Thanks. Have the instructions and now doing. Works quiet well.
On 6/29/2012 3:44 PM, pat h - oh wrote:
I'm not sure but I think I can help. I rip audiobooks to iTunes all the time. After the cd shows up in iTunes, hold down the Control key and the A to select all the tracks. Then click on Advanced at the top of the iTunes screen and Join Tracks. This puts all the tracks in the disk into one long track. Then Click on Advanced again and Submit Track Names. A new dialog box appears and fill in the information for Artist, Album and Genre. Be sure to list the correct Genre. If you use Books, the files will stay at the top of the music section. Be sure to number each disk under Album with the correct number. That keeps the disks in the correct order. Use 01, 02, etc. because if you have more than 9 disks, number 10 will go to the top of the list if you just use 9 instead of 09. I use 01, 02, etc. even if there are less than 9 disks because it is just a habit by now.
Once all the disks are ripped to iTunes, select all files in one audiobook and click on Get Info, then on Options. Here you can change the Genre to Audiobooks (under Media Kind) and the book will go from the music file into the books file in your iTunes library. (I leave them at the top of the music file so everything is in the same place.) Click Yes for Part of a compilation, Remember position, and Skip when shuffling. I leave Equalizer preset to None but you can fool with it if you want to. You can also set the volume here.
At first this sounds very complicated and time consuming but after a while it becomes easy and is no big deal. If you forget to join tracks, you will have a bunch of small files on that disk but they will stay in the proper order because you named the disk with a number. I haven't found a way to undo this.
HTH.
pat h - oh
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