ah thanks for this sounds complicated and time consuming but at least it can be done
On 25 May 2009, at 21:07, Esther wrote: > > Hi Will, > > iTunes and iPods don't really see folder structure, except in the case > of podcasts, although you can organize your playlists into folders in > the sources table of iTunes on your computer. If you import a set of > mp3 files for an audiobook into iTunes, they will appear as individual > tracks in your Music Library (i.e., no folder structure maintained). > To move them into your audiobooks library, select all tracks and use > Get Info (Command-I). You'll be prompted with a dialog window asking > are sure you want to edit multiple items. Either press carriage > return or navigate to the yes button and press it (VO-Space). If your > focus isn't in the dialog window or Get Info window, use window > chooser menu (VO-F2 twice) to select it. Navigate (VO-Right Arrow) to > the "Options" tab and select it (VO-Space). On the "Options" tab, VO- > Right arrow to the pop up button for "Media Kind". Use VO-Space to > press the pop up button then arrow down to change the selection from > "Music" to "Audiobook". Navigate (VO-Right Arrow) to the pop up > buttons for "Remember position" and "Skip when shuffling" and set > these to yes, too. These three options will: (1) move tracks to the > audiobooks library in iTunes and on your (recent model) iPod, (2) turn > bookmarking on, and (3) keep these tracks out of music shuffle play. > > If you want to keep your audiobook as multiple mp3 tracks, then the > easiest way to play them on your iPod is to use a smart playlist and > use two rules like: <Album> <contains> <name of audiobook> and <Play > count> <is> <0>. You should check that the playlist tracks appear in > the order you want. Remember that iTunes sorts alphabetically, so if > you have folders named "Disc 1", "Disc 2", etc. and beyond "Disc 10" > you might want to use leading zeros for the disc numbers -- otherwise > your audiobook volumes may have "Disc 10" and "Disc 11" appearing just > after "Disc 1" and before "Disc 2". (If you only have numbers running > from 1 through 9, or fewer, this isn't a problem.) > > Play the audiobook on your iPod Nano 4G using the smart playlist. The > live updating feature of the smart playlist means that as soon as you > finish listening to one track, its play count will increase to 1, and > it will fall off the smart playlist. The first track in the smart > playlist will always be the current (unfinished) track, and it's > position will be bookmarked when you stop listening. > > Of course, you can also find these tracks on your iPod in the album, > artist, genre, audiobooks, and other categories, too. And any tracks > you've finished listening to will also still be on the iPod -- just > not on your smart playlist. What's really slick is that if the smart > playlist is one of the playlists you sync, the next time you connect > your iPod to your computer, all the tracks you've listened to will > automatically be removed from the iPod Nano, since they no longer meet > the "Play count is 0" rule. If you want to reset the play count to 0, > just select the tracks in your iTunes songs table and use the > contextual menu (VO-Shift-M) and choose "Reset Play Count". > > For more details on making smart playlists, see the earlier post in > the archives: > > http://www.mail-archive.com/macvisionaries%40googlegroups.com/msg01294.html > (Introduction to Smart Playlists in iTunes) > > The other way to handle your audiobooks is to merge your tracks. > There's a shareware tool called Audiobook Builder ($9.95) that > automates this process, including setting the status of tracks to show > up in the Audiobooks section of iTunes/iPod. It also has other > features like support for chapter markers if you rip from CD. I think > Alex may also have a project in the works to do something like this. > > Cheers, > > Esther > > P.S. If you're interested in trying Automator, you could import > selected files into iTunes in (regular) playlists of your choice with > an Automator workflow that uses two actions: "Find Finder Items" and > "Add Songs to Playlist". The first specifies the folder or directory > to check and the second names the playlist (new or existing), and > brings the music tracks into iTunes in the specified playlist. > > On May 25, 2009, at 5:23 AM, william lomas wrote: > >> >> hi i have a book where each disc is a folder and within the folder >> are the files in mp3 pertaining to the disc. >> If I import all this folder into ITunes would an IPod nano see it as >> an artest and then each disc as a folder, under the artest, if that >> makes sense? >> Will >> Or could I just make the book appear under the "audiobooks" section >> of >> my Nano >> >> >>> > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. 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