iBooks chapter titles missing in iOS 8.4

I have the same problem on my Ipad after update to IOS 8.4 - very bad 😠

Also, is there any way to see which tracks are unplayed (as represented by a blue dot in the old app)? It's helpful in finding your place in the book if the app forgets for you.

The quick fix would probably be to change all of those files to "Media Kind = Music" on your computer - then they'd appear in the Music app again, and the titles would appear. It's what I'm doing for now for all of the audiobooks I've got with different titles/episodes rather than a sequential track order, or for audiobooks that I want in a playlist.

Send feedback to Apple about this - I hope they'll change it, but given how the Podcasts app stripped lots of playlist functionality from podcasts and that's never come back, I'm not overly optimistic about iBooks improving.

Problem is that formatting tracks as music instead of as audiobooks costs you the ability to playback at other speeds.

Lost in Asia,

I want to thank you for the media kind = music suggestion! It was just the fix for me.

Oh, I know putting the audiobooks back into Music is awful. It depends what your priority is. My "real" audiobooks, with hours in order and chapters embedded in the file, are for now remaining as Audiobooks because I'm not too bothered about chapter titles. My language lessons that depend heavily on smart playlists have all been moved renamed as music because they're utterly useless without seeing titles or playlists. Other stuff ... I'm not yet sure of. It looks like iTunes isn't actually syncing "last played" data from the iPhone, so I'm probably going to have to move lots of other stuff to Music as well, seeing as how I've got lots of smart playlists that are basically "ten most recent unplayed episodes of _____", and those are no longer renewing themselves as I play content.

I'm more and more horrified by how badly the integration into iBooks is (not) working.

Admittedly I am in a way pushing audiobooks to do what they're not supposed to do, because lots of my audiobooks are actually podcasts, but Apple messed up the Podcasts app so badly that now I use the files as audiobooks instead. Sigh.

Hey Dalekmaster

I have the same problem but have found them in my iBooks App under Audiobooks - Same functionality as previous.

So happy to have found mine - hope you have the same luck.

🙂

Try the Icon in the top right hand corner. Not exactly the same, but fingers crossed for the next version.

Mine only gives Track number rather than chapter titles, but I'm easily pleased.

For those of you that, like me, were converting Podcasts to Audiobooks so that you could listen to them at advanced speeds, there is a fix. Now instead of converting them to an audiobook, convert them to iTunes U, transfer them to your device, and play them using the iTunes U app. You will see all of the podcast information and no track numbers. This should work until Apple screws up the iTunes U app, like they did podcasts and now audiobooks.

In iTunes U, you can also speed up and slow down tracks and skip forward/backward 15 seconds.

I don't have that issue. That should just be a setting. In iTunes, click on iTunes U and in the upper right corner there is "Settings". Click on that and then select "Keep: All Episodes".

Others with this issue: beware converting your precious material to Podcasts, as it may automatically delete your 'episodes'. There is a setting to switch this, but if you're cataloguing precious data (like interviews, etc, as I am), calling these things Podcasts and having them filed and sorted according to 'broadcasts' makes no sense.

Why, Apple, do you seem to now have a policy of stripping functions from your software? Put the chapter titles back please....