buckland said:
Hey Mark,
Well I have been a Mac owner for 30 years... I feel comfortable in most programs and usage. There iTunes program gets changed nearly every update and things get moved or process steps change. I have 12.5.1.21 iTunes. close to being the latest. I got a 14 CD audio book from the library and popped it in the computer (MacBook Pro).. I altered in the preferences under 'general' how it handles the voice etc.... Now then.... it imports the CD into iTunes but as a music file playlist and for the life of me I cannot see how to move it to my audio books section. I was also sure to give it a name and also "1" in the author box so I could see all sections in disk '1". So if you have any links to simple current iTunes steps... please let me know.
Well,
I've always been a Windows PC guy...but we can still be friends, right?
That settled...
When I import an audiobook CD into iTunes it treats it as a music file -- no way it can know any better. But I don't see that as a problem -- not for how i use it, anyway. iiTunes is clever enough to figure out the title of the CD and based on that it reaches out to the Internet to download "track information" -- chapter names, etc., though depending on the source there are sometimes errors.
After I get all the disks of the "book" imported I select all those tracks and edit the "info" of all to set the Genre to Audiobook. This doesn't affect how iTunes or my iPod treats the file, but it allows me to select Genre/ Audiobook in my iPod so I have only a few titles to choose from. In some cases I edit other fields of the Info for each track -- to fix errors in track information retrieved from the Internet by iTunes. That sounds like a lot of work/trouble...but it's not a big deal to me.
For sure, if you have the option of
downloading an audiobook file from your library (via
Overdrive, where appropriate), rather than borrowing CDs, that is slicker/easier. And it eliminates any nagging ethical copyright considerations, since the downloaded book automatically "expires" at the end of the checkout period. You don't have to delete it manually from your files if you want to clear your conscience.
As I said in another post, my iPod is a couple/few generations old and runs on iOS 6, so its behavior may be different than yours. My version of iTunes (for Windows) is 12.5.4.42.
I could go into more detail of what I do, but know that I don't
try to move it into an audio books section -- I let iTunes and iPod treat it as music, which works fine for me.