itunes 11, audio books, how to get a correct sorted display?

Select "List" in the menu below the time bar and the tracks are sorted by Disc first then Track.

In List view you can add columns to the view - right-click in the column header. I can't see how to change the Audiobooks view.

I seem to have this issue too. The book seems to play in order, though the list is not. Kinda annoying.

The issue is still unsolved, I'm using slef ripped audio Books from CDs. In the "list" view the multi disc audio booksare shown in the correct order, when I switch to the "audio book" view, the tracks are sorted as follows:1 CD 1 , 1 CD 2, 1 CD 3, 2 CD 1, 2 CD2 etc. . From the audio book view the books play not in the correct order. Has Anybody a idea, how to solve the issue?

I've got the same issue with all my 100% correct tagged multi-disc Audiobooks here.

With iTunes 11 it isn't possible to play this kind Audiobooks in correct order. 😟

This article may help

http://samsoft.org.uk/iTunes/audiobooks.asp

or you could try an app that will join all the files together. Check them out in the App Store.

I use one called AudioBook Builder but there are others

Found a solution.

I had the same problem with an Audio Book I ripped myself from a CD - I figured it out!

Choose 'Get Info' for each track and enter the track numbers sequencial (1 of 5, 2 of 5, 3 of 5, etc.) and the disc is 1 of 1 for each track. The tracks will then appear and play in the correct order.

@Steve Taylor 1

thanks for your reply, you're right. I have done the same for some of my audiobooks. By building all tracks of one CD together you are able to circumnavigate the poor sorting algorithm. However, I still hope for an update of itunes 11 to solve the issue. It can't be that difficult, it worked in previous versions (1.10.xx and older). I'm not willing to join the files of about 100 audiobooks.

@ impactdave

Your solution will only work, if you have no multiple CD audiobooks. The problem is, that itunes 11 is not able to sort 2 level hierachy (track and CD) audiobooks.

iTunes 11 is such a great dissapointment for me. To fix my audio books that were perfectly well organized in iTunes 10 I now have to manually go through and re tag everything as sequential tracks on 1 disc.

I'd rather switch music players. This is as bad as Final Cut Pro.

iTunes 11 is definitely not an improvement. It is confusing and makes it so much more difficult to import books.

Hi guys,

this helped me, try it.

http://superuser.com/questions/530240/how-to-sort-audiobook-on-itunes