Audiobooks are not showing up on the clip...but they do show up when viewed on my computer

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I just got the clip yesterday. Love it.

I dragged a bunch of music over from “My Music” to the clip and it all went in just fine.

I dragged a few audiobooks I had over that were stored in “My Music” under the iTunes library in my iTunes

folder… When I view the Clip harddrive on my computer screen to check what is stored in the Audiobook area it shows

the books are there… When I disconnect the Clip and look under audiobooks it says “empty”.

Is there a way to get the books onto the clip?    (I did notice they are mp4 in my itunes library and mp3 in “my music”)

Thanks in advance.

By the way I picked up this 4gig on slickdeals.net for 34 bucks delivered.  Great deals on there.  Greg

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Simple solution.

Put the files in the Audiobook folder on the Clip.

-OR-

Change the ID3 Genre tags on the audiobook files to “Audiobook”

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Thanks,

I did drag these audiobooks over into the Audiobooks folder of the Clip (when viewed on my computer screen) and when

I double check to see if the audiobooks are in the folder…they are…But when I disconnect the Clip it says

that the audiobooks are empty.

Is the problem because I am dragging files over from the “Itunes Music” in My Music files?

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You cant play Itunes files on the clip unless they have been converted to MP3 format.

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Thanks again…

Do you know of any software to make that conversion?

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@jeba8888 wrote:

Thanks again…

 

Do you know of any software to make that conversion?

itunes itself will convert them

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@marvin_martian wrote:

@jeba8888 wrote:

Thanks again…

 

Do you know of any software to make that conversion?

itunes itself will convert them

Marvin, you must be a lawyer.  That answer was truthful, while remaining almost completely opaque…:wink:

Here is how I do it (right or wrong, I can’t say):

I first use Itunes to burn whatever songs I’m interested in onto a CD (I use a RW disk).  Out of spite it seems–since you’ve just wripped the DRM wrapper (that is, copy protection) off the song–Itunes writes each track to disk with no identifying information…that is, all tag information is LOST!!!  Stupid.

Anyway, I then run a second media-player program (I routinely use MediaPlayer, but growing fonder of MediaMonkey) and use that to rip the songs I just burned to disk.  In a few minutes, I have MP3s of the songs that were originally M4Ps.  Itunes should burn considerably faster than realtime, and likewise the program I use to rip the songs into MP3 format should also only take a few minutes.  

The fun part–and I don’t know a workaround for this–is now going through each track and adding back in the title/tag information.

I also imagine there is a program out there that will do the conversion directly (BonkEnc Audio Encoder comes close).  However, every free program I have (and that is probably 10 or so) will immediately say “OOOPS, can’t convert that M4P since it’s copy-protected.”

-Matt

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@sansamatt wrote:

@marvin_martian wrote:

@jeba8888 wrote:

Thanks again…

 

Do you know of any software to make that conversion?

itunes itself will convert them

Marvin, you must be a lawyer.  That answer was truthful, while remaining almost completely opaque…:wink:

 

Here is how I do it (right or wrong, I can’t say):

 

I first use Itunes to burn whatever songs I’m interested in onto a CD (I use a RW disk).  Out of spite it seems–since you’ve just wripped the DRM wrapper (that is, copy protection) off the song–Itunes writes each track to disk with no identifying information…that is, all tag information is LOST!!!  Stupid.

 

Anyway, I then run a second media-player program (I routinely use MediaPlayer, but growing fonder of MediaMonkey) and use that to rip the songs I just burned to disk.  In a few minutes, I have MP3s of the songs that were originally M4Ps.  Itunes should burn considerably faster than realtime, and likewise the program I use to rip the songs into MP3 format should also only take a few minutes.  

 

The fun part–and I don’t know a workaround for this–is now going through each track and adding back in the title/tag information.

 

I also imagine there is a program out there that will do the conversion directly (BonkEnc Audio Encoder comes close).  However, every free program I have (and that is probably 10 or so) will immediately say “OOOPS, can’t convert that M4P since it’s copy-protected.”

 

-Matt

 

 

Are you talking about downloading songs from iTunes? If so, get the iTunes+ tracks…they come out as m4a, at least. iTunes does that CD-burning that way for a reason…they only want you to use their equipment…they’re like iFascists…lol. You mentioned MediaMonkey…that will convert M4A(unprotected Apple sound files) to MP3, Ogg Vorbis, WMA, etc.

The Cd’s you’ve burned though…if you just add part of the info, then  Media Player and/or MediaMonkey can search out the rest from the Web…that’s the only way my tags get altered :wink:

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@sansamatt wrote:

The fun part–and I don’t know a workaround for this–is now going through each track and adding back in the title/tag information.

I’ve used the Nero software that came with my disc writer, and Foobar2000, and another app (CDex?) to automate that process.  They simply look up the info for the CD and apply the tags automatically.

The older version of Nero that came with my CD writer had a local database, but when I “upgraded” to the version that came with my DVD writer (a much uglier program IMO – lots more eye-candy, lots more WORK to actually *use* the blasted thing) – uses an online database. No biggie, since it only takes a second or two, even over a modem, but I’d rather have the local database anyway – that one *would* look it up over the Internet if the CD wasn’t found in the local database, and then update the local version to keep it current).

In any event, it shouldn’t be that hard to do using a variety of apps.  Foobar2000 is probably the nicest of the bunch IMO.

Edited to add that I’ve only done this with real CDs (the ones I’ve purchased over the years). I’d assume that as long as the CDs you’re writing from Itunes have the same order of tracks, and lenght of tracks (which is how I presume the database “fingerprints” the albums) it ought to work for you.  But, if you’re working with individual songs you bought from Itunes, it probably won’t work.  I am not an “Itunes guy” so I don’t know it from [insert term of derision] but I should probably try to figure it out before too long – my wife IS an Itunes person – she wanted an Ipod for the longest time, so, I bought her one a while back (a “gen 5” so that she’d be able to use it with the video dock I also bought her), but, she has recently “claimed” her first Sansa – a nice 2G Black Clip that I bought for myself <g> – and she’s making noises about “how do I get the music I bought onto this thing?”

I have read something about various freeware apps that *will* convert Ipod-format music into “real” music files, but never paid it much attention.  I imagine I’ll be doing some homework in that department soon, though (and, looking for another cheap 2GB Clip – the 4GB I just got is intended for a dedicated purpose – it will hold the Pink Floyd studio album box set, which I have read will fit in FLAC format).  The 2GB was a nice catch, I think I paid $15 for it – *almost* bought two of them, but decided I only “needed” one.  Never in a million years thought she’d want one.  Live and learn.

Message Edited by PickMorel on 12-06-2008 05:45 AM