Audiobook sorting/duplicates STILL broken

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Audiobook sorting/duplicates STILL broken

We are now onto iTunes v 12.7.4.x and after all this time, this known bug is STILL preventing Audiobooks from being correctly displayed or sorted.

Does Apple have any interest in fixing this? This was a known issue last year. Should I give up on iTunes for my library needs?

(on the off-chance there is anyone still unfamiliar with this bug, under the grid view, some Audiobooks appear as randomly duplicated (they are not actually duplicated - they just show up multiple times in the view) and sorting does not work in any functional or logical manner)

iMac, macOS Sierra (10.12.6), iTunes 12.7.4.80

Posted on May 22, 2018 6:17 PM

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turingtest2

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Jun 13, 2018 3:16 PM in response to jhillwine

jhillwine wrote:

Not sure what "Apple sell single track audiobooks" means or what it has to do with an iTunes fix of the sorting and grouping issue with Grid View.

It perhaps explains how the bug slipped through testing when it was first introduced into iTunes, although not why they have chosen not to fix it having been made aware of it. It has also been there on older iPods for as long as I've been using them, over 10 years at least. Perhaps more feedback from affected users is required. In the meantime the workaround scripts that I've made for both Mac & Windows still work,

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turingtest2

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May 24, 2018 12:09 PM in response to Patrick Clarke

While you wait for fix see Organizing audiobook chapters. With the right metadata it is no longer a problem.

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turingtest2

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May 26, 2018 11:22 AM in response to Patrick Clarke

Apple sell single track audiobooks. A sample library of those will work perfectly for internal testing. I've updated the tip to indicate that the current build no longer allows the Author by Author workaround.

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May 26, 2018 10:14 AM in response to turingtest2

Thank you for your reply tt2. The Author-Author sort trick does not work; the second Author sort is greyed out and not selectable when the first Author sort is selected.

If I get desperate, I will attempt to create the script you have developed - but don't you find it disturbing that Apple has not created a fix for this very, very basic problem yet? It feels like they are simply asleep at the wheel.

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Jun 13, 2018 2:32 PM in response to turingtest2

Not sure what "Apple sell single track audiobooks" means or what it has to do with an iTunes fix of the sorting and grouping issue with Grid View.

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Audiobook sorting/duplicates STILL broken

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