Playing audiobooks in Nano problem w/track numbers

I load audiobooks into Touch and label with disk 1 of 5, 2 of 5, etc and the entire book plays thru w/no problem. I do the same for Nano 3G and the tracks show up individually (track 1 shows 5 times, track 2 shows 5 times, etc). Why the difference? Nano plays all the track 1 then all the track 2...Is there a way to get into Nano so the audiobook will play thru properly? Do you know why the 2 players are acting differently? Thanks for your help.

There's quite a few differences between those iPods - like how it tells you about how the battery is doing without ejecting on the Touch and you get nothing on the nano.
I didn't know that the Touch did it differently, but the best fix I've found on the nano is to download a script from Doug's scripts http://dougscripts.com/itunes/itinfo/jointogether.php
The procedure is a few steps but basically after you have that script installed you bring your book in and for each disk you select the tracks and then go to the script menu (the funny S) and run the script. You may have some learning to get things in the right order. Once it creates the single track you hit Get Info and switch the type from Music to Audiobook. Repeat for the other disks. If you want you could cram all the disks together in one track.
This also creates little track jump points which allows you to skip forward or backward by those tracks. Some other solutions don't do that as far as I can tell.

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Hard reset.
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Is anybody else having these problems. Any suggestions appreciated.

Hi, seen a similar post, don't have a solution, but try opening an album in Windows Media player, right click on album icon and select Find album info, find the album select it and let WMP do its stuff, then transfer to phone by drag and drop, and refresh music.
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I want to buy the new iPod Nano to play audiobooks. Does it remember the postion where switch-off took place and resume from there? Can one rewind and replay freely?

I want to buy the new iPod Nano to play audiobooks. Does it remember the postion where switch-off took place and resume from there? Can one rewind and replay freely?

1. Many thanks! I look forward to your revert on being able to freely rewind and replay with the 7th Gen iPod Nano.
2. Re resuming from the position where one left off - I meant after switch-off and not merely pause. Often, with audiobooks, I have to stop for the day, and resume maybe after 1-2 days. I'll be grateful if you can check this too
3. The above features make the iPod Classic a joy to use, but I have reservations about using it on walks because of its HDD.
4. Greatly appreciate the trouble you are taking. Best regards.

Does the new nano multi touch play audiobooks

Does the nano multi touch play audiobooks? Why am i having trouble getting them on the nano? I downloaded the books and there is no place on the main screens to choose "books" There is music, podcasts, photos etc.

Seen this?
YouTube - iPod nano : How to play audiobook on iPod Nano
...still no joy, walk it into the nearest Apple Store and ask staff there for assistance...they'll be happy to make sure you enjoy your new nano.

How to change tag track numbers en masse?

I have nearly 8,000 tracks on my iPod, many of which are for audiobooks stored as music files. In general, the tracks from these audiobooks have useful tag data, with the exception of the track number field that is stored as part of the tag data. I am trying to find a way that will enable me to renumber many tracks at once without having to do it one file at a time.
When I rip audiobook wav files to mp3 the track number data field is automatically inserted according to which track it was on the source CD. However, since many audiobooks have more than one CD, the end result is that I have more than one track that is number 1, number 2, and so on. For example, if an audiobook has 10 CDs each with 10 tracks I end up with 100 tracks in total, but instead of tracks numbered 1 through 100, I get 10 tracks with track number 1, ten with track number 2, and so forth.
This causes a problem in the way the iPod arranges tracks. My iPod puts them in the correct order when I access a book using "playlist," but if I want to access the book by "artist" or "album" it does not put them in the proper order. It orders them not by track name, but by track number. This is a problem because there are multiple files with the number "1" in the track number tag field. Whereas I need to be able to go from disc 1/track 1 to disc 1/track 2, instead the iPod goes from disc 1/track 1 to disc 2/track 1.
I could, of course, create a separate "album" for each CD in a multi-CD audiobook, but then I would have way more "albums" than I really need to have listed.
Does anyone know of a method (or an application) that I can use to renumber tracks easily and quickly? I would be ideal to find something as easy as this would be to do in an Excel spreadsheet. But to renumber them one file at a time is simply overwhelming.
Please advise.

Whereas I need to be
able to go from disc 1/track 1 to disc 1/track 2,
instead the iPod goes from disc 1/track 1 to disc
2/track 1.
Right click on any of these files and do a Get Info. Notice that there is, in fact, a Disc number field. So you can make disc numbers 1/10, 2/10 and so on.
iTunes and the iPod are both smart enough to recognize that there are disc numbers there and act correctly. So it'll start with Disc 1, play all that disc, then go to Disc 2, and so forth. It's just a matter of having correct disc number tags.
You can tag disc numbers for a whole disc at once. Simply select all the songs in a single disc (hold SHIFT or CTRL while selecting the songs), right click, Get Info, and you get the mass tag editor screen. Add the disc number info for this disc, and it'll tag that info to all those songs. Repeat for each disc.

Audiobooks on Nano 6th

I primarily listen to eAudiobooks on my Nano. I download books from Audible.com, OneClick Digital (a service from my library), and also from CDs. Is there some way to lock the Nano so when I double click the sleep/wake button to do something else and then go back to my Nano, it will stay on that place in the book I am listening to? Almost inevitably, even on Audible.com books, it will have switched to another book or music I have downloaded. This is very frustrating, and I haven't found a solution.

Audible audiobooks play extremely well on iPods and iOS devices. They generally download as 1-2 fairly large files, representing ~5-8 hours of playback each. The tracks are named so that they should always sort in the correct order on your device, so you shouldn't have difficulty playing them back.
I mostly use my iPhone for playing audiobooks, but have listened to a couple on my Nano (the first psuedo-Touch Nano). It works reasonably well.
I don't recommend using any of Audible's software for auto-loading the books onto your device. Just download them in your browser, and drag them into the iTunes Library window. iTunes will add them to your library, and you can then sync them to your device as you would any other track.
When I used Audible's software in the past (which, I must admit, was the distant past, on my wife's then-reasonably new Windows XP system) it had quirks, which were mostly designed to deal with the problem of unreliable, slow speed Internet connections. These days speed isn't usually a problem, and who's using a modem? Dropped connections are rare, and if you do, just re-download.

Sorting Audiobooks on Nano *****

Why won't audiobooks be sorted by book instead of putting every track from every book in one long line and not in order??, Why won't audiobooks be sorted by book instead of putting every track from every book in one long line and not in order??

Audible audiobooks play extremely well on iPods and iOS devices. They generally download as 1-2 fairly large files, representing ~5-8 hours of playback each. The tracks are named so that they should always sort in the correct order on your device, so you shouldn't have difficulty playing them back.
I mostly use my iPhone for playing audiobooks, but have listened to a couple on my Nano (the first psuedo-Touch Nano). It works reasonably well.
I don't recommend using any of Audible's software for auto-loading the books onto your device. Just download them in your browser, and drag them into the iTunes Library window. iTunes will add them to your library, and you can then sync them to your device as you would any other track.
When I used Audible's software in the past (which, I must admit, was the distant past, on my wife's then-reasonably new Windows XP system) it had quirks, which were mostly designed to deal with the problem of unreliable, slow speed Internet connections. These days speed isn't usually a problem, and who's using a modem? Dropped connections are rare, and if you do, just re-download.

Itunes assigns track numbers automatically

iTunes 11 - When I play a track, sometimes iTunes will automatically assign a track number to it, but not always. So what happens is it winds up putting an entire albumn out of order. In other ones, it will assign track #1 to track 1, then track 4 to track 4 and so on. So the ones it doesn't assign a track number wind up displaying on that particular album before the ones that were given a track number. It's doing this pretty randomly and causing a lot of grief.
I realize I can right click on the tracks without an assinged track number and assign the right number, but that's a pain for thousands of songs. I tried removing the Track# column, but that doesn't help. I still prefer to listen to listen to albums in their entirety and like to put them on my iPod, etc. that way.
Can't itunes just sort by artist name, then album, then the correct order of the album? This never happened on a previous version. Why did they do this?

The track numbers are all fine, the album and artist are exactly the same for all of them.
If you dont understand my problem, just check this image:
http://cncvision.org/itunesproblem.PNG
the tracks arent going in the right order. IDK why it wont work. I bought the album on itunes, then bought the song "not now" cause itunes didnt include it on the album, and bought "stockholm syndrome" cause itunes didnt include it on the album. Both songs are on the normal cd. I tried to put those two songs onto the album in the order they would be if I bought the cd and ripped it, but itunes wont place them in that order.

Shuffle never plays some albums (nano 5th gen)

I have a couple of albums on my ipod that when they are in a playlist, and the playlist is shuffled, the nano never plays these albums. If I skip through all the songs, it never shows any songs from these two albums, and gets to the end of the playlist without playing any of them.
If I play not in shuffle mode it plays the playlist no problem.
This problem is the same whether i choose shuffle playlist, or set the playlist playing and then turn on shuffle.
I've tried resetting the settings on the ipod which has made no difference.
The albums were ripped using itunes from CDs I own, but so are many of the other albums that there are no issues with.
Any ideas?!

Found the solution - forgot that there was a setting that could be used to exclude some tracks or albums from shuffle, and that I'd applied it to these albums as they're Christmas music and I didn't want to hear them on shuffle most of the year!
Details of this setting here:
http://ipod.about.com/od/advanceditunesuse/ht/skip_shuffle.htm

Problem getting tracks to display in the right order

My music library does not always display tracks in the desired order. For example, after loading a concerto from a CD I find the movements are out of order. When I try to rectify this by putting a numeral into the track title itunes takes no notice. I've had the same problem organising talking book tracks: when I try to order the untitled tracks numerically, itunes reads the numbers oddly eg L1 01 is followed not by L1 02 but by L2 01; then it reverts to L1 02, then L2 02 etc. With letters itunes alphabet order without exception. Why does it not do so with numbers?
Does anyone have a suggestion or solution to this? Is there an easier way to get itunes to play the track in the desired order?

Either you have the list sorted on the wrong column heading or the track numbers are not populated. See Grouping tracks into albums for more info.
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Audiobook Interface Design Problem

*The Problem*
It is not possible to view track titles of audiobooks.
*The Description*
Tap the iPod icon to launch the iPhone interface. Tap Audiobooks. Tap the title of an audiobook. A list of the audiobook's tracks will appear. The "name" of each track is "Part n of n" (as seen in the image below).
!http://www.wuala.com/en/api/preview/476429/Share/images/iphone-audiobook.jpg!
There is no way to view the actual name of each track so it is not possible to select a track based on its actual name. For example, the actual name of "Part 5 of 18" may be "Lesson 2 Pronunciation". The actual name is not displayed so users are left to guess which "Part n of n" is "Lesson 2 Pronunciation"--the track they are looking for.
*Temporary Workaround*
Apparently the only workaround is to create a playlist for every audiobook on the device. The actual track names are displayed in the playlist (as seen in the image below).
!http://www.wuala.com/en/api/preview/476429/Share/images/iphone-playlist.jpg!
When using this workaround users are required to either create a playlist for every audiobook on the device or create a playlist with multiple audiooks. A playlist with multiple audiobooks then requires the user to scroll through many tracks to find the one they are looking for.
This problem makes the built-in audiobook interface unusable when playing audiobooks based on track titles.
Conclusion
I sincerely hope I am missing something and there is a way to view an audiobook's track titles using the built-in audiobook interface. If anyone has any information regarding this issue, please let me know.
Thank you

Additional design issue in the iPhone 3GS:
-> voice control does not allow to access audiobook whatsoever
Is appears, that one can only select music albums/titles via voice.
However, that brought me to another workaround - but this one is also not really satisfactory in any way.
-> set the "media type" to "music" instead of "audiobook"
Careful: I'm talking about the "media type" available in the tab "Options" - NOT the "genre" in the tab "Information" - that should remain set to it's default value "Audiobook"...
PROS:
- you can now access audiobooks via voice control
- title names are displayed (no "part x of y" anymore)
- album names are displayed (instead of using the first title of an album)
CONS:
- your category "audiobooks" in the iphone and in iTunes is now empty
- music AND audiobooks are now both mixed in the "Music" category
- in iTunes you can still distinguish by "genre audiobook" - but not on the iPhone
- if you mess with the genre setting you'll have a hard time distiguishing between actual music and audiobooks "disguising" as music.
Personally, I'm using this approach for now hoping that 3.1 will really fix this design flow...
NOTE: my iTunes interface is german - i tried to translate to what will most likely show up in an english iTunes interface.

Accidently deleted track numbers. How do i get them back without manually doing it one by one?

I was going thru my itunes to try and get it all in order.
I highlighted an album, get info, checked a few boxes, and i thought all was looking good.
Then i discovered a heap of songs did not have track numbers.
I eventually worked out that one of those few boxes i checked was the track number box.
So now i am missing quite a lot of track numbers.
Is it possible to to get them back? Or do i need to sit here for days to manually put the track nubers in?
Please give me good news because its about 20G of music missing track numbers :-(
Thankyou

MusicBrainz often isn't that successful, and then there is the problem of getting iTunes to recognize the external update.
Start with this method to restore your most recent library file that had the correct information.
Under Edit > Preferences > Advanced turn off the option to Keep iTunes media folder organized.
In the Previous iTunes Libraries folder should be a number of dated iTunes Library files. Take the most recent of these and copy it into the iTunes folder. Rename iTunes Library.itl as iTunes Library (Corrupt).itl and then rename the restored file as iTunes Library.itl. Start iTunes. iTunes should now have the correct track numbers, but the files won't be where iTunes expects to find them.
To fix this new problem use my script FindTracks.
When that is done use iTunes Folder Watch to catch up with any files that have been added or removed since the backup file was created. Any files added at this stage will probably need their track numbers fixing by hand.
You can now reenable the keep organized option.
When you get it all working make a backup!
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Manually Adding Track Numbers Doesn't Work!

I would like to make a "custom album" for an artist, a greatest hits designed by me, if you will. The songs are all by a single artist, but come from various sources. Some were purchased from iTunes Music Store, some were imported directly from CDs, some were MP3 files from my old PC, etc. (you get the idea).
Anyway, I select all of the tracks, press Command+I to open up the "Get Info" window. For all the tracks at once, I give the album a name ("Best Of Whomever") and manually enter the tracks (1 of 32, 2 of 32, 3 of 32, etc.) I check everything else to make sure there are no inconsistencies between the tracks, as I want all things to be equal. When I'm done, however, there is inevitably a stubborn track (or two or three) that insists on ignoring its assigned track number and placing itself somewhere else in the list. This happens most often with IMS tracks. It's very frustrating and annoying.
The way around it, of course, is to make a playlist. But without folder support for the iPod, playlists quickly become unmanageable.
So my point is, if I manually assign a track a track number, it should go where it belongs and not wherever it chooses to. (And remember, before I assigned track numbers, I gave all of the tracks the same album name and info as a group, so there are no inconsistencies from track to track, like wierd spaces or misspellings.) I've tried everything and can't seem to solve this problem.
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My suggestion would be to ask in the iWork for iOS forum. Many more iOS users there.
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Can't remove track numbers from Music app even though they're deleted in iTunes

So I've been having an incredibly annoying issue for a while now, and I can't seem to figure it out or why it happens. I have a large amount of singles and misc. songs in iTunes and I decided to file them under one single Artist and Album, both called iTunes. I then have the track name, artist name, and album name all listed in the track name slot. I have removed all sort by info, album artist info, track numbers, disc numbers, and unchecked the Compilation option on every single of these tracks. In iTunes, the songs are listed under the proper artist and album, and the songs are all alphabetical from A to Z.
Here's where the the problem comes in. When I select the entire list of songs and send them to my iPhone 5 running iOS 7.0.4, they sync fine. However, upon browsing the songs, the first half (about 100 songs) are listed as being track 1. The next 20 or so tracks are listed as track 2. The next 20 or so tracks are listed as track 3. This continues until the bottom of the list, where the last 8 songs are listed as 13, 13, 15, 16, 16, 18, 19, 22. Within each set of shared track numbers (for example, track 1, so 100 songs), the tracks are listed alphabetically. Then when I hit the set of songs listed as track 2, the alphabetizing resets again, and so on and so forth. I can't figure out why this is, other than that some sort of data is still contained within the song files that the Music app picks up and interprets. I shouldn't have to manually assign each of the 212 tracks its own listing, such as 1/212, 2/212, etc. because that would take forever and I'd need to re-edit half the tracks when I added new music to the iTunes album. Is there anything I can do to fix this issue?; because I'm totally bamboozled as to where these faux track numbers are coming from.

Ok, I "sorta" figured it out. I was having trouble even sorting the songs into separate albums like iTunes A B C, iTunes D E F, etc. because Music still placed random track numbers onto the songs. So, I went back to my original plan which was to have one album and artist called iTunes, and I forced all tracks to be track 1 of 1, and disc 1 of 1. That seems to have fixed the issue and forced Music to put them in alphabetical order. I'm still unsure as to why Music won't just alphabetize the tracks as they are in iTunes.

Itunes script to detect gaps in track numbers within an album

Is there an iTunes script out there that will detect gaps in the track numbers within an Artist & Album? This would be useful to detect incorrectly numbered tracks that could reveal an error in the whole file's tagging that occurred for whatever reason. I'm picturing a process that would sort your library by Artist+Album+Tracknumber, then look for any numbering gaps and if found, display the 2 files with the gap in-between into a playlist for the user to evaluate for problems. Or perhaps this is not possible?

Looks like this does most of what you want in that it identifies incomplete albums. You'd still have to see which tracks were missing: http://www.enilnomi.net/cgi-bin/blosxom.cgi/dltext/findincompletealbums.dl
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