Thursday, May 7, 2015

Two simple tricks for your audiobooks

If you are used to listed audiobooks on your iPhone or iPod, you may encounter a couple of annoying issues with some of them.

If your audiobook comes as a set of mp3 files and not in m4b files, sometimes files restart from the beginning. There is also 15 seconds skip option missing, as well as possibility to change speed to x2 or to x0.5.

You can actually fix all these problems easily.

First, right click on your book in iTunes and choose "show info". Then go to Options tab and mark your media type as audiobook (default is music). Then also mark "Remember playback position" checkbox.



Sync your device again, and there you go.

Mind, books will no longer be shown as albums. You have to go to audiobooks menu on your iPhone/iPod. Same for iTunes, they will be listed under Books menu.