Help required with Audiobooks on iOS5 Music app

I have just upgraded my iPad to the latest OS which changed the ipod app to the new Music app. Unfortunately there are a couple of issues in the Audiobooks feature.
1) when you listen to an audiobook, it no longer moves automatically from one file to the next (like a playlist). It gets to the end of the file and stops. This particularly annoying when it is a book that is split into 2 minute files. I have looked for an option in case it is a configurable feature but can not find it.
2) for some of my audiobooks it has listed the files in a random order so the story does not flow in the right order. I do not understand what is causing this.
I have search the apple website and there does not seem to be a way to raise a bug report. Any thoughts on whether this is a configuration problem on my iPad or whether it is the new software.

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Ok, so everyone has already complained that the new Music app in ios 5 is a shockingly poor replacement for the old iPod app, but my issue goes a little deeper.
When I try to play a non-audible audiobook in the Music app, it only plays the track I selected, it does not move on to the next track. Quite annoying if you have 3000 tracks of 2mins long per audiobook....
If I install the iPhone Audible app (come on Audible, when are you gonna support iPad users properly), it can access my non-audible audiobooks, but it screws up the chapters...
I am literally pulling my hair out at this point. The iPod app was solid, why change it for something which has significantly reduced functionality. Fair enough if Apple and Audible have made a deal for all audiobooks to be played through their app, but their app isn't perfect and hasn't been built around the iPad platform.
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Hi Covuniracer,
When you play a non-audible audio book in the music app, is the book defined as an audiobook or just as music? Are the book files MP3's from CD or M4A's from CD or WMA or protected WMA? I'm asking because I have similar issues and I'm finding that the format of the original file seems to determine the eventual failure.
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b) I can get the Music app to recognize and play an MP3 audiobook as an audiobook for a short while by doing the following:
First, get it playing as a music file. Pause it. Start ITUNES, plug in the IPOD and redfine the book as an audiobook. Then sync, exit, unplug the pod. The book will still play from where we left it. Back track to the ALBUMS page-- its blank now, nothing shows up. Go to Audio book. It now shows up as an audio book and will play. Now if I go back to Albums, the expected stuff shows up on it.
This only works for a little while. As soon as I switch to the 2nd track, none of the MP3 audiobooks "fixed" in this way will play anymore.
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Restoring and loading the iPOD as a new device had no effect.Updating the apps on the IPOD has no effect.
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4) M4a (ripped by earlier version of ITUNES) audio track seems to work fine.
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