Gadget gurus; 'Help!' CD Audio books to load to iPod???

15 years ago

I need help from the electronic gurus, please!

Santa Baby left an iPod Touch, 64GB, 4-something, in my stocking. It's a darling little shiny thing, (my gypsy soul loves little shiny things!) but I know next to nothing about iPods.

First, I need to know how to take my scores of unabridged audio books on CD, load them into the computer, and then transfer them into the iPod.

Wes tried doing one book tonight and it took hours. The audio books track every three minutes. He was trying to combine all the tracks into one long book, or at least group the tracks by chapter.

Does anyone have an idea how to do this?

Thanks!

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heather_on
15 years ago
There are many apple ipod forums if you do a google search. Someone there should know how. I've done music cd's but never an audio book.
Lindsey_CA
15 years ago
Audio books have to be in the correct format (and, yes, there's more than one format for audio books) in order for the iPod to play them.

And you wouldn't transfer them onto the iPod into the same folder where your music is stored. "Audio books" should be a separate folder.
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donna_loomis
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I use ITunes to convert my CDs to mp3 files to put on my player (not an ipod). I would think it would be much the same. It does take some time, but not hours. And some CDs are mp3 CDs, meaning that there is no converting to do, just transfer the files. And I use Windows Media Player to add them to my ZEN.
rosemaryt
15 years ago
You have to have ITunes on your computer.

Once that's done, it's a cake-walk.

Put your audio CD into the computer's CD drive. I-tunes should open automatically. One of the features (under FILE) is "import audio CD". Click on that, and it'll transfer the contents of the CD to your I-tunes folder.

Then, when you "synch" your I-pod with the computer, the new "files" (audio files) will automatically be added to your I-pod.

Easy as pie. :)
redcurls
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I do as Rosemary suggested, but you also need to go down to the bottom of the left column of your iTunes library and make a "playlist" for each cd. As each disk is put into iTunes, drag it to (title of book) disk 1 etc. I do it all the time with library books when I travel.

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