playing audio book on my nano, which imported via cd on my pc, it doesn't remind me where I got to in the book, whenever I play something else like music.
I have to remember where I got to myself and keep a note.
There surely must be a way of the nano remembering.
I do tick the remember me box when importing the book from iTunes.
MacBook Pro, OS X Mavericks (10.9.1)
If you imported the audiobook into your iTunes library from an external source (like a CD), iTunes may be treating the audio file as music, not audiobook. Does the audiobook appear in your iTunes Music library, or in your iTunes Audiobooks library? Songs typically do not get "bookmarked." Audiobooks do.
If this is the problem, you should change the Media Kind of the Audiobook, so that iTunes (and the iPod) treat it as an audiobook (not a song). In iTunes, right-click the audiobook on a list, and select Get Info. In the Info window, go to the Options tab. Change the setting for Media Kind to Audiobook. The item now appears in your iTunes Audiobooks library.
Re-sync the item to your iPod. If you are loading the iPod using the Manually manage setting, you'll need to first remove it manually, and then manually add it back (as an audiobook instead of a song). If you use automatic syncing, set up the iPod's Audiobooks settings screen in iTunes to sync that audiobook.
Kenichi,
thanks for the reply.
I do use the get info process and do select audio book.
this works if I just leave the audio book,close and reopen to the audio book. However, if I go into another usage such as listen to music etc then the bookmark goes.
please clarify the second part of your reply re"manually manage setting" and "automatic". I do not understand this or where this is set.
please clarify the second part of your reply re"manually manage setting" and "automatic".
The distinction is whether you load audiobooks manually (by dragging and dropping audiobooks on iPod in iTunes), or you set the iPod to Sync Audiobooks (automatic syncing).
To set up automatic syncing, select the iPod in iTunes (click its device button on horizontal bar) to show its settings screen in iTunes window. Along left side (in the sidebar), under Settings, click Audiobooks. To the right, the iPod's Audiobooks settings screen is show, where you tell iTunes how to sync audiobooks. The checkbox for Sync Audiobooks turns ON automatic syncing for audiobooks.
NOTE: When you turn this ON, you also need to use automatic syncing for music, movies, and TV shows. Any of those items (including audiobooks) currently on iPod that are not in your iTunes library (on the computer) will be lost.
You can choose to automatically sync All audiobooks. Or sync Selected audiobooks. If you choose to select, set up the rest of that screen as desired. Then click Apply. When you use this method to load audiobooks, all audiobooks are seen as audiobooks on the iPod. On the iPod (when you play the audiobook), you go through Audiobooks (instead of Music) to select the audiobook. Then you know it is being treated as an audiobook, instead of a song.
If you load the audiobooks manually (it's not set to Sync Audiobooks), that's fine. However, you need to confirm the copy of the audiobook that is currently on the iPod is being treated as an audiobook, not a song. If you select it on the iPod by going through Music), then it is being treated as a song. Manually remove that audiobook from the iPod and manually add it back from your iTunes Audiobooks library.
I already had the Audio books set up as Automatic as per your description and go through Audiobook rather than Music when I listen to an audiobook.
Presume you are saying that this should keep the bookmark?
As I said before, it does whilst I am using the device totally for Audiobook, but if I use for Music etc. then the place mark not not show.
I don't listen to audiobooks that much, but I synced one to my iPod nano. It seems to work properly. I skipped ahead in the audiobook and listened for a few seconds, then left the audiobook to play a song. When I came back to the audiobook, it was where I had stopped listening before. My iPod nano is the 5th gen model.
Also, for you, does this happen with every audiobook (have you tried using more than one audiobook)?
If you have not already, try doing a Reset (restart) of the iPod nano
Learn how to reset your iPod - Apple Support
Try again after the Reset. If that does not help, the only other suggestion I have is to do a Restore on the iPod using iTunes, in case there is a software problem or data corruption on the iPod. This erases the iPod, reinstalls its software, and sets it to default settings.
nano not remembering audio book page mark.
