Audiobooks remembering position?

I'm considering replacing my aging Palm III and my old
click-wheel iPod withe an iPad. (The Palm desktop is
no longer supported, but still works - so far.)
The one gripe I have about the iPod is that it usually
"forgets" where I was when I last stopped listening to
an audiobook. (Discussions confirm that this is a known
bug and will not be fixed.) I have to keep a post-it with
the iPod and write down where I stopped.
Does anyone know if iPod for iPad has this problem?

The iPad has no problems with playing audiobooks or remembering last position. Hurrah!!

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Audiobook playback does not remember position

I like to get audiobooks from the library and rip them to my ipod. I am very good about setting the "compilation", "remember position", and "skip when shuffling" flags to yes. I have never had a problem with my ipod. Now, on my iphone, it forgets where I was sometime after midnight, or the next day. During the same day, it remembers fine for example I like to listen while commuting. It remembers where I left off from the morning commute, but the next day, in the morning, I have to fast forward to the spot I left it at the day before. Please help.

I get CD books from the library. There are usually 10-15 in a typical unabridged novel. I put the CD in with the parameter to show CD only. I select ALL tracks, join them, and then import. After all CDs are on board, I have to edit the info for all of them, and this is where I set the remember position flag. I then have a Smart Playlist that looks for this title only, and for those tracks that have a playcount of zero. It works very nicely on my IPod. I can't figure why it loses position. This morning it was right where I left off.

Audiobooks don't remember position on my iPhone

It's nice that Apple has a box for "Remember Last Position" for tracks. Why anyone would want that for a three-minute song, I dunno. And why that option DOESN'T work for hours-long audiobook files is all the more frustrating.
For my iPod Classic, an audiobook's position is remembered properly. But my iPhone used to do this properly and now doesn't, ever since the upgrade to 3.0.
I'm getting fed up with this completely nonsensical glitch. Is anyone else experiencing this?
Message was edited by: QuiltMaker4Life

I got the same problem weeks ago, but solved lately. But this method cannot apply to a single audiobook file (the selection box just dim), only work with group selection, here's how.
Select the audiobook files with shift or command, choose "Get info". Now go to the "Options" and select "Media kind" to Audiobook and "Remember position" to Yes. It should working now.
This function purpose to be automatic in iphone.... anyway this's how computer works.

Transfer settings "do not shuffle" and "remember position"

All my audiobooks are marked with the 'do not shuffle' setting in iTunes. How do I get this to transfer to my nano (which thinks they are music) so I can play just music with 'shuffle all songs'?
I haven't tested this yet, but the "remember position" setting in iTunes does work on the nano, doesn't it?

I think it should just transfer and work. But if not, you can create a Smart Play list where the rule is anything that isn't an audiobook. Then on your Nano just play and shuffle that playlist which will be all your music and not your audiobooks.
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Hey ok so I've got iTunes 11.4 on my mac. I have a couple of audiobooks a friend gave me in mp3 format. One file for each chapter. Ive gone through set them to be an audiobook and to remember position. However the remember position only seems to work on the individual files and not the whole audio book. Which means I have to remember which chapter I was up to when I go to continue. Is there a way to enable iTunes to remember what position of what chapter (file) the book was up to? Thanks for the help

Listening to audiobook then chapter changed to next
one but it resets my 30gb 5G Ipod. Did the 5R's, no
help. I noticed that the files that don't work are
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If I hilite the bad file I don't have the convert to
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ELP!
I have had a previous issue with this problem but recently I tried to play an audio book file but it caused the Ipod to reset but instead of resetting to the main menu it just keeps resetting over and over and no matter if I plug it in to a power supply or a computer it keeps doing the same thing. Has anyone else had this problem and if so has anyone found a fix because I sure as heck don't want to return it.
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On my ipod touch my songs start in random places and jump to different places as it plays, the remember position is not ticked can anyone please help?

First, try a system reset. It cures many ills and it's quick, easy and harmless...
Hold down the on/off switch and the Home button simultaneously until the screen blacks out or you see the Apple logo. Ignore the "Slide to power off" text if it appears. You will not lose any apps, data, music, movies, settings, etc.
If the Reset doesn't work, try a Restore. Note that it's nowhere near as quick as a Reset. Connect via cable to the computer that you use for sync. From iTunes, select the iPad/iPod and then select the Summary tab. Follow directions for Restore and be sure to say "yes" to the backup. You will be warned that all data (apps, music, movies, etc.) will be erased but, as the Restore finishes, you will be asked if you wish the contents of the backup to be copied to the iPad/iPod. Again, say "yes."
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Since upgrading to IOS 6.0 then 6.0.1 audiobooks don't remember position

Since I upgraded to IOS 6.0 (and recently 6.0.1) on my iPhone 4s my audiobooks no longer remember their position properly.
If I pause the book and use some other apps the position is remembered, but if I leave the book paused long enough and use enough other apps the posiiton in my audio book is lost. It forgets the track and the position in the track. Most of my books are in MP3 format ripped from books on CD, I haven't tested any of my Audible books yet.
This is VERY annoying. Plus with the difficulty of navigiating those books that are just a few multi-hour files to a percise spot it becomes a huge pain in the butt. The worst case is I have say a 10 hour file and get it to within 15 minutes with the slider control and can't get any closer with percision so have to hit the Advance 15 sec button around 60 times. Grrrr. (P.S. I do know how to use my vetical finger position to control the slider sensitivity but for huge book files it still doesn't let me get to an exact spot).
Please can someone help? Or Apple can you fix it.
I've tried rebooting and re-downloading several different books.

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I recently purchased a couple of audiobooks from itunes. I noticed that the iphone does not remember the position when you stopped listening if you play any audio file after you stopped listening. If i pause and quit go through my day and then listen again later it will remember its position. But if I open another audiobook, song, etc the music app will forget where it left off in the audiobook and start from the beginning every single time. This is very annoying and seems like something obvious so I dont think apple would overlook it. Can anyone replicate this problem?

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To make a particular video forget playback position, right click or control click on the video and choose get info.
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To make a selection of songs forget playback position, click on the top video and hold down the shift key and click on the las video. This will highlight everything in-between.
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I've been listening to audiobooks via my iPhone, and I just purchased a little nano to use while exercising. I synced my iPhone to iTunes to get the latest playback position for my audiobook, then synced my new nano to iTunes and added the audiobook, which started playing at the proper position. Nice.
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