Audiobooks on an iPod

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I've got everything working nicely on my running iPod (a 6th gen Nano if it helps). The only thing that's bugging me is audiobooks. I have them syncing nicely from iTunes and remembering position etc. What I want it to do is remove chapters I've already listened to at next sync.

Say there are 50 chapters and I listen to chapters 1 -5 and a bit of 6, next time I sync I'd really like my iPod to only have chapters 6 - 50 on it. Is that possible? Or does Steve say no?
 
Thanks. Reading around the subject, it appears Apple's preferred option is a format where the whole book goes in one massive file. Which is a bit dumb since they are often used on devices with limited storage. Although they will play one chapter per file it's not the Steve way so they don't do it well :( I guess I should be grateful it works at all.
 
I'd like to know how you've managed to sort them in the first place. When I put mine in aduiobook it will play chapter one of one book the go to chapter one of another. I've had to put mine under music and set the genre to spoken word, which means you can't play all music on shuffle.
 
Raptor Mike said:
I'd like to know how you've managed to sort them in the first place. When I put mine in aduiobook it will play chapter one of one book the go to chapter one of another. I've had to put mine under music and set the genre to spoken word, which means you can't play all music on shuffle.
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Did you set media kind to audiobook? Not genre - its on the options page.

That should automagically also set skip when shuffling and remember playback position but if not then tick those as well. You also want to make sure all the chapters are in the same "album" so they appear under one cover.
 
Hey @Raptor Mike - I don't know if that fixed your problem but even if it did, you might want to get a copy of AudioBookBinder. It's free at the App store (dunno what the Windoze equivalent is). It takes a bunch of MP3 files and converts them to a monolithic M4B file and chucks it into iTunes with all the right tags set. If it's a big book then it splits it into chunks.

I don't really like Apple's idea of using a 500MB file when 50 X 10MB files will do the job, but I know from experience that if they want you to do something one way it's a lot easier to give in and do it that way ;)
 
JonathanRyan said:
Hey @Raptor Mike - I don't know if that fixed your problem but even if it did, you might want to get a copy of AudioBookBinder. It's free at the App store (dunno what the Windoze equivalent is). It takes a bunch of MP3 files and converts them to a monolithic M4B file and chucks it into iTunes with all the right tags set. If it's a big book then it splits it into chunks.

I don't really like Apple's idea of using a 500MB file when 50 X 10MB files will do the job, but I know from experience that if they want you to do something one way it's a lot easier to give in and do it that way ;)
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No I havent tried yet but will give it a go. Thanks :thumbs:
 
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