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I have a large number of audiobooks, I join the mp3 files into one big one then convert them to m4b in Itunes or MP3 to Ipod audiobook converter. These always played perfectly on my iPod classic, many of them won't play now I have a touch, they won't play on iPhone or iPad either. I'm guessing that IOS devices use quicktime as a media player as they wont play on quicktime either. (Error -2014: the movie contains an incorrect duration). If I try to play the original MP3 files they report incorrect times and do not play correctly either.
All of my MP3 files pass an MP3 check. All of MP3 and m4b files play perfectly on any Nano or Classic player, or any MP3 player I have tried.(lots) and will all play perfectly with iTunes, Media player, Zune, VLC etc. etc. it is ONLY ios devices and quicktime that have a problem.
I have seen this problem reported before, it has been around many years and Apple don't appear to have the ability or inclination to fix it...
I guess it is down to the fact that they hate windows users, it is similar to the USB problem that occurred at ios 5 release, you have to plug it into a motherboard (not hubs even though every other USB device works ONLY the touch doesn't) USB port or the device is no longer recognised.
Apple are well aware of the problem, they just don't care (100 odd billion in the bank they can afford the arrogance).
Would love to know if anyone has found a fix for the audiobook problem...

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To troubleshoot your software problem, you could try a few things, roughly in this order:
If you have any third-party mail related software, uninstall it.
Try a safe boot (restart, hold down shift until you see the Apple logo). This does some diagnostic testing and then starts up without third-party added on software. If this eliminates the problems with Mail, then you know the problem is with some third-party software. A safe boot doesn't fix anything, but it tells you where the problem is. Mac OS X: What is Safe Boot, Safe Mode? If the safe boot does indeed eliminate the problems with Mail, then you can try to eliminate the third party software that is causing the problem.
try a test user account: create a new user account. Recreate your mail accounts in that new account and see how Mail runs. If the problems are gone, then you know the problems are in your old user account.
Boot into your recovery partition (restart, hold down ⌘R until you see the Apple logo), and use Disk Utility to repair your hard drive. Repair permissions too while you're there. OS X: About OS X Recovery
sometimes there is a problem with OSX that Disk Utility can't fix, and the solution is to reinstall OSX over your current installation. That usually works for OSX problems.

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