One of the reasons that I bought an iPhone is to listen to audiobooks in mp3 format. When I discussed this objective with the salesperson at the ATT store, he pointed out that the iPod app has a separate category for audiobooks - he failed to mention, however, that this is only for books downlowded from Audible and that you can not move mp3 files into this area using iTunes. I normally listen to music while driving to work and use the shuffle feature which results in book selections being mixed in at random. This is not a great problem for audiobooks that consist of only a few files but I have severall that consist of 700+ files and that gets to be a pain when listening to music using the shuffle feature. I realize that I can create playlists that exclude the audiobooks but I would prefer to be able to manage them separately. My son has indicated that it is possible to convert mp3 files to acc format, rename them to an m4b extension and move them to the audiobooks folder on a jailbroken phone. This seems like a lot of trouble and I would prefer not to jailbreak my phone before the upcoming softare update which I assume will undo the jailbreakng. I would greatly appreciate any suggestions for alternatives for managing audiobooks, including alternative mp3 players that may be available for the phone, with or without jailbreaking. Is there any indication that this issue may be addressed in the upcooming upgrade? Thanks Bob Martin archived from misc.phone.mobile.iphone

On Apr 22, 11:03=A0pm, Bob Martin <rcmarti...@bellsouth.net> wrote: > One of the reasons that I bought an iPhone is to listen to audiobooks > in mp3 format. =A0When I discussed this objective with the salesperson > at the ATT store, he pointed out that the iPod app has a separate > category for audiobooks - he failed to mention, however, that this is > only for books downlowded from Audible and that you can not move mp3 > files into this area using iTunes. > > I normally listen to music while driving to work and use the shuffle > feature which results in book selections being mixed in at random. > This is not a great problem for audiobooks that consist of only a few > files but I have severall that consist of 700+ files and that gets to > be a pain when listening to music using the shuffle feature. > > I realize that I can create playlists that exclude the audiobooks but > I would prefer to be able to manage them separately. > > My son has indicated that it is possible to convert mp3 files to acc > format, rename them to an m4b extension and move them to the > audiobooks folder on a jailbroken phone. =A0This seems like a lot of > trouble and I would prefer not to jailbreak my phone before the > upcoming softare update which I assume will undo the jailbreakng. > > I would greatly appreciate any suggestions for alternatives for > managing audiobooks, including alternative mp3 players that may be > available for the phone, with or without jailbreaking. =A0Is there any > indication that this issue may be addressed in the upcooming upgrade? > > Thanks > > Bob Martin BS I have over a hundred GB of audio book files I created myself from various sources. Select any group of files that make up an audio book in mp3 format and right click, select INFO. On the tab that says OPTIONS change it from Music to Audio Book. If you have big 20 to 35 minute files add the remember playback position so the iPod/iPhone/ or iTunes will remember where you are in the book with an automatic bookmark. If your audio book is a zillion little files of a couple of minutes each use a SMART PLAY LIST with the PLAY COUNT=3D0 attribute in it, as soon as you finish a track the Apple software drops it from view as it no longer is a member of that playlist. When you sync it will not take up room on the portable device since a played file doesn't match that smartplay list attirbute and will be deleted if on the device You can listen to it on your PC then sync to the iPhone and pick up in the exact same place on the iPhone. Works with any audio recording. Also Audio book MP3s modified this way show up under Audio books in iTunes and the iPod, no longer as MUSIC. Send me $20 for saving you some money. I want to be able to buy Larry a beer when I drive though SC. Vic archived from misc.phone.mobile.iphone

By the way Bob there is another attribute in OPTIONS for each file while you have them all selected - DO NOT SHUFFLE. That way your aduio book will paly in order. Also in iTunes sort the book to the proper order by clicking on the column headers in a Play list before syncing that book to the iPhone. If you are using a smart play list you can set only include checked items for it and that way you can drop parts you have already heard by unchecking them in the playlist. Use dynamic smart play lists to manage your files. Smart Play lists are a feature that makes the iPod so much better than all that other crap out there. You are doing yourself a disservice by not using their power. archived from misc.phone.mobile.iphone

"Bob Martin" <rcmartinjr@bellsouth.net> wrote in message news:8llvu4l8um9es9i9nafao7s4cnvtlmgvfi@4ax.com... > One of the reasons that I bought an iPhone is to listen to audiobooks > in mp3 format. When I discussed this objective with the salesperson > at the ATT store, he pointed out that the iPod app has a separate > category for audiobooks - he failed to mention, however, that this is > only for books downlowded from Audible and that you can not move mp3 > files into this area using iTunes. > > I normally listen to music while driving to work and use the shuffle > feature which results in book selections being mixed in at random. > This is not a great problem for audiobooks that consist of only a few > files but I have severall that consist of 700+ files and that gets to > be a pain when listening to music using the shuffle feature. > > I realize that I can create playlists that exclude the audiobooks but > I would prefer to be able to manage them separately. > > My son has indicated that it is possible to convert mp3 files to acc > format, rename them to an m4b extension and move them to the > audiobooks folder on a jailbroken phone. This seems like a lot of > trouble and I would prefer not to jailbreak my phone before the > upcoming softare update which I assume will undo the jailbreakng. > > I would greatly appreciate any suggestions for alternatives for > managing audiobooks, including alternative mp3 players that may be > available for the phone, with or without jailbreaking. Is there any > indication that this issue may be addressed in the upcooming upgrade? > > Thanks > > Bob Martin http://www.freeipodsoftware.com/dow... Drag all your audiobook mp3's into this and convert them into one, MPEG-4 Audio file, that iTunes and your iPhone will recognise as an audiobook. archived from misc.phone.mobile.iphone

"Apple: One Billion iPhone App Downloads..." <vic.healey@gmail.com> wrote in message news:0c6c5c5a-7d20-4671-8d04-35f5f5188c47@u8g2000yqn.googlegroups.com... I have over a hundred GB of audio book files I created myself from various sources. Select any group of files that make up an audio book in mp3 format and right click, select INFO. On the tab that says OPTIONS change it from Music to Audio Book. If you have big 20 to 35 minute files add the remember playback position so the iPod/iPhone/ or iTunes will remember where you are in the book with an automatic bookmark. If your audio book is a zillion little files of a couple of minutes each use a SMART PLAY LIST with the PLAY COUNT=0 attribute in it, as soon as you finish a track the Apple software drops it from view as it no longer is a member of that playlist. When you sync it will not take up room on the portable device since a played file doesn't match that smartplay list attirbute and will be deleted if on the device Also Audio book MP3s modified this way show up under Audio books in iTunes and the iPod, no longer as MUSIC. Send me $20 for saving you some money. I want to be able to buy Larry a beer when I drive though SC. Vic I did this with 20 .mp3 audio files. Itunes crashed, I got "could not synch with Iphone" error messages, had to reboot Iphone, and Itunes, and finally when it all came back on, all those audio files are now gone from my phone. I do have backups, but wondering why this worked for you and not me? -- JK www.MyConeyIslandMemories.com archived from misc.phone.mobile.iphone

On Apr 26, 1:23=A0pm, "JKconey" <theconeyisland...@gmail.com> wrote: > "Apple: One Billion iPhone App Downloads..." <vic.hea...@gmail.com> wrote= in > messagenews:0c6c5c5a-7d20-4671-8d04-35f5f5188c47@u8g2000yqn.googlegroups.= com... > > I have over a hundred GB of audio book files I created myself from > various sources. > > Select any group of files that make up an audio book in mp3 format and > right click, select INFO. > > On the tab that says OPTIONS change it from Music to Audio Book. If > you have big 20 to 35 minute files add the remember playback position > so the iPod/iPhone/ or iTunes will remember where you are in the book > with an automatic bookmark. If your audio book is a zillion little > files of a couple of minutes each use a SMART PLAY LIST with the PLAY > COUNT=3D0 attribute in it, as soon as you finish a track the Apple > software drops it from view as it no longer is a member of that > playlist. When you sync it will not take up room on the portable > device since a played file doesn't match that smartplay list attirbute > and will be deleted if on the device > > Also Audio book MP3s modified this way show up under Audio books in > iTunes and the iPod, no longer as MUSIC. > > Send me $20 for saving you some money. I want to be able to buy Larry > a beer when I drive though SC. > > Vic > > =A0 =A0 I did this with 20 .mp3 audio files. Itunes crashed, I got "could= not > synch with Iphone" error messages, had to reboot Iphone, and Itunes, and > finally when it all came back on, all those audio files are now gone from= my > phone. I do have backups, but wondering why this worked for you and not m= e? > > -- > JKwww.MyConeyIslandMemories.com If you were looking for the files in your music section of iTunes they will not be there now. They are Audio books and they will be in the Audio book tab. If you do not see that one you need to go into settings and enable it. Also if you do not have artwork for your audio book and iTunes can not find some for you, while you have all your book files selected for a book do an INFO and look at the first tab. One the lower right there is a spot for artwork. In a decent browser like FireFox do a Google image search with -- "my audio book name in quotes" audio book--. Usually a cover image for you audio book will be the first image displayed. Right click on it and select COPY then go to that little window in iTunes and select PASTE then OK/ It will ask you if you want to change multiple items and you say yes and wait for it to happen. When making an audio book out of existing MP3 or AAC files gptp the OPYIONS tab and select all type -audio book compilation - yes remember playback position- yes***** the most important option as this makes it a book markable file which is not a music fill but an audio book file in Applese! gap less album-yes ***important if you have a lot of small files making up and audio book for smooth reading but in most cases you can not notice the difference. Do not shuffle - yes ***what idiot would listen to an audio book shuffled - this prevents that from happening. If you are changing all that and adding artwork select options first then drop the image before OK If your audio book seems to have more than one cover sheet then there is an error in the data tags for one or more of you files that makes up the audio book. Possibly different spelling on a tag item for artist composer, album name, or something like that so iTunes will think that particular CD is different from all the rest. ki4je archived from misc.phone.mobile.iphone

Yup did all you suggested and still had the major crash, and files gone. Will try again... -- "When you win, nothing hurts".... Joe Namath JK www.MyConeyIslandMemories.com archived from misc.phone.mobile.iphone