audiobook chapters by same author messed up in the Finder?

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audiobook chapters by same author messed up in the Finder?

When I "show in finder" on a music track the track will show up in iTunes Media/ Music/ Artist/ Album - all very neat and as it should be!

However with an audiobook, where I have many audiobooks by the same author, then "show in finder" takes you only to the author's folder (iTunes Media / Audiobooks / Author / ...

There's no seperation of the "albums" within the Finder - and since many such tracks are named with a leading double digit I just have the first chapters of all the books by the author grouped together and then the second chapters and so on. Actually it gets worse than that as many such books have multiple discs so all the track 01's get mixed up!

My metadata inside iTunes is pretty well arranged so WITHIN iTunes I can clearly see my different books - but I'm struggling to see how I could get things better organised in the Finder so if I want to locate the "physical" (can't think of a better word!) tracks I can do so easily as I could with a music track.

Oh yes - and all this without PLEASE messing up the beautifully organised metadata I have inside iTunes!

Is the only way to change the "Media Kind" in Options back to Music so they get sorted into album folders? Hopefully there's a better way!

Many thanks

Posted on Oct 21, 2012 2:06 PM

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enmueller

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Mar 1, 2015 9:59 AM in response to Julian Morgan

SOLVED!!!

Hi there!

Up to date this "bug" hasn't been resolved, but there is a very easy way around this:

Edit your audioboos Author so it includes the Title of the Audiobook too, i.e. Author: Douglas Adams - Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy

Of course this has a few drawbacks. Looking for Douglas Adams will make a few sparate Douglas Adams pop up, if you have more than one audiobook, but: In Finder every Author get his own folder in the audiobooks folder.... so the different titles get neatly organized.

Anyways, Apple - please fix this, shouldn't cost the responsible guys more than an hour of work, no? Am I being naive? It works for Music Albums...

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