Unable to change file type to audio book; previously able to.

I have some audio book files (mp3) that I have added to my iTunes library and am trying to change the type to "audio book" by doing the standard right click and get info and changing to audio book etc. However, iTunes is only actually changing them to audio books some of the time; the books that are and are not converting are both the same file type (mp3). Whenever it does not change it over, iTunes literally does not do anything (as in it does not try to change it and then fail). I am unsure what the issue is, can anyone help? Thanks!
Windows 8.1 64 bit
iTunes 11.3.1.2

Hi,
There is no preference but it turns out you can manually edit one of the preferences.xml files to force PL/SQL types to use the SQL worksheet editor. For SQL Developer 3.2.20.09.87 that file is system3.2.20.09.87\o.sqldeveloper.11.2.0.9.87\preferences.xml and will be located (on Windows 7, for example) in directory C:\Users\<userid>\AppData\Roaming\SQL Developer
No guarantee this will work in future versions of the product, but for now you can add the following two xml blocks...
For example, for .pls, add to <extensionToContentTypeMap ...>
            <Item>
               <Key>.pls</Key>
               <Value>TEXT</Value>
            </Item>
and <userExtensionList>
            <Item>
               <docClassName>oracle.ide.db.model.SqlNode</docClassName>
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                  <Item class="oracle.ide.config.DocumentExtensions$ExtInfo">
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                     <locked>false</locked>
                  </Item>
               </userExtensions>
            </Item> I researched this a while back after reading through some forum thread where someone claimed the PL/SQL file extensions got opened in the SQL editor in his environment, but without stating any specific release information. Possibly it worked for him then due to different product behavior (whether intentional or a bug), or perhaps even due to the technique described above.
Regards,
Gary
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