Go to iTunes > Preferences > Advanced > Importing (Mac) or Edit > Preferences > Advanced > Importing (Windows). Almost all audiobooks are recorded in mono and at a smaller bitrate, so there is no loss of quality with lower setting, just a saving of hard drive space. Set iTunes Preferences: There is no need to transfer these books with the high audio settings of regular music. Here are the steps to import an audiobook from CDs into iTunes (ver. Everything works except for the chapter stops, which there is a way to do using an apple script designed for podcast formatting but it’s not important to me, so I don’t bother.
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I should say “didn’t work as well as downloading it”, because thanks to some research and experimentation, I’ve learned how to import an audiobook into iTunes and make it work like a real audiobook. It’s entirely possible to import an audiobook into iTunes (and thereby on your iPod) but it’s a pain and it doesn’t work as well as just downloading it. When you import each CD in iTunes, the online database provides suggestions on the titles and such, but there are often many choices and most are not compatible with each other. Each track of an audiobook is like a separate song, so even a small audiobook will have a hundred tracks, making them unwieldy (my Lord of the Rings audiobooks have over 1,000 tracks). It saves and treats the files as regular song files, so none of the above applies. The problem with this is that when you use iTunes to import an audiobook from CDs the program thinks it is a music album, not a recorded book. Downloaded audiobooks do all this, are split into only a few separate files (part 1, part 2, etc) and you can do other things like play them faster or slower. With audiobooks, if you return to one you had been listening to and then paused to play a few songs, you pick right back up where you left off.
With regular songs if you pause while listening to one song and go to another, when you go back to that first song you start at the beginning of it again. The are automatically placed in their own section entitled “Audiobooks” in both iTunes and the iPod, and the files are “bookmarkable”. Audiobooks downloaded from iTunes or from Audible are recognized and treated differently than regular music files. I’m talking about the ones you import from your own audiobook CDs, not the downloaded ones. One of my pet peeves with the iPod and iTunes was the way it handled imported audiobook files. Since I’m on the subject of audiobooks and iPods…
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