iOS 7 and Audiobook Chapters

iTunes strips out the Audible chapter marks. If I download through the Audible app all my chapters are there and work properly but if I transfer to my iPhone using iTunes it strips out the chapter marks. Even on ones that I have had prior to iOS 7. I've had to redownload directly through the Audible app to get the chapters back once iTunes have touched the audio book file.

Is that legal? maybe Apple has been forced to back off on the feature because of a legal issue. Dunno.

How did you download audible books into the itunes music app? Its not possible is it.

Download from Audible and drag them into iTunes.

Thanks. I'll give it a try.

When I download to my computer from Audible it automatically adds the book to iTunes then drage it to the phone/ipod/ipad when it is connected to play through iTunes music app on the device.

I strongly concur with the request for Apple to reinstate the chapter functionality for audiobooks. I would not have upgraded to iOS 7 had I been aware of this major regression in function.

Until this changes I will use the "Audible" app and it has now replaced the native "Music" app as one of the four apps on the bottom of my iPhone screen. It can read any book loaded through iTunes on an iOS 7 iPhone, or you can download books directly from your Audible library to your phone. I don't know how it would deal with books created from CDs.

To get save and have fully audiobook functionalily you need sslfix on 6.1. Does Apple offer 6.1.6 or have we to j**l break the phone and fix it by ourself?

I just reported this to Apple engineers using Apple's Bug Reporter (for developers). I will keep you all posted on the progress.

Many people (me too) had send bug reports and managers does not known anything about this lack/bug.

On page 21 (3th post) i have post some links to pictures on iOS 4.2.1 / iOS 6.1.x / iTunes chapter menu / QuickTime Player menu and an example file (m4b).

All this i have also send inside a bug report and got no response!

Not only have they done away with the very useful chapters feature, I find that after a few hours of non-play, my iPhone no longer remembers what I was last listening to. I click on my earbud remote, expecting to hear my audiobook pickup where it left off, but instead, I get a random music selection from iTunes Radio. This is not an improvement, Apple. I don't want random music playing. I want the last thing I played to pick back up just like it used to. Anyone have a fix for this?

Yes - returning to the book is lost after a few hours, sometimes after making a phone call- mine goes to random music catalog play. One minute I'm listening to a Biography on Winston Churchill the next I'm getting jungle Boogie - Genius!

At least moving from Part one of a book to Part two seems to be restored recently.

But, audiobooks on ios7 is still pants.

7.1 available ... Something happended? I think NO!

It may be the only remedy is to seek user driven solutions.

I myself prefer to purchase audiobooks on CDROM and assemble using iTunes and ChapterMark (http://labalpha.com). Then you can control size, quality etc. yeah it's a bit more work but I only convert what I'd listen to repeatedly.

There are few good titles worth the effort and I've a supply to last quite a while, but can they at least ditch album art in landscape mode? So much for attention to detail.

p.s. You when you control the content you can be in a better position to control deployment, the device used, and mitigate hassles. Of course the losers (vendors) - you'd think would voice a concern, but like a lot of things, voting with your wallet is easily understood.

So sadly one by one we will find alternative solutions. Like I wrote, vintage CDROM audiobooks are cheap, easily converted and offer the greatest flexibility *and* offer a backup ;-).