tell ipod a recording is an 'audiobook'?

On Thu, 5 Jul 2007, Matt Price wrote:

> gearing up for a very long car trip this summer and ripping all of our
> harry potter books-on-cd to mp3 for use on our ipod, whose collection i
> currently manage from amarok (1.4.6). everything is fine except that,
> with ca. 20 cd's per book, 20 tracks per cd, harry potter now makes up
> about 20 percent of my music collection. When i put the ipod on
> 'shuffle', i get harry every fifth song, which is ANNYING, to say the
> least. i'd like to convince the ipod that these tracks are not music
> but audiobooks (whatever that really means).

Why are you using something that you don't have control over?

> does anyone know how to do this? if it can be done from amarok that's
> great, otherwise i can use whatever music player is required.

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On Jul 5, 2007, at 8:22 PM, Matt Price wrote:
> i'd like to convince the ipod that these tracks are not music
> but audiobooks (whatever that really means).
>
> does anyone know how to do this? if it can be done from amarok that's
> great, otherwise i can use whatever music player is required.

There's a Windows utility that does this, called "MP3 to iPod Audio
Book Converter". If anyone knows of a Linux app that does the same
thing, I'd like to hear about it.

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