Tell iPod tracks are audiobooks

[Daij-Djan]

When I download an audiobook from iTMS, the iPod successfully recongnizes it as an audiobook.
Not so when I copy one of mine ripped from a CD although id3 tags equal

What to do?

[MBHockey]

iTunes doesn't have built-in a decoder for AudioBooks.

However, you can use this script (http://www.malcolmadams.com/itunes/scripts/scripts02.php?page=2#audiobooker) to rip AudioBook tracks from CDs correctly, and then sync them to your iPod.

Let us know how it goes.

[becan]

To make the ipod think a file is an audiobook, you need to change the file extention and the type of file.

use Fileinfo (http://www.versiontracker.com/dyn/moreinfo/macosx/15448)
to alter them - change the extention of the file from ".m4a" to ".m4b " (with the space after the b) and the filetype to "M4B ".

that should work.

[Las_Vegas]

The space is not necessary after the '.m4b' suffix. The filetype is optional and can easily be adjusted by selecting iTunes as the opening application.

BTW: The suffix '.m4b' is only used for Apple protected AAC audio files. If converting an AAC audio file from outside of iTunes, use the suffix '.aa' to identify it.

[becan]

i thought .m4p was for protected aac files, .m4b is audiobooks

[Las_Vegas]

m4p = protected m4a files
m4b = protected aa files

[DougAdams]

Hey. Make Bookmarkable (http://www.malcolmadams.com/itunes/scripts/ss.php?sp=makebookmarkable).