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No longer able to edit meta data in Audio Books in Catalina ?
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<blockquote data-quote="Rod" data-source="post: 1835171" data-attributes="member: 204485"><p><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="font-family: 'arial'">Thanks Bob, that's really handy, I had not yet found that page. Ive made a copy of it for future reference.</span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="font-family: 'arial'">Ian, I read your linked article too and I can see how some of the ideas mentioned might be helpful but there are drawbacks using iTunes for AudioBooks like, "<span style="color: #3A3A3A">Music app has no support for embedded chapters. So if you have an audiobook in a single audio file with embedded chapters (as I do for certain ones I’ve created), there’s no way to navigate it".</span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="font-family: 'arial'"><span style="color: #3A3A3A">In a ideal world Books would have retained similar options as the Music app but alas that is not the case.</span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="font-family: 'arial'"><span style="color: #3A3A3A">My wife and I are members of our local library in Australia. Linked to that library is Bolinda </span><span style="color: #3a3a3a">Audio which is a data base that allows members to "borrow" books in audio format. Sometimes the books do not contain all of the meta data and some none at all.</span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="font-family: 'arial'"><span style="color: #3a3a3a">In the past my wife would import these files to iTunes/Music and using the Get Info command she could batch edit the files as part of a collection with chapter/track numbers, Author, Title, published date etc.</span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="font-family: 'arial'"><span style="color: #3a3a3a">When one opens the Books app for the first time it imports all of the Audio Books from Music. When my wife did this two of the books were shown as a series of individual tracks numbered 1-whatever with "No Name" as the title.</span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="font-family: 'arial'"><span style="color: #3a3a3a">The only way to sort them in Books is to create a playlist and name that.</span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="font-family: 'arial'"><span style="color: #3a3a3a">The other thing we noticed was how difficult it was to select more than one line in Tile view however List view overcomes this.</span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="font-family: 'arial'"><span style="color: #3a3a3a">In the past when this happened it was simply a matter of selecting all the seperate tracks together and editing Title, Author and Year in one go. </span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="font-family: 'arial'"><span style="color: #3a3a3a">This is something we got used to back in the days when Talking Books were on disks. I imagine in the future this will be less of a problem for my wife but it will continue to be an issue for some as explained in Ian's link.</span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="font-family: 'arial'"><span style="color: #3a3a3a">The introduction of this new app has removed flexibility and functionality rather than enhancing or much improving what we had before and that seems to be a general observation of macOS upgrades. </span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="font-family: 'arial'"><span style="color: #3a3a3a">Everything works perfectly if you work within Apple's expectations eg. buy/download your music, movies, books, apps, games from Apple or approved portals but stray outside the expectations and it is becoming increasingly difficult to adapt native apps to cope. These days we have to look to 3rd party apps </span></span><span style="color: #3A3A3A"><span style="font-family: 'arial'">(so long as they are 64bit now)</span></span></span><span style="font-family: 'arial'"><span style="color: #3a3a3a"><span style="font-size: 12px"> to make adaptions/alterations or add functionality for example, I don't know how I'd manage with VLC Player so why not a better version of QuickTime?</span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'arial'"><span style="color: #3a3a3a"></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'arial'"><span style="color: #3a3a3a"></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'arial'"><span style="color: #3a3a3a"></span></span></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Rod, post: 1835171, member: 204485"] [SIZE=3][FONT=arial]Thanks Bob, that's really handy, I had not yet found that page. Ive made a copy of it for future reference. Ian, I read your linked article too and I can see how some of the ideas mentioned might be helpful but there are drawbacks using iTunes for AudioBooks like, "[COLOR=#3A3A3A]Music app has no support for embedded chapters. So if you have an audiobook in a single audio file with embedded chapters (as I do for certain ones I’ve created), there’s no way to navigate it". In a ideal world Books would have retained similar options as the Music app but alas that is not the case. My wife and I are members of our local library in Australia. Linked to that library is Bolinda [/COLOR][COLOR=#3a3a3a]Audio which is a data base that allows members to "borrow" books in audio format. Sometimes the books do not contain all of the meta data and some none at all. In the past my wife would import these files to iTunes/Music and using the Get Info command she could batch edit the files as part of a collection with chapter/track numbers, Author, Title, published date etc. When one opens the Books app for the first time it imports all of the Audio Books from Music. When my wife did this two of the books were shown as a series of individual tracks numbered 1-whatever with "No Name" as the title. The only way to sort them in Books is to create a playlist and name that. The other thing we noticed was how difficult it was to select more than one line in Tile view however List view overcomes this. In the past when this happened it was simply a matter of selecting all the seperate tracks together and editing Title, Author and Year in one go. This is something we got used to back in the days when Talking Books were on disks. I imagine in the future this will be less of a problem for my wife but it will continue to be an issue for some as explained in Ian's link. The introduction of this new app has removed flexibility and functionality rather than enhancing or much improving what we had before and that seems to be a general observation of macOS upgrades. Everything works perfectly if you work within Apple's expectations eg. buy/download your music, movies, books, apps, games from Apple or approved portals but stray outside the expectations and it is becoming increasingly difficult to adapt native apps to cope. These days we have to look to 3rd party apps [/COLOR][/FONT][COLOR=#3A3A3A][FONT=arial](so long as they are 64bit now)[/FONT][/COLOR][/SIZE][FONT=arial][COLOR=#3a3a3a][SIZE=3] to make adaptions/alterations or add functionality for example, I don't know how I'd manage with VLC Player so why not a better version of QuickTime?[/SIZE] [/COLOR][/FONT] [/QUOTE]
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