turingtest2 wrote:
there ought not to be any reason for you to delete and reimport.
Sounds like classic apple thinking logic ("you are holding it wrong" TM). What is the "correct location" you are referring to, turingtest2? The files were correctly displayed in audiobooks. But I wanted the real files completely gone from my iTunes music folder. I use those folder in various mediacenter software and having all clumped up in one folder, is not a good idea. I want audiobooks separated. So unless you are saying, that there should be a separate audiobooks folder (outside of the iTunes music folder) where all audiobooks files are then organized, once tagged as such, I still believe we have a bug and odd behavior here. The wish to really separate the audiobook files from the music files (no matter if .m4b files or .mp3). I have zero interest and see no incentive to move any of my m4a / mp3 audiobook files to m4b - please accept this is not desired here.
New findings: ITUNESMEDIATYPE metadata tag
Interestingly enough, there indeed exists a metadata tag for exactly the information we are discussing here. As usual practice with Apple, documentation is really poor to non-existant. But here go the Values and what they stand for:
1 - Music
2 - Audiobook
6 - Music Video
9 - Movie
10 - TV Show
11 - Booklet
14 - Ringtone
But in my test, adding the tag ITUNESMEDIATYPE with Value "2" to an audiobook I am testing this with, did not have the intended result. The files still showed up in the music section.
Really frustrating.
