HT2955 The problem with the above is this: If a chapter end is reached at the same time as the CD space is filled, iTunes goes to EOJ, ejects that CD and pretends it's done. Other than entering start:end manually you are screwed. iTUnes just ***** for bur

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If you use iTunes to burn Audible CDs you better hope the book is only one CD long. Otherwise iTunes craps-out without warning and cannot be easily restarted. It just goes to EOJ and pretends it's all done with the entire burn. Often this can cause (will cause) the user to waste many many CDs trying to get a burn completed. If a CD-end is reached at a chapter-end point, iTunes assumes the burn is done and ends. The user must manually enter start:stop for each CD, pay constant attention to what's going on, and hope everything goes right. And even if you do all that you WILL find a chaper point at CD end and will have to go manually adjust the start-stop of the next CD and HOPE... that's their strategy: Hope.  iTunes was never designed for books, for audio content that is multi-volume, and it really ***** at it. And if you are unlucky enough to want to burn long books (Truman -48 CDs, or Atlas Shrugged - even more), be prepared to throw away many tens of CDs as you try to get it done; pretty soon it's just cheaper to go buy the book in audio form and dump Audible entirely. (Maybe this is why Amazon made the switch from working Roxio to non-working iTunes... nahhh.. you'd have to be too cynical to believe that...)  If, that is, you don't just give up in frustration and terminate your Audible subscirption as I did a couple of years ago. Audible keeps your paid-for library, but downloading a long book again just brings you to the same point: trying to burn multi-volume CDs on a tool not designed to do so. Maybe amazon bought lots of Apple stock at the same time and just wants you to be walled-in to your iPod and never again use a CD.. maybe they bought the car companies, too, so you can't have an old car and must buy a new one with an ipod attachment in order to listen to your books..... The worst part is that Audible used to use Roxio, which handled all of this with no problem at all. When it was tasked with a multiple-CD burn, it told you how many you'd need, began recording, when it reach end-of-CD, it told you to put in the next one - regardless of whether there was a coincident end of chapter, and kept burning until the book was completed. For unknown - and seriously stupid - reasons, audible decided to use iTunes, and the problem continues. My research across the web indicates I am not the only FORMER customer of Audible that feels this way, or who cancelled their subscription because of this stupefyingly dumb decision - to make the primary customer interface tool WORSE that it had been.

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AC, Thank you for you reply.
Even though it is supposed to be a 'simple' home video system it has so much potential!
And i mean i know there is an solution since i know the Caribbean cruises are using apple as media centers onboard their ships. have to admit that i do not know if they are using frontrow or some other application created buy some other company.. i just know that some one must know how to get around it all and make it work..
Just wish i had someone to get in contact with that is working hands on every day with this product, and get strait, good, final answers.. no "pro support" since im not happy with their answers anymore..
I know i start to sound desperate.. but thats because i am..