Hi everyone,
I've been reading the forums here at iLounge for a while and have found them to be quite helpful. But now I find that I have a few questions that I haven't been able to find the answers to.
I have many audiobooks on CD which I'd like to import into iTunes (version 7) and thus onto my iPod (5th Gen. Video). I have already imported many audiobooks but just the "regular" way, meaning they show up as Music. Now I'd like to go a step further and "reclassify" them as audiobooks. I read through the sticky at the top that talks about how to do this, but I'm wondering if I really need the bookmarking feature. I've never tried to bookmark an audiobook and I guess I don't understand why I'd need to do it. If I don't want/need to bookmark my audiobooks, do I still need to go through all those steps in order to have it appear as an audiobook?
Also, it talks about joining the tracks. But I'd like to keep the track names. For example, I just went through a 3 disc audio book (A Christmas Carol) and made the following notes:
Disc 1
Track 1: Intro/Preface
Track 2: Stave 1: Marley's Ghost
Track 8: Stave 2: The First of the Three Spirits
Disc 2
Track 4: Stave 3: The Second of the Three Spirits
Disc 3
Track 1: Stave 4: The Last of the Three Spirits
Track 6: Stave 5: The End of It
Is there a way to do it so that I join, say, tracks 2 through 7 (of Disc 1) and then track 8 (on Disc 1) through track 3 (on Disc 2), etc.? Or is there another way to keep/add the chapter names?
I also have a couple of audio books that are on MP3 CD's. I'd like to do the same thing (with the chapter names) with those.
Finally, my husband and I share our audiobook collection but we live in different states. Since we're geographically separated, we've been importing the audiobook into iTunes, creating a playlist, and burning the playlist to a CD (or multiple CD's if the book warrants that). Then we send (snail mail) the CD's to eachother and import them into iTunes. So far it's worked out okay that way. If I change the settings in iTunes so that audiobooks show up as audiobooks (and not music) and if I'm able to keep/add the track names, can we still burn the (then presumably) m4b or aac files to CD to send to eachother?
Any other hints would be appreciated. I'm not too good at understanding what I'm doing when I read through instructions (such as the Beginners Guide Sticky) but I am good at actually following the directions and getting the expected outcome.
Thanks,
Sue
I've been reading the forums here at iLounge for a while and have found them to be quite helpful. But now I find that I have a few questions that I haven't been able to find the answers to.
I have many audiobooks on CD which I'd like to import into iTunes (version 7) and thus onto my iPod (5th Gen. Video). I have already imported many audiobooks but just the "regular" way, meaning they show up as Music. Now I'd like to go a step further and "reclassify" them as audiobooks. I read through the sticky at the top that talks about how to do this, but I'm wondering if I really need the bookmarking feature. I've never tried to bookmark an audiobook and I guess I don't understand why I'd need to do it. If I don't want/need to bookmark my audiobooks, do I still need to go through all those steps in order to have it appear as an audiobook?
Also, it talks about joining the tracks. But I'd like to keep the track names. For example, I just went through a 3 disc audio book (A Christmas Carol) and made the following notes:
Disc 1
Track 1: Intro/Preface
Track 2: Stave 1: Marley's Ghost
Track 8: Stave 2: The First of the Three Spirits
Disc 2
Track 4: Stave 3: The Second of the Three Spirits
Disc 3
Track 1: Stave 4: The Last of the Three Spirits
Track 6: Stave 5: The End of It
Is there a way to do it so that I join, say, tracks 2 through 7 (of Disc 1) and then track 8 (on Disc 1) through track 3 (on Disc 2), etc.? Or is there another way to keep/add the chapter names?
I also have a couple of audio books that are on MP3 CD's. I'd like to do the same thing (with the chapter names) with those.
Finally, my husband and I share our audiobook collection but we live in different states. Since we're geographically separated, we've been importing the audiobook into iTunes, creating a playlist, and burning the playlist to a CD (or multiple CD's if the book warrants that). Then we send (snail mail) the CD's to eachother and import them into iTunes. So far it's worked out okay that way. If I change the settings in iTunes so that audiobooks show up as audiobooks (and not music) and if I'm able to keep/add the track names, can we still burn the (then presumably) m4b or aac files to CD to send to eachother?
Any other hints would be appreciated. I'm not too good at understanding what I'm doing when I read through instructions (such as the Beginners Guide Sticky) but I am good at actually following the directions and getting the expected outcome.
Thanks,
Sue