MP3 CD and Downloads: When I put the files onto my iPod, they are showing up in the “music” category, instead of “audiobooks”. How can I have them display as audiobooks?
Apple has decided–in both iTunes and on the iPod–that a true audiobook must be in either Audible.com’s .aa format or in Apple’s .m4b Protected AAC format. Anything else, and it won’t show up in the Audiobooks menu. To get your audiobooks to show up there, you need to trick iTunes and your iPod into thinking the files are stored in that format. For Windows, this is easier but more manual: Change the file extensions from .m4a to .m4b, and then play a few seconds of each track after renaming. On a Mac: Change the file extensions from .m4a to .m4b, then plan a few seconds of each track. You may need to also fiddle with the hidden type code to force iTunes to believe the file extension.
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