Audio book loses (forgets) position

i have been listening to audio books using the default music app, in itunes i set it as an audio book, to not include it in shuffle, that it is a compilation and to remember where i left off.
But if i don't go crazy closing apps after i use them (being very careful not to close music app) my iphone runs out of memory and completely forgets that it was even playing anything, it is very frustrating trying to refind my position all the time.

This gets anoying very very quickly. It seems the player remembers some random point in the book and always resets to it.

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http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1766
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How do you make an iPod remember your AUDIO BOOK position?

With podcasts or audio books from Audible.com, my iPod remembers the position in the audio file, so that if you listen to some music and then go back to the podcast or audio book, it resumes where you left off.
I can't figure out for the life of me, how to make audio books that I load from my own CDs do the same. I've been transferring my books-on-CD onto my iPod, but its useless if I can't figure out how to make the iPod remember my position in the book. I'm not going to carry a note pad and pencil around with me
Am I missing an obvious check-box somewhere, or is this just an impossible task due to the horrible design of iTunes?

Rohan: You must use iTunes 5 and the 2005-06-26 firmware (or the 2005-09-?? for the Nano).
Get Info on an individual MP3 you want to make bookmarkable. Select the Options tab and check the box for Remember Last Played Position. I'd recommend also checking the box for Skip when Shuffling so the book won't be played when using the Shuffle Songs menu from the main menu.
Unfortunately there isn't a way to do this with multiple files at once, yet.
Like previously mentioned, they will not be set as Audiobooks but normal Mp3s.

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Hi everybody. I hope I don't open a redundant thread, but i couldn't find one that has this topic.
Anyway, I am syncing some audio books from audible to my iPhone. When i start playing them on the phone, the play position is in sync to the position in iTunes. Now let's say i listen one hour on the phone and then sync again.
Contrary to what i expected, the further advanced play position from the phone is NOT synced back to iTunes but the old position from iTunes is synced again to the phone. So the next time I access the audio book on the phone I start where i started in the first place.
Is this a bug or have I missed some setting wheresoever?
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When you buy an audio book from iTunes Store you always get it as long audio file. 8 or 10 h. If you, in iTunes, could create a marker of some sort (as in iBooks). I have repeatedly lose track on where I was the last time. This would make listening to audio books on your products much easier. Because now it's not worth it, I think.

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I think I know what you mean. I have run across one major issue when importing books from CDs, and that is bookmarking. Specifically, how to save your place in a multi-track playlist (such as a CD imported book).
1. It is easy to make TRACKS bookmarkable... here is a script to do that as a batch.
http://www.dougscripts.com/itunes/scripts/scripts07.php?page=3#makebookmarkable
The problem is, audio books imported from CDs are multiple tracks... and end up, not as single tracks, but as playlists.
2. Apple has failed to make a PLAYLIST bookmarkable, and you will have to remember what track number you are on in the book. The TRACKS are bookmarkable, the PLAYLIST is not. So, if ever you want to leave and return to the book, it will remember where you are inside a given track, but it will forget WHICH track you are on in the book. Silly, but true.
3. Ask Apple to create a "Save my place in this playlist" feature. Or maybe a "treat this playlist as a single audiobook" feature.
It is an oversight that may be easy to correct. Maybe they just haven't thought it through.
I drive my kids to school listening to Harry Potter. But when I get there, I want to save my place (in both playlist and track) and listen to my music. Then, when I pick them up, I want to resume from the place (both playlist and track) that I left off. Currently this requires my feeble brain to remember which of the 170 tracks I was on. I should not have to remember, iPod is more qualified than I am at this task.
Hey, Apple... Howzabout 3 "memories" which hold the position (in playlist and track). That would be a big enhancement to my daily iPod use.
Another enhancement would be to make a track "unshuffleable." I like my music shuffled, but it's disaster for my books. I got tired of going to settings after each school run, and turned shuffle off - since when it is on for music, it is on for books as well. Maybe, in addition to being bookmarkable, a playlist could be unshuffleable! Just another thought from someone who uses his iPod daily to listen to both music and books.

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since I updated my iPod touch to OS version 3.0 the bookmarks of my audio books will be deleted if I connect the player to iTunes.
It´s really very annoying because it isn´t easy to find the location on the audio book I stopped before. So I have to write down the chapter information before connecting to iTunes. In some cases I forget it and I must begin to search. Even everybody who hears audio books knows that this is difficult and mostly you hear a passage ones more.
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I have seen this issue in the past on other iPods however it has been working fine on my iPad 3. Either the Music app starts to malfunction or crashes losing all playback data for that session. One work around that worked on iPods was to play a song when you are done listening to the audiobook. You don't have to play the whole thing, just start it then pause it. This forces the Music app to record the playback position to more permanent memory where it is not susceptible to lose.
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If you are browsing through iTunes you are not looking at files you are looking at data entries that point to files, with those locations being incorrect right now.
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If it's an Audiobook, then it's probably in the Audiobook section of your iPhone. Have you set your iTunes to Sync Audiobooks with your iPhone?
Alternatively, if the Audiobook was imported into your iTunes Library as as Music, then it's going to be in the Music section of your iPhone. If so, then it will be in the Music section of your iTunes Library. To move it to the Audiobooks section, select it in the Library and choose File/Get Info/Options>Media Kind where you can change it.
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This program is useless when it comes to audio books. I have been attempting to rip books to it for over a year with no success. It always seems to lose a track on every CD. If the **** program hadn't automatically imported every MP3 on my computer it would be easier to track the lost track. I have the music organized where I can find it in Media player. The lack of organization ability in iTunes makes it hard to find a track from a book. Then getting all the cds to fall in one place. I give up. It appears this is designed for music only and if I want to listen to music will use the system at home a turntable or CD player. This has turned into wasted money as the software won't do what I bought the player to do.

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I have a 1G 16GB Ipod Touch, and have been running 1.1.4 for the past year until about a week ago when I took the plunge and upgraded to 2.2.1. I thought all went well, but have been experiencing multiple problems as my use of the Ipod expands.
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Please be gentle, I'm totally new to the ipod phenomenon and itunes etc.
Just got a new ipod touch and want to put my previously purchased Harry Potter audio cd's on to it to listen to. Trouble is when I do that it classes them as music rather than putting them in the audio book section of the ipod. Now it's not a huge problem but it really is quite irritating. I object to paying the extortionate rate on itunes for something I've already got so don't want to download them again.
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