keeping place in an audiobook

When connected to you computer's iTunes, select the Books section (or Music if that is what they are set as) on the left-hand side of iTunes under the iPad 'device' so that the audiobooks/books that you have on the iPad are shown on the right-hand side of iTunes. Then select/highlight the audiobooks that aren't remembering their place and do 'get info' (control-I), and on the Options tab on the pop-up make sure that 'remember position' is 'yes'. You should do the same change to the versions that you have on your computer's iTunes so that if they re-sync that setting doesn't get changed back.

It may be too early to tell for sure, but I've found a work-around that seems to be working for me. I've found that, although my iTouch doesn't remember the playback position of audiobooks, it DOES remember the playback position of podcasts (which now play in the new-to-iOS6 podcast app). So I changed the media type of my audiobook to "podcast", and now it is playing in the podcast app, and it seems (so far) to be remembering where I'm at properly.

What I did with mine is when they were in the Music section of my library I did get-info (control-I), and on the Options tab set 'remember position' to 'yes' (and 'skip when shuffling' to 'yes') and changed their 'Media kind' to 'Audiobook' so that they moved to the Books part of my library. For those where the book is split across several 'tracks' I make sure that they have the same album name and I give them disc numbers - so for a 3 'track' audiobook I put a 1 at the start of its trackname and set it as disc 1 of 3 etc . There may be easier ways of doing it, but that seems to work for me

I ended up just downloading the free Audible app and purchase all of my books through them instead of purchasing any of them through iTunes. I do not care who gets the money and the app works like I expect it to.

Thanks Heycas - It works for me.

To recap for anyone else you need to remove write protection from your master files. Like this

1. Go to the folder on your pc that holds your audiobook. ( Probably C:\itunes\itunes media\author\book name ) .
2. Right click on book folder and select "Properties".
3. Properties pop up window should show the "General" tab. If not select it.
4. At the bottom of that tab next to "Attributes" make sure "Read Only" is un-ticked (or un-checked if you're American)
5. When a confirmation screen pops up make sure that "Apply to this folder, sub folders and files" is ticked.
6. And finally syncronise your device. For me I had to un-sync that Audiobook then re-sync it.

Obviously you need to ensure the "Remember Playback Position" option has been ticked like everyone else has been saying.

Since most of my Audiobooks are my own CDs that I have ripped these have all automatically saved themselves as read only.

For info I am using Iphone 5C on IOS 7.1.2.

Cheers!

You would think this would work, but it doesn't. I have the same problem where itunes constantly loses my place in audiobooks and it is very annoying. As soon as I play a song, it loses my place and I have to find it again. Not to mention I buy most of my books from Itunes so it should work better considering it is thier product. Even with the button clicked to "remember place" in the info section clicked, it does not actually keep your place.

Please fix this Apple!!!

Having the same issue here. It is even more annoying when everyone gives the same answer...Get Info..options...click remember position....blah...blah...blah. All of that has already been done and it is still not working. My favorite suggestion is to change the media type from audiobook to music...go through the previous steps...and then change from music back to audiobook. This does not work either. How about Apple fixes the problem instead of ignoring it. This is not a new issue with them. There is no sense paying for audiobooks from the iTunes Store if the software is not going to remember where I paused the book at. I will spend my money with another store and listen on a device that actually works as intended. If Apple deems this worthy of fixing someday, I may consider looking at it again, but until then it is just one less thing that I will be using my iPad for.

> I changed the media type of my audiobook to "podcast"

Well that's no good -- is it? Hopeless suggestion for me at least. Audiobooks are a bunch of files, which so far as remembering position goes, need to be treated as one file; It's no good for it to remember positions on an individual files basis. Plus, worse, it doesn't resepct the order of the audiobook because it thinks the different files are different podcasts from the same podcaster, so it'll happily play the last ("most recent" in its mind) file. And that's what happens for an audiobook labelled as podcast -- at least that's the case for me: iTunes 11.0.3, iPod shuffle 4th/5th gen.

Anyone worked out how to get audiobooks to remember where you're up to?

I've never downloaded anything but Audible books. My problem is that my Ipod shuffle does not go to the next part of multipart books. I've used a Zune before purchasing my iPod Shuffle last month and it has been aggravating to say the least. I have 245 Audible books that are all multiple part books and I am always screwing around at the end of a part.I just reset my iPod and resync'd my iPod and that worked, but I am ready to pitch the iPod and go back to the Zune.

Can anyone help me with automatic transitions from part to part?

I have been having this same problem for a couple years. It seems like an easy fix for Apple to correct this bug. I listen to audiobooks every day and it is infuriating to have to try to find my place again about 1/2 times I reopen my audiobook!!

I have been using a 3rdGen iPod touch for years to listen to my audiobooks.

Yesterday I finally bought my very first iPhone...a blue iPhone5c...and I was so excited!

I thought I'd be able to just listen to my audiobooks through my iPhone, and that's all I would need to carry.

But I have to say that I am SO frustrated and am near tears because my audiobooks keep losing it's place!

Every single time I remove the headphones or turn off the iPhone the audiobook jumps back to a previous spot. And it's almost impossible to find the spot again!

I have tried playing through the Audible.com app and another audiblebook player and the same thing happens.

Because it's my first iPhone I think I must be doing something wrong and I go right through the settings, but no, I can't find a solution.

And then I jump online to see if anyone else has the same problem...and Oh My Goodness! This is a common thing that has been happening for years!

And now I am just angry and upset that I spent all this money on an iPhone when it will not do such a simple thing as keep track of where an audiobook is up to. I should just have kept my old iPod and crappy little samsung phone.

This is the first time I've ever been upset with Apple (and we have multiple iMac, Macbook Pro, iPods and iPads etc) and thank goodness I have two weeks to take this iPhone back to apple.

I listen to audiobooks every day, and I'm not going through this frustration every day.

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I have found a solution (in my particular case, at least). When I drag an audiobook directly from some folder on my computer to my iPod (in iTunes) it will start over every time I start the audiobook. But if I add the audiobook to my iTunes library first and then drag it from THERE to my iPod, it remembers where I left off each time! It has been a great relief to discover this trick!

When you are sure that your folder containing your audiobook files is not writeprotected. You still have to mark all your files in iTunes and choose view info and in properties choose remember position yes. After clicking ok check again if it remembers your setting. If it does not - your folder is write protected. If it is not try in iTunes view info to change the mediatype to audiobook. Check if it remembers your settings

updating to iOS 7.0.4 didn't fix this problem for me. I still constantly lose the position where I left with the audiobook. And it seems that in some cases playing starts from previous place I was left earlier and sometimes it just starts from the beginning.

Maybe I'm late in entering this, but I just updated to iOS7 on iPhone and iPad and this problem just started. I tried everything else everyone said here to no avail. Strangely, I found that if I select the audiobook from the audiobooks in Music App while it's already playing (e.g. I'm listening to Count of Monte Cristo in the Music app and I re-select the same Part that's already playing) then it starts saving my position. This has worked on both the iPad and iPhone. Personally, I suspect it is a conflict with saving music positions during sync because they always were returning to the last synced position. Good luck - hope this helps.