already in my iTunes library, I just wanted them to sync to my new iPad. The settings were exactly the same as my iPhone4s and that *was* working as expected. It's more of an issue with the Music app for iPad, it's flakey. I've had to create all sorts of other work-arounds to get play lists to list correctly etc - and from what I have seen I'm not alone. Hopefully it matures as the year progesses.

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