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You can finally get iTunes to see your files as audiobooks (without jumping through hoops)
I listen to a lot of audiobooks and podcasts on my iPod. Probably more than music, in fact. I love being able to learn something or get into a good story when I'm commuting.
If you have books on CD and want to listen to them on your iPod, you of course have to first rip them to MP3 or AAC. Previously, iTunes had no idea that these were audiobooks and would treat them as basic music files. You'd have to go through multiple steps to get them to be really usable as audiobooks:
- Select the tracks and choose "Get Info"
- Go to "Options"
- Set each track to "Remember playback position" and "Skip when shuffling"
- Set the genre of each track to "Audiobook" (or whatever genre you choose - you just have to be consistent)
After all that, the tracks still won't show up in the Audiobook section of iTunes or your iPod, and you can't use the special Audiobook feature of being able to speed up or slow down playback. There are workarounds, but they never seemed worth it to me.
Finally, as Lifehacker reports, it's finally the easy process it should have been from the start. Just get info on the track, go to options, and change the Media Kind to "Audiobook". (Apparently you still have to change the "Remember position" option. Like you might not want to have it know where you were in a book).
Progress!
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