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I rip audiobook CDs, and created, via "options," unified complications of audiobooks. I am now shut out from doing this, and told the media is mixed. How to I regain the ability to create audiobooks in iTunes 12?
OS X Mavericks (10.9)
Not sure if this will help you...but this workaround seems to work for me:
1. Put the CD in, but don't select auto-upload. Instead, let the list of the tracks load. Sort by tracks (to make sure they're in order) and then highlight all the tracks.
2. In the upper right corner, there's a dropdown list. With the tracks highlighted, select Join CD Tracks. The tracks will be bracketed together now.
3. Then select import.
4. When the dialog box comes up, change from iTunes Plus (which was the default for me) to Spoken Podcast. Also, I have the Import Using option set to AAC Encoder.
5. After the tracks are imported, it looks like you still can't change the setting from Music. But, go to the little Music icon in the top left corner. Then Playlist. Then recently added over in the sidebar. Sort to have your last addition at the top of the list. Whew. Almost there.
6. Right-click on your audiobook and go to Get Info, then to Options. From there, you should be able to (FINALLY) change to Audiobooks under media kind. Also, it's good to select the other checkboxes to remember playback position and skip when shuffling.
I'm using iTunes 12.4 and I'm not having any issue with creating audiobooks when importing from CDs - either Apple changed something in the newer iTunes versions, or the only important bit is the import using AAC coding. My settings are AAC-coding / iTunes Plus, and after importing the CDs into iTunes all I do is make sure all CDs and tracks are listed under one entry by editing artist and disc names. After that I can easily change the media to audiobook, and the CD no longer shows up in Music but now appears under Audiobooks/
iTunes 12 Audiobook Creation
