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Audiobooks tracks in iTunes 12 do not seem to be of "the same kind of media"
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<blockquote data-quote="Brooklynguy" data-source="post: 1620018" data-attributes="member: 218684"><p>Et Al:</p><p></p><p>I download a lot of audiobooks from librivox, listening to them on my iPad, iPhone and my auto sound system. Lately something has cropped up.</p><p></p><p>For instance,I downloaded all the chapters of <em>The Lodger</em> (by Marie Belloc Lowndes). In this case I downloaded their zip file and opened it in my iMac. Another way to do this, and I get the same problems, is to download the individual tracks. Either way, I get them as mp3 files. (I found their m4b files are not broken into chapters/tracks.)</p><p></p><p>I loaded the mp3 files into iTunes 12. I had iTunes create Apple Lossless versions of the tracks, deleted the mp3 tracks and used <em>Info</em> to change metadata. I changed them from<em> Music</em> to <em>Audiobook</em>. Either before or after I change them to Audiobook, I change the extension from m4a to m4b.</p><p></p><p>In the past this worked fine, but I believe this started after I upgraded to this version of iTunes.</p><p></p><p>When I attempt to access Info for the audiobook or select all the tracks, I get an error message (see below).</p><p></p><p>Why?</p><p></p><p>[ATTACH=full]21273[/ATTACH]</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Brooklynguy, post: 1620018, member: 218684"] Et Al: I download a lot of audiobooks from librivox, listening to them on my iPad, iPhone and my auto sound system. Lately something has cropped up. For instance,I downloaded all the chapters of [I]The Lodger[/I] (by Marie Belloc Lowndes). In this case I downloaded their zip file and opened it in my iMac. Another way to do this, and I get the same problems, is to download the individual tracks. Either way, I get them as mp3 files. (I found their m4b files are not broken into chapters/tracks.) I loaded the mp3 files into iTunes 12. I had iTunes create Apple Lossless versions of the tracks, deleted the mp3 tracks and used [I]Info[/I] to change metadata. I changed them from[I] Music[/I] to [I]Audiobook[/I]. Either before or after I change them to Audiobook, I change the extension from m4a to m4b. In the past this worked fine, but I believe this started after I upgraded to this version of iTunes. When I attempt to access Info for the audiobook or select all the tracks, I get an error message (see below). Why? [ATTACH=full]21273[/ATTACH] [/QUOTE]
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