iTunes 12.2 and audiobooks

When you search in iTunes, you don't see them? I only have one audio book & I had to re-import it because when I updated to 12.2, I lost my entire library (music, playlists, settings, apps, podcasts, etc). So when I re-imported the audiobook, It was in the music section. So I hi-lighted all the tracks in the audio book and right clicked and clicked Get Info and changed them from Music to Audiobooks & that did the trick for me. Maybe that'll help you.

My category of Audiobooks is still there. They still show in most views, just not by "My Audiobooks">Authors. I'll try to include a screenshot of what mine looks like. If I click the upper-right corner menu (annotation arrow #3), all views show correctly except the "authors". As you can see from the screenshot, it hows the list of authors and the bottom status menu (arrow #4) shows how many items SHOULD appear, but the window is empty.

If I view as "Audiobooks" or "Audiobook List" in arrow #3, then everything appears as it should.

You're welcome. Glad I could help--arrows curtesy of the application Skitch.

I'd be curious to know if your "Authors" view shows anything in your window. As I said, the other views work fine, just not the author's view.

Thanks for checking. At least the bug is confirmed on someone else's system/library.

By the way, I did submit the bug on their feedback page. The more people that report these, the better updates will be.

http://www.apple.com/feedback/itunesapp.html

same bug here.

Same with me.... all of a sudden BY AUTHOR is empty. It SHOWS the total time and such as if it knows they are there but you can not see them. And if you just select all audiobooks you see them all. But by author, nothing. So every QA person at Apple and all their contractors, No saw this? Or cared? Seriously? Why does this not surprise me. So yes. The latest iTunes f's up Audiobooks. You can see them all. but you can not se the author. I don't care why, it's a complete and usual screw up by Apple.

Apparent code regression - I am seeing the same issue.

same here, one would think it is not that hard of a bug to see since it was the first thing i noticed after i launched it after update

Fortunately I had iTunes 12.1 and the iTunes Library.itl and iTunes Library.xml in a backup and was able to replace these versions for the 12.2. I have everything working fine. I am really disappointed in the Apple testing. I was software test director on a large Department of Army program and iTunes 12.2 would never have passed our test plan ! ! ! ! !

Test plan? LoL!!! Why would anyone add audiobooks not bought from iBooks or iTunes? (sic) Arrogance and incompetence. I am a Sr. Software Architect with 35+ years experience developing software. But this is plain incompetence since Audiobooks is a main toolbar item and only has three sub-menus. List, Author, and Audiobooks.

It speaks to the true shortage of experienced people in the industry. The market is so stretched to find decent people, that everyone winds up lowering their standards and hiring 'bodies'.

So I have a few audiobooks ripped from CD. In the past I would go to "Type" from Get Info and change it from Music to Audiobook. Now that is no longer an option, I have a dropdown menu I can use to change "Music" to ... Music. There is only one option in the dropdown menu! How can I change a ripped MP3 (or AAC I assume) track to an Audiobook type so it goes to the right place?

Actually I have almost the opposite problem. iTunes on my laptop is showing and playing audiobooks directly, but when I put them on my iPhone, they automatically get sent to the Books app...which does not support or play audiobooks. Anyone know how to fix this?