orev said:
My main issue is that audiobooks appear to not be organizable at all. Do all audiobooks always come as just 1 large file with the whole book? Somehow I doubt that. Seems to be a pretty big oversight.
I can always go through the "Music/Genres/" menu to get to them, and that seems to sort correctly.
Orev,
More info is needed to help you. How are you creating the audio books? Are you using join tracks for each CD? Tell us briefly how and what you are converting and how you are naming. If you use join tracks, you are combining the tracks and losing their identity in the process. They will be sequential, but the individual track identification is lost. If you want each track preserved as a file, you will have to Covert the CD files individually without joining tracks and identify each track with a unique name and with some manner of organizing or association with the CD disc number. This can be done for the entire CD by not joining tracks, highlighting all the tracks, and R click, Convert to AAC. You will most likely wind up with m4a music files that are identified only as Track 01, Track 02, etc. You will have to Key in the song name of each as you go along.
Then you will probably want to create a smart playlist to contain these many files for your audio book.
When you say all jumbled up, do you mean in random order or merged into sequential orger into one file?
It is a personal preference, but I can't imagine going to all the trouble to create and keep up, and organize so many files. Audible.com comes with built in divisions which you can progress thru with
>. Interesting that there are those who insist on one file per book -- just the opposite of your preference -- and that runs up against the max approx 5 hour homemade file length. BTW, I am 3:47 into listening to
The Road, a 6:39 homemade audio, and have only had one incident, which may have been an inadvertent bump of
>. It skipped out of the book and increased play count 1.