# Putting commercial audiobooks on an IPod?

Category: Geeks r Us

## Post 1 by BryanP22 (Novice theriminist) on Wednesday, 05-Jan-2011 19:23:48

The title says it all. I've got some commercial audiobooks that are on CD an I'd like to put them on my IPod and have it recognize them as audiobooks. In the past I've corrected problems where a CD comes up as unknown simply by ripping it using ITunes itself. My question is that when I rip a CD from an audiobook ITunes seems to list it as a music CD. I'm wondering if there's a way to have it actually recognize it as an audiobook. In particular I'd like to put my unabridged Lord of the Rings trilogy on my IPod. So I'd like to find out if there's a way to do this.

## Post 2 by The Great Rabbit (Queen of random) on Wednesday, 05-Jan-2011 21:21:47

Once you add it to your iTunes library you can right click on the files and go to get info, and from there if you press control tab and go to the options tab it has where you can select the type of media and you select audiobook. HTH

## Post 3 by BryanP22 (Novice theriminist) on Wednesday, 05-Jan-2011 21:25:50

Hmmm, I don't think I ever thought of doing that. Guess I'll go grab one and try it now.

## Post 4 by The Great Rabbit (Queen of random) on Wednesday, 05-Jan-2011 21:28:49

Hope it works for you. That's what I've done in the past and it worked. Not sure if there's a way to tell it to sort it that way before you rip the CD's because I've never tried that but yeah.

## Post 5 by BryanP22 (Novice theriminist) on Wednesday, 05-Jan-2011 21:56:17

Well it does work. Only problem is there doesn't seem to be a way to tell it that the whole CD is an audiobook. I had to do disk 1 track by track. Gets a bit tedious with a book that's sixteen disks or more. And all three LOTR books are in that range. I tried selecting all the files on that CD after it was imported but I didn't gt the Get Info option when I hit the Context key. Only when I selected individual tracks. I just hope there's enough room on the IPod for this bok LOL. It's a 32-gig model of which 17 or so gig is still free.

## Post 6 by starfly (99956) on Thursday, 06-Jan-2011 7:56:40

thanks for posting this topic :). Hmm... I will bee using my Ipod for audeo books soon when I can and have the money to do so.

## Post 7 by BryanP22 (Novice theriminist) on Thursday, 06-Jan-2011 11:09:44

Yeah. It works great. Like I said I just wish there was a faster way to convert the tracks on a CD to audiobook. As it is I rip a CD from a book and then I have to highlight each individual track and tell ITunes that it's an audiobook. But so far the first Lord of the Rings book, which I haven't finished ripping, is taking up far less space on my IPod than I was expecting.

## Post 8 by shea (number one pulse checking chicky) on Thursday, 06-Jan-2011 12:36:25

google mp3 to ipod audio book converter. it's a free program and works easy and fast. you extract the book then put it through this and it converts to ipods format. hope this helps.

## Post 9 by blw1978 (I'll have the last word, thank you!) on Thursday, 06-Jan-2011 20:53:15

Okay, I'll try that, I have a couple CD audiobooks that I'd like to put on my 3 g Itouch when I get it from my friend and format it.

## Post 10 by BryanP22 (Novice theriminist) on Friday, 07-Jan-2011 10:30:37

I've tried those converters and never cared for them. Neither the YouTube to MP3 nor the MP3 to IPod converter actually worked for me. For one thing it misplaced files despite my specifically telling it where to put them, and even if I did find them it wasn't complete despite saying that it was.

## Post 11 by shea (number one pulse checking chicky) on Sunday, 09-Jan-2011 14:04:50

hmmm, have used it sevearl times and it works well for me. your the first i have heard say they have problems with it.

## Post 12 by BryanP22 (Novice theriminist) on Monday, 10-Jan-2011 17:20:09

Well it did that every single time I used it and on every single machine I tried it on. I'll stick to ITunes for this stuff. About my only complaint with that is that when it syncs with the IPod each audiobook is listed in its component disks, disk 1, disk 2 and whatnont on the main auiobooks section. It'd be nicer if it'd put each book in its own folder rather like it does with audible books. So you'd click on an audible book on your IPod and onlythen would you see part 1, part 2 and whatnot. THen you just clicked on part 1 to start the whole book playing. And the best part about doing it that way would be that as soon as part 1 finished playing it would automatically load part 2 and so on. I wish it'd do the same with commercial books. Not to mention the library would be a lot more convenient to navigate.

## Post 13 by LeoGuardian (You mean there is something outside of this room with my computer in it?) on Thursday, 13-Jan-2011 23:58:05

Another option:
Get a Dropbox, make folders and put your books up there.
Next, get the free Dropbox app from the Ap Store and do everything over the air.
Frankly, I use Dropbox and iDriveContacts and do as much cloudsync and as little computer sync as possible. Seems to work nicely.

## Post 14 by starfly (99956) on Friday, 14-Jan-2011 8:06:15

agreed or make a folder on your drive, move the disks over to the audeo book folder you want and sink your Ipod. I did this seem to work, it was done with the seven sun series.