Cannot set Media Kind to Audiobook. Defaults back to Music

Can anybody offer input on why MP3s cannot have the "Media Kind" set to Audiobook in iOS5. The setting will default back to music automatically.
This was not the case with iOS4...

Right click on the video and select "Get Info" and click on the "Options" tab scroll down to "Media Kind" and select "TV Show" to "Music Video."
Best of luck!

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Yes, I know it causes the file to show as a Book and not Music, but what does it really do to the file? The real question is: What constitutes an Audiobook to iTunes. If the file's file type and extension are M4B or it is from Audible with extension aa, iTunes says it's an Audiobook. But setting the Media Kind to Audiobook does something else. What does it do?
Thanks for any info on this.

"I've taken to deleting Podcasts app so that they return (properly organized!) to the old Music app."
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As DogDutyAscetic said above: it's best to just completely switch to Downcast (or other 3rd party) if you make your own podcasts. Apple has bigger fish to fry than the podcast community, and understandably so as the biggest company in the world. Rather than fix this issue over the last 12 months, they've instead shut off their working alternative. A pity, but the writing was on the wall.

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This for Mac only (sorry).
'Subler' offers a nice 'clean' way of adding the requisite tags to m4a files, also for iTunes U.
It's free at http://code.google.com/p/subler/
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Do not add your track to iTunes yet, instead, open it in Subler.
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File a bug report as an enhancement request if you want it:
https://bugreport.apple.com
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http://developer.apple.com/products/membership.html

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"I've taken to deleting Podcasts app so that they return (properly organized!) to the old Music app."
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Hi
Before the update i could add an audiobook to itunes from my laptop, windows 8.1. The audiobook got into musicfiles, then i marked all the files/songs, went to info and changed from music to audiobook. Viola and i could find my audiobook in that categori.
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Sorry for the spelling and grammatics errors. From Denmark.
Yours sincerely
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Hi
Before the update i could add an audiobook to itunes from my laptop, windows 8.1. The audiobook got into musicfiles, then i marked all the files/songs, went to info and changed from music to audiobook. Viola and i could find my audiobook in that categori.
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I have tried with severel audiobooks, but same result. I also tried when i wasn't logged on to Itunes, and then i could change media kind, but when i logged on, nothing changed.
Sorry for the spelling and grammatics errors. From Denmark.
Yours sincerely
Flemming

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right click file, select extended tabs
select starpage icon
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field: COMMENT ITUNPGAP
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From King_Penguin in response to an earlier query on this topic:
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GB

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