Sorry if this has been answered before but I've spent several hours staring at this site and others trying to find an exact answer to my questions.
So here's the issue. I have a bunch of audiobooks on my computer and ipod, about 100 GB worth. I've been listening to them from the music section and that works fairly well, I just find the author then the book and listen. I don't really care about bookmarking, I don't switch from one book to another.
The other day I realized that I could, in Itunes, switch the media type and it would move the book into the Audiobook section so I went ahead and did this for all my books making my music section only contain music. I was so stoked...until I synced my iPod and realized that it's completely unusable this way since every chapter is listed and in order of chapter name, not all of which have the book name in the title as this wasn't a problem listening from the music section. It looks very nice on iTunes but horrible on my ipod.
So here's my question. Is it worth it to convert these thousands of files to AAC then converting the file names to m4b or am I better off just moving them back to the Music section? Mostly I want to know if I do these conversions if it will list the audiobooks in the iPod like it does in iTunes (Books alphabetically by author) or if it will continue to have all the chapters listed.
Thanks
So here's the issue. I have a bunch of audiobooks on my computer and ipod, about 100 GB worth. I've been listening to them from the music section and that works fairly well, I just find the author then the book and listen. I don't really care about bookmarking, I don't switch from one book to another.
The other day I realized that I could, in Itunes, switch the media type and it would move the book into the Audiobook section so I went ahead and did this for all my books making my music section only contain music. I was so stoked...until I synced my iPod and realized that it's completely unusable this way since every chapter is listed and in order of chapter name, not all of which have the book name in the title as this wasn't a problem listening from the music section. It looks very nice on iTunes but horrible on my ipod.
So here's my question. Is it worth it to convert these thousands of files to AAC then converting the file names to m4b or am I better off just moving them back to the Music section? Mostly I want to know if I do these conversions if it will list the audiobooks in the iPod like it does in iTunes (Books alphabetically by author) or if it will continue to have all the chapters listed.
Thanks