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I need a ipod audio book expert to make me understand how this all works. I'm a techy and read hundreds of hours a year, audio book style, and whenever I ask my ipod friends how to do this stuff, they just shug.
From time to time I try and figure out how the hell ipod's naming and sorting system works for books. Will someone just tell me how to do this with db. I consider myself an audio book making expert, as I've been making audio books since the mp3 codec came out in 97. But I married an Mac, and she has an ipod. Anyways, here is how it works:
I have almost 2 thousand books in this format:
<number> - <artist> - <album> - <title>
I also populate correctly the ID3 tags. Because then it plays correctly in every mp3 player in the world.. in theory. Most mp3 players play things alphabetically, and since I zero pad the number, 01, 02, 03 all works well for books with less than 100 tracks when I'm in that folder.
I do populate the "audiobook" genre tag as well as some mp3 makers use this, like Sandisk for sorting out music from audiobooks in case you don't put them in the right folder.
Well good for Apple you got your own audio book format, the m4b, love it. So I convert a book from mp3 into m4b, all the id3 tags are all populated correctly, zero padded, and I put it on the ipod, go to "Audiobooks".... It's... not there. WTF?
Go to Music, and sure, they are all there... sorted alphabetically by TITLE??? AYFKM Apple? It's in your own damn audio book format, everything is populated correctly, and you're going to play my book by alphabetically by track title? And it mixed it in with everything else. How I get to it is, I go to albums and then I can sometimes play it there. Sometimes it shows up on the ipod, othertimes not.
(deep breath)
What am I doing wrong? I am being stupid, will someone just tell me what's going on and how I SHOULD be doing it.
When I try to convert a book to ipod, In db I see:
Force LC AAC
No Profile
Force HE AAC
Force HE v2
with the checkbox "Create RTP Hint"
All my books are typically 64/44/mono. Typically they are separated by chapter or whatever, so there can be hundred of tracks. (If I conjoin the files to 1 file, what sucks is when I accidentally press next, I have to spend 40 minutes holding down fastforward to get to where I used to be.) Someone tell me exactly what settings I should use, anything I should do specifically to the tags to make this place nice like it should with the ipod.
From time to time I try and figure out how the hell ipod's naming and sorting system works for books. Will someone just tell me how to do this with db. I consider myself an audio book making expert, as I've been making audio books since the mp3 codec came out in 97. But I married an Mac, and she has an ipod. Anyways, here is how it works:
I have almost 2 thousand books in this format:
<number> - <artist> - <album> - <title>
I also populate correctly the ID3 tags. Because then it plays correctly in every mp3 player in the world.. in theory. Most mp3 players play things alphabetically, and since I zero pad the number, 01, 02, 03 all works well for books with less than 100 tracks when I'm in that folder.
I do populate the "audiobook" genre tag as well as some mp3 makers use this, like Sandisk for sorting out music from audiobooks in case you don't put them in the right folder.
Well good for Apple you got your own audio book format, the m4b, love it. So I convert a book from mp3 into m4b, all the id3 tags are all populated correctly, zero padded, and I put it on the ipod, go to "Audiobooks".... It's... not there. WTF?
Go to Music, and sure, they are all there... sorted alphabetically by TITLE??? AYFKM Apple? It's in your own damn audio book format, everything is populated correctly, and you're going to play my book by alphabetically by track title? And it mixed it in with everything else. How I get to it is, I go to albums and then I can sometimes play it there. Sometimes it shows up on the ipod, othertimes not.
(deep breath)
What am I doing wrong? I am being stupid, will someone just tell me what's going on and how I SHOULD be doing it.
When I try to convert a book to ipod, In db I see:
Force LC AAC
No Profile
Force HE AAC
Force HE v2
with the checkbox "Create RTP Hint"
All my books are typically 64/44/mono. Typically they are separated by chapter or whatever, so there can be hundred of tracks. (If I conjoin the files to 1 file, what sucks is when I accidentally press next, I have to spend 40 minutes holding down fastforward to get to where I used to be.) Someone tell me exactly what settings I should use, anything I should do specifically to the tags to make this place nice like it should with the ipod.
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