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iPod shuffle Tips and Tricks | |
| Subject: | How does the shuffle recognize Audiobooks? | |
| Date: | 2005-02-15 17:36:01 | |
| From: | TomDavies | |
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I don't have any audio books, but I'd like to be able to have some tracks that don't get shuffled (e.g. classical music, or Joe's Garage).
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How does the shuffle recognize Audiobooks?
2005-02-16 01:36:48 http://www.advogato.org/person/ReadMe/ [View]
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How does the shuffle recognize Audiobooks?
2005-02-16 07:19:40 sknaster [View]
You can make a playlist that only includes songs you want to shuffle, then use that playlist as the source of your Autofill. But I don't know how to immunize a track against shuffling -- I'm not sure exactly what iTunes and iPod see in an audiobook to know that that's what it is. Anybody else?
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How does the shuffle recognize Audiobooks?
2005-02-16 16:40:44 Mindead [View]
Audiobooks have different file formats. If you buy from ITMS you get .m4b, and from Audible.com you get .aa. You can find tips on how too convert mp3s to bookmarkable files here and here.
A little tip for playing audiobooks on iPod Shuffle: I put it on top on my playlist and autofill the rest. I put it on shuffle to play music, and when I want to play the audiobook i put the switch on the back to continous play, and hit the play button 3 times to go to the top of the playlist.
Books from Audible get bookmarked 15 seconds before the point you stopped, books from iTunes in the same point. There seems to be a minor bug in the syncing of bookmarks between iTunes and iPS, sometimes it gets reverted to the previous one.
For Audiobooks this is a must feature.
If you get a call while you're listening
it can be a real pain to lose the place
where you left off.
Does the pause stay paused even if it
goes into powersave?
Just curious.