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El-Scotto · Aug 1, 2005, 03:59 PM

How can i get stuff under the audio book part for my ipod, i cant seem to find it anywhere :/

Randman · Aug 1, 2005, 08:34 PM

You have audiobooks? You have to give us info to help. We don't read minds (usually).

El-Scotto · Aug 1, 2005, 11:19 PM

ok sorry, ive got a 4th gen 20 gig....from the main menu of it, if i select 'music' scroll all the way down to the bottom of the list there is an 'Audioboooks' option. I have some foreign language audio files that id want to put there....there is nothing in itunes for audiobooks or when i plug my ipod into my mac there is no folder for it :/

Randman · Aug 2, 2005, 03:35 AM

Ah, ok.

If you get audiobooks from iTMS and/or Audible.com, they will show in the Audiobooks portions. You may be able to edit the info on a book you ripped yourself for it to show but I'm not sure exactly what it needs to be. Maybe make genre show as Audiobook.

Otherwise, create your playlists for books as you would for records. You can then either access them via playlist or the Audiobook toggle on the iPod.

B Gallagher · Aug 2, 2005, 07:44 AM

What stuff do you have that you want to get onto the iPod? These foreign language audio files, what format are they in? I know a way to get them on the AudioBooks catergory, I just need to know what file format you're working with.

El-Scotto · Aug 2, 2005, 12:40 PM

They are mp3's

B Gallagher · Aug 2, 2005, 06:24 PM

Okay.

In iTunes, go to Edit > Preferences > Importing. Choose the AAC Encoding and whatever bitrate you want. Click okay.
Import the .mp3 files into iTunes. Find them, right click on each, and choose, "Convert Selection to AAC".
Let iTunes do its thing. Once it's done, right click on the new song it just made (converted) and choose show file.
It'll say (if you have file extensions showing) song title.m4a
Change the .m4a to .m4b
Import the new .m4b file into iTunes, and delete any other version of it if you don't need them within iTunes.
Next time you sync your iPod, the .m4b file will appear in Music > Audibooks.

Enjoy, and welcome to the forums!

chasg · Feb 5, 2006, 08:09 AM

My thanks also for that tip, it'll be good to find my audiobooks in...audiobooks :-)

fyi: I used "A Better Finder Rename" contextual menu to do the extension renaming. Very efficient.

The only drag is that, when I convert MP3 files to AAC (that I can then give them .m4b extensions), I get copies of the original mp3 files in the same folder, and then I have to manually weed out the mp3 files, and then re-add the m4a files to iTunes (or am I going about this the wrong way?)

Anyways, thanks for that tip!

Chas

chabig · Feb 5, 2006, 08:35 AM

Originally Posted by chasg

The only drag is that, when I convert MP3 files to AAC (that I can then give them .m4b extensions), I get copies of the original mp3 files in the same folder, and then I have to manually weed out the mp3 files, and then re-add the m4a files to iTunes (or am I going about this the wrong way?)

That's the right way, but you can make it easier. Sort your files by kind, then just shift-click to select the entire range of mp3 files and delete them all at once. Also, don't bother changing the filenames and types manually. Use the following Applescript:
http://www.dougscripts.com/itunes/sc...kebookmarkable

Chris

chasg · Feb 6, 2006, 02:55 AM

Good tip, and great scripts, thanks for the pointer!

Chas

waterbuck · Feb 6, 2006, 02:38 PM

I have some CD's that are spoken-word material and I noticed that I could rip to AAC and "make bookmarkable" using the script from Doug Adams (see below) with one problem...

The problem was that the CD's were imported as individual tracks. iTunes would in fact place the tracks in the Audiobooks section of the iPod, but not in the order that they were in on the audio CD. i.e. it used alphabetical order for the track names. So instead of one long, bookmarkable CD, I had 8 individual short segments with the one called "End" coming before the one called "Introduction".

I found that one can deal with this at the time of ripping the CD to iTunes. After the CD shows up in iTunes, select all the songs, and go up to Advanced-->Join CD tracks. Then the import is a single track and that can be selected and made into a one-track playlist. One applies the "make bookmarkable" script to this single track and then the whole CD is a single item Audiobook.

If anyone knows how to join things that are already in iTunes, however, let me know.

The link for the free "make bookmarkable" script is here:

http://www.dougscripts.com/itunes/sc...kebookmarkable

chabig · Feb 6, 2006, 08:20 PM

You can join tracks that are already in iTunes by opening them in Quicktime Player and pasting them together into a single file. You need Quicktime Pro, I think, but then it's easy.

Chris