Question by CG: How to import mp3 to iTunes audiobook format?

I have some audio books that have been downloaded in mp3 format. Can anyone tell me how to import these into iTunes 9? I have them imported as 'Books & Spoken' but I am interested only in adding them specifically as an Audiobook so that I may take advantage of the chapter bookmarks. Every answer I have found in Google seems to apply to previous editions of iTunes. Thanks for your help!




Best answer:

Answer by dontpanicpikey
In iTunes 9 (as with previous versions) you can leave the books as "Books & Spoken" genre within Music - if you do this just go to iTunes, select all the tracks/chapters of the books so they all change colour then right mouse click and select Get Info. Go to the Options tab and tick the box that says "Remember playback position" and this will effectively bookmark where you stopped listening last time.

If you want to change the type from Music to Audiobook then select all the tracks again, right mouse click, Get Info, Options and use the pull down menu alongside Media Kind to select Audio book rather than music. Also tick the box that says "remember playback position".

P.S. To select all the tracks you want just left mouse click on the first track, hold down Alt and left click on all the others one by one. Or if they are all together left click on the first one, scroll fown to the last one, hold down the Shift key and left click on that.

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