Audio book chapters won't sort in order

I'm downloading a book and either in audio book format or as music, I cannot get the chapters to sort in order on my iPod. They sort in order in iTunes, but when I download them to the iPod, they come in reverse order. That really doesn't do it for me when I'm driving and listening!

Hi, welcome to Apple Discussions.
See http://samsoft.org.uk/iTunes/grouping.asp
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I import a lot of Audio Book CDs into my iPod Touch for convenience.
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The Ipod just seems to shuffle playing order. I have disabled shuffle. The iPod is not automatically shuffling due to shaking.
How do I get the tracks to play in the correct orderr.

Here are some hints and guidelines for labeling and organizing audiobooks in iTunes.
Click on the first file of the audiobook imported files list. Press and hold down the “Shift” key while doing so. While you continue to hold this key down, press the down arrow on your keyboard repeatedly until all of the files (chapters) for the first audiobook are selected. At the last file of the first audiobook, click your left mouse button once. You will see all the files from the first to last file highlighted.
Go back into the “File” menu on iTunes and click on “Get Info.” This will bring up a menu of settings you can apply to the highlighted files. Click on the “Options” tab in the settings menu that appears. Make sure the media type is selected as “audiobook.” Next to “Remember position” the option of “Yes” should be indicated.
Next you’ll want to properly label the audiobook audio files. Click on the “Info” tab and fill out relevant information you want to include on the filenames for easy access. Under “album name” put the name of the book and under “artist name” put the name of the author.
Save the settings. Click on “Audiobooks” in the long left hand side menu in iTunes. This should be in the upper left hand area. You will see a list of your newly renamed audiobook files to the right hand side.
Right click on each file individually starting with the first file of the audiobook. Click “Get Info” and under the “Name” section enter “Chapter 01” and repeat this process for each track going in order changing the chapter number by one number higher each time. Chapters 1 through 9 must have a zero before the primary number such as Chapter 01 and Chapter 09.
When you are finished the audiobook will not only be in the proper track order which allows you to play the chapters in order, but the audiobook will be labeled and easy to find.
Read more: http://www.bukisa.com/articles/224607_how-to-import-audiobooks-into-itunes#ixzz0 mL9zw9wF

Since I've updated to iOS 6 I am unable to use the next/back buttons from Headphone for audio book chapters.

Since I've updated from iOS 5 to iOS 6 I am unable to use the next/back buttons from Headphone for audio book chapters.
This is working fine for albums but are broken for audio books.
The back button refers always to the first chapter of the audio book (very annoying if you are in the middle of an audio book) and the nex button goes one level higher back to the selection of the audio book itself.
In iOS 5.0 it was still possible to navigate throught the audio book chapters using these buttons.
This still happens in iOS 6.1.
Is this a known bug?
Does any solution exist?
Thx,
Oliver

To gdgmacguy your a f****** idiot for one I'm having the same problem as pennymar. And you tell me to quit whinning. You got more problems then the iOS 6 you did not answer my question nor the other 13 or whatever you replied to within a 30 min time frame. You must got nothing better to do then to harass people and to pretend you know something about apple products. Which you don't from what I've read the other advices you should have gave to other people. But you didn't you replied a question back to the people asking a question. So if your not gonna use these community forums the right way don't use them at all.

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I have been having this issue for years with no resolve. I import audio books into itunes, and they are in order. I then move them to my ipod and they are out of order. ANY HELP?? PLEASE? I see people have posted this problem all over for years but I see no resolution.

I had the same problem as you and what was causing it was that the sort fields were not the same for each track. So the tracks that had the same info in their sort fields were grouped together when they transferred to my iphone.
I know that might not make things clear. Here's what you can do to fix it.
In itunes, select all the tracks of the audiobook, then hit Command-I to open up the Get Info/Multiple Item Information window.
There should be four tabs: Info, Video, Sorting, Options. Click on the Info tab first. Any fields that are empty are either fields that were never entered when you burned the disc OR they could be fields that are not the same for each track. If it's the latter, that will be a big problem. The only fields you want different between tracks are the "Disc ___ of X" and "Track ___ of X" fields. The fix here is to put in something into each field. But don't hit "OK" yet.
Next click on the Sorting tab and fill in something for each field because any differences here will also cause you headaches when you tranfer over to the ipod. So fill in information in each field. Now hit okay.
If you've done it right, the software will be forced to look at the "Disc ___ of X" field when transferring the files over to your ipod and the tracks will be in the right order.

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Can anyone tell me where the chapters went for the audio books in the Music App on mt iPad? Works fine on my iPhone 4s.
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Log into your Itune account. Go to purchase history which shows all of your purchase date and order number and what you bought. Send itune cusomer service to ask them to restore those particular order numbers for audio books. They will restore those for you to download again. Audiobook has tendacied not to be shown on iTune as I have no problem for other song and movie purchases.

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On my iTouch my current audio book shows 9 chapters with really odd track times like 23 min 17 min etc The book is many hours long.
On iTunes it says 5 chapters
To top that the book has many chapters as I'm on 51 now.
nothing matches at all. If I forget my spot when I go back the numbers on the iTouch it makes no sense. It will be chapter 35 the iTouch will say it is the second of five, but it shows 9 tracks and the first two only add up to 30 minutes
There is no way to tell where you are, if you change apps.

Thank you for taking the time and trouble to reply, Santo!
I tried your suggestion, but it didn't seem to help, but then I noticed something that I hadn't noticed before. Half of the discs were titled "Disc XXX" and the other half were titled "Disk XXX". (Notice the spelling of "Disc" vs. "Disk".) Once I made the spelling uniform, everything was fine.
Thanks again!
Judie

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Thank you for taking the time and trouble to reply, Santo!
I tried your suggestion, but it didn't seem to help, but then I noticed something that I hadn't noticed before. Half of the discs were titled "Disc XXX" and the other half were titled "Disk XXX". (Notice the spelling of "Disc" vs. "Disk".) Once I made the spelling uniform, everything was fine.
Thanks again!
Judie

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Copy them from the old computer, along with all your other content so that you don't waste bandwidth downloading it.
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I'd love pointers to tutorials or tips regarding how to organize audiobooks. I ripped an audiobook that resulted in 60 different chapter files. My itunes is a wreck because of all the small files.
Is there a way to group them to one file and not have them clutter up the main list of audio book files?
Is there a way to put all those little files into a playlist and not have them show is the main list of audiobook files?
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See http://samsoft.org.uk/iTunes/audiobooks.asp
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Try setting them order by track in iTunes, and then re-sycning the Touch.
That' usually does it for me.
ALSO, make sure that shuffle is OFF.
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Thank you for taking the time and trouble to reply, Santo!
I tried your suggestion, but it didn't seem to help, but then I noticed something that I hadn't noticed before. Half of the discs were titled "Disc XXX" and the other half were titled "Disk XXX". (Notice the spelling of "Disc" vs. "Disk".) Once I made the spelling uniform, everything was fine.
Thanks again!
Judie

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