How does a track become an audiobook or podcast?
Podcast handling takes a different approach: You define a special directory in the preferences, and everything below that directory is tagged as ‘Podcast’ automatically at the beginning of a podcast sync. All the files have the ‘Podcast’ genre then. This genre name can be changed in the prefs (not recommended), but only one genre is possible for podcasts. All tracks that are marked as audiobooks or podcasts are skipped when you use the “Shuffle Songs” feature on the iPod. Additionally they remember their playback position (this is called “bookmarkable” on the iPod). So if you come back to an audiobook after listening to some songs, you start listening exactly where you left. Unfortunately, audiobooks will not show up in the “Audiobooks” menu on the iPod. This is due to some limitation in the iPod firmware. The iPod only puts tracks with *.aa or *.m4b extension into the “Audiobooks” menu. Even if we mark a track as “being an audiobook”, it will still not show up there. Nothing we can do
There are two mechanisms that we use to mark a specific track as audiobook or podcast: [edit]Audiobooks Audiobooks are distinguished only by genre. It’s up to you to have all your audiobooks tagged with the right genres. You can edit in the preferences which genres should be regarded as audiobooks, any number of genres is possible: Speech preferences If you use *.m4b audiobooks, make sure that the extension is entered in the options of Winamp, as described here. [edit]Podcast Podcast handling takes a different approach: You define a special directory in the preferences, and everything below that directory is tagged as ‘Podcast’ automatically at the beginning of a podcast sync. All the files have the ‘Podcast’ genre then. This genre name can be changed in the prefs (not recommended), but only one genre is possible for podcasts. All tracks that are marked as audiobooks or podcasts are skipped when you use the “Shuffle Songs” feature on the iPod. Additionally they remember their playback
