Importing Audiobooks from CDs - keeps adding as music CDs

Hi,
I am trying to add some audiobooks that I have on CD to iTunes, it keeps adding them as music cds rather than as audiobooks, does anyone know how I can get them to import as audiobooks? Is there a setting that I need to change or anything like that?
Any help greatly recieved.
Coffee.

You may find these links on audio books and iTunes helpful:
http://aldoblog.com/audiobooks/itunes/
http://oakroadsystems.com/genl/itunsabk.htm

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Importing audiobooks from cds

I have an audiobook that is 3 cd's that I want to import to iTunes then sync to my iPod. When importing first cd (about 70, 30-60 second tracks) it goes to Library, then I import 2nd cd and it meshes the tracks to the first cd in the library (track 1 of the second cd follows track 1 of the first cd, and so on screwing up the order that the book is read back.
Can anyone help with the proper way of importing a multiple cd audiobook?

You may find these links on audio books and iTunes helpful:
http://aldoblog.com/audiobooks/itunes/
http://oakroadsystems.com/genl/itunsabk.htm

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I am importing audiobooks from CD and all the relevant Options for audiobooks are greyed out.
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I can make the changes after I've imported them, but I really want to do it before I import as it simply makes it easier on me (which is to say, it saves me time, and time is precious).
Any idea why these would be greyed out for importing audio CDs?
At least I can still join tracks.
Hmmm ... I suppose I should see if it's also greyed out when I import a music CD, but I haven't bought a music CD is years and have already imported all the one I do own.

Any idea why these would be greyed out for importing audio CDs?
Because this info is not in the tags for the audio CD. They are part of the file after you import it.
This info is part of the *CD Info.cidb* file., which is where iTunes stores the CD info. The CD info is not stored in iTunes.
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Re: [iPod classic] - Re: Importing songs from CDs - not showing up in my Library
Thu, Feb 09, 2012 08:01 PM
When I load the CD, iTunes recognizes it and asks me if I want to Import the CD.
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May also be prudent to attempt a backup to iCloud directly from the device before you start... Settings > iCloud > Storage & Backup > iCloud Backup > On. It won't save any media but it would preserve the general account settings and documents in case anything goes wrong while you are trying to extract your other data.
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I'm trying to help my daughter to import a couple of audiobooks from CD into iTunes. I'm used to downloaded audiobooks (mainly from Audible) where an unabridged reading is stored in a small of files (usually from 1-3), each of which is broken up into multiple chapters. Looking at the CDs, though, there are multiple discs (7 or 8) per book, and each disc is broken up into 70-75 tracks, each about a minute long. The sleeve notes list the correspondence between tracks and chapters - some of these span two discs, e.g., the book chapter consists of tracks 50-70 of one disc and tracks 1-10 of the next disc.
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Microsoft Windows XP Home Edition Service Pack 1 (Build 2600)
Dell Computer Corporation Dimension 2400
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LowerFilters: Pfc (2.5.0.201), CDR4_XP (5.3.4.21), MXLW2K (1.0.1.104), AFS2K (3.1.14.0),
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IDE\DiskST340016A______________________________3.75___, Bus Type ATA, Bus Address [0,0]
IDE\DiskWDCWD100AA____________________________05.05B05, Bus Type ATA, Bus Address [1,0]
IDE\CdRomHL-DT-STCD-RW_GCE-8481B________________C102___, Bus Type ATA, Bus Address [0,0]
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Track 4, start time 09:58:52
Track 5, start time 14:00:42
Track 6, start time 17:43:25
Track 7, start time 21:30:20
Track 8, start time 24:14:15
Track 9, start time 27:44:70
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