Ripping Audiobooks to iTunes
I am finding copying audiobooks to iTunes and then into my iPod to be rather confusing and not terribly intuitive. I am trying to copy audiobooks borrowed from the library to iTunes and then to my iPod for listening to on long drives cross country.
Is anyone willing to offer any advice?
Simple example:
1. I pop disk one of a set into my drive.
2. iTunes launches and in the main, not Source, window are three columns filled out: first column has numbers 1 to 23, the second has Track 01 to 23 and the third has the Time for each track. The Source window shows, among other items, the Audio CD I just popped in.
3. After choosing the preferences for importing, what is the best choice for the next step?
If I go to File > Import, then navigate to the Audio CD, I get a list of the tracks on the Audiobook CD, but I can only highlight one at a time, so I presume this is not the way to go as it would requiring a separate File > Import action to import each and every track...a major time waster.
Another possibility I see would be to create a New Playlist which would appear in the Source window. I could then do a Select All of the Tracks in the iTunes main window and drag and drop them to the new Playlist.
Another possibility is File > Add to the library.
Which of these would be best??
Thanks,
bob
Here's a good resource.
http://aldoblog.com/audiobooks/
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