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Just got my first iPod a couple of weeks or so ago and I have been downloading Old Time Radio shows and free books for listening to during my commute. Almost all of these are mp3 files and iTunes just installs them in the Music folder. This was just a pita when you wanted to put your music on shuffle and the next random track is chapter 8 of 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea or part 6 of a George Burns show. You get my drift. So, started my quest on moving these mp3's to the Audiobooks folder.
Well, it was no easy task. Just drag and drop 'em in the other folder? - Nope - Any directions for this in Apple's Help guides? - Nope
After reading through the links on the first 5 or 6 pages of several different google searches - and trying the cryptic responses other posers of this question had received, I had no clear answer anywhere, but there were some pointers out there. Foremost it has to be a .m4b file type. Found several places that said change the type to m4b, but none that told you how.
So below, I will give the how-to of moving files of your choosing to the Audiobooks folder of your Library. I did finally figure out 4 different methods for accomplishing this. I am going to provide the 2 best that I have found in my day and a half search so far. There is one for moving a single file. And then if you have a book with say 45 chapters and you don't want to have 45 individual files for your book, you must merge multiple files into one, and then move that single file. I created 5 files out of that 45 chapters.
There are two files you will need to download and install. Both of these come from Doug Adams. Am sure many of you long time iPod and iTune users will be aware of his site already, but to the rest of you new to this, he has a great site with over 400 scripts for iTunes. They are free, but if you find them useful, a little cash donation to Doug would be nice. I even had the occasion to e-mail him with an issue of my own doing and he responded back within half an hour. His main site is here.
The first is Make Bookmarkable v2.1 - The only other method I found to take the place of this one required a $40 app.
The second is Join Together v5.1.2 - You could accomplish the merging portion of this with Audacity, but you're going to add about 15 steps onto the total process of combining 10 files.
Well, it was no easy task. Just drag and drop 'em in the other folder? - Nope - Any directions for this in Apple's Help guides? - Nope
After reading through the links on the first 5 or 6 pages of several different google searches - and trying the cryptic responses other posers of this question had received, I had no clear answer anywhere, but there were some pointers out there. Foremost it has to be a .m4b file type. Found several places that said change the type to m4b, but none that told you how.
So below, I will give the how-to of moving files of your choosing to the Audiobooks folder of your Library. I did finally figure out 4 different methods for accomplishing this. I am going to provide the 2 best that I have found in my day and a half search so far. There is one for moving a single file. And then if you have a book with say 45 chapters and you don't want to have 45 individual files for your book, you must merge multiple files into one, and then move that single file. I created 5 files out of that 45 chapters.
There are two files you will need to download and install. Both of these come from Doug Adams. Am sure many of you long time iPod and iTune users will be aware of his site already, but to the rest of you new to this, he has a great site with over 400 scripts for iTunes. They are free, but if you find them useful, a little cash donation to Doug would be nice. I even had the occasion to e-mail him with an issue of my own doing and he responded back within half an hour. His main site is here.
The first is Make Bookmarkable v2.1 - The only other method I found to take the place of this one required a $40 app.
The second is Join Together v5.1.2 - You could accomplish the merging portion of this with Audacity, but you're going to add about 15 steps onto the total process of combining 10 files.