Newbe questions

[IpodAlien]

Hi
I just have a few questions about audible with the iPod. When books are transfered, are they put in a folder on the pod called Audible or something or just mixed in with the music. Also do you set bookmarks from the iPod or just skip forward through sections and move forward 5 seconds at a time to find the spot if you lose it.

Finally, and importantly, does anyone use Xplay to transfer songs and the Audible manager to transfer books? Xplay recomend users to do it that way but I wondered how reliable it was?

[Podunk]

If you read the Audible guide in the first post in this forum, and the followup posts in that thread, it answers all of your questions, including making playlists, bookmarking and how to navigate your files quickly and easily.

[IpodAlien]

It was where the files appeared that I really wasn't sure about. Is there a way to change the artest to Audible so that there all in one place not using Itunes? I use Xplay and Audible manager.

[dordale]

IpodAlien--

**Assuming Windows PC--not sure if following applies to Mac as well**

Once you have your audible files in iTunes, you can right click on them and choose "Get info". Under the info tab, you can change the name, artist, and album tags. I recommend changing the album tag to "audible" rather than the artist tag. That way, the author will still appear under the artist tag.

Happy podding :)
dordale

WHOOPS!!--sorry--didn't read your post thoroughly enough--missed the "not using iTunes" part. I don't know if there is a way to do this with x-play as I've never used it. I think you can change the tag information of audible files with ephPod, but I'm not 100% sure.

[Podunk]

Originally posted by IpodAlien
It was where the files appeared that I really wasn't sure about. Is there a way to change the artest to Audible so that there all in one place not using Itunes? I use Xplay and Audible manager.

Easiest way to see them all in one place using iTunes is to make a Smartlist. (See the link in the guide above on how to make a Smartlist if you don't know how yet).

Then, you can highlight all of them, right click and select GET INFO, and enter Audible in the Album field. (The Album field is blank so its better to use that than overwrite the Author.

But if you make a smartlist, thats really all you need to get all your Audible files together.