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The shorter files were still playable by an iPhone.

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I spent some time tracking down the problem: Audible had switched to a new default audio format that, at the time, the Music app on the iPhone could not play.Īt that time, there was a relatively simple-but-annoying work-around: Audible still offered to download audiobooks in multiple parts.

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Problem solved, but it meant that every time I purchased a new audiobook, I had to go through this manual procedure to listen to it.Īnother time, after I finished getting to the end of one book, my iPhone skipped a couple of books before playing one further down the playlist. If I manually changed it to “Music” as I show in the image, they would be synced into the Music app on the iPhone. The “media kind” for the many of my audiobook files, and for all of my newer ones, was set to “Audiobook”. This is the dialog box I got when I selected one of my new audiobooks, hit Command-I (for “Get Info”) and clicked on the Options tab: aa, so iTunes always assumed that this was an audiobook file. Audible had changed the file type for their audiobooks to. The issue was the “media kind” that iTunes had assigned my audiobook files. Why is this a problem? Why not just listen to my audiobooks on iBooks? We’ll get to that below. But according to Apple, an audiobook is a “book.” So instead of transferring the audiobooks to a music playlist (where I had put them), it transferred the audiobooks into iBooks. OK, whatever compete with Amazon Kindle and see how far that gets you.

It took a while to figure out what happened: Apple, in its infinite wisdom, made the decision to create an iBooks app for the iPhone. One time, I put an audiobook into my book playlist on iTunes… and it didn’t sync into the corresponding playlist on my iPhone. I created a playlist of the audiobooks I wanted to listen to, and synchronized that playlist from my Mac to my iDevice. I downloaded them into my iPod, and later my iPhone, by loading the files into iTunes. In ancient times (namely the 2000s), audiobooks came as. Rowling, read by Jim Daleįor all of the above, my appreciation comes from the quality of the performance by the reader.

Anansi Boys by Neil Gaiman, read by Lenny Henry.

The Fourth Bear by Jasper Fforde, read by Simon Vance.

The Big Over Easy by Jasper Fforde, read by Simon Prebble.

For the record, my favorite audio books are: Do they? We’ll get to that.Īs with regular books, I enjoy listening to new books, books I’ve read before but would like to listen to, and favorite audiobooks that I listen to again and again. One would hope that Audible would appreciate that. For the purposes of this #FirstWorldProblems post, I’ll allow myself to assume that I have hundreds of audiobooks.Īt roughly $15-$25 per book, it’s a substantial investment over the years. You’ve probably noticed that many of these audiobooks are in multiple parts, so I don’t actually have 541 distinct books. I’ve circled on the part to focus on first: While the picture only shows the first 31 files in my audiobook collection, I have a total of 541 audiobook files… for now.

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There’s a lot to unpack from this picture, including why I don’t want to upgrade from Mojave.