Within iTunes, go to the file in question and change the genre from whatever it was to what you need it to be. Right click, select "get info", and then go to the "info" tab. There is a books & spoken genre and a podcast genre among others. I don't have audiobooks so I don't know if this will create an audiobook category. I've tried this with podcasts and it works. iTunes usually tags things correctly if you say, buy an audiobook through iTunes (which I would never do) or download podcasts through it (which I almost always do, even for podcasts not featured in the iTunes store).
Hello,
I continue to be disappointed with Apple products and their "don't bother us" approach to online technical support.
I have a very basic question: The folders on my iPod, such as audiobooks and podcasts, don't match the content as listed in my iTunes library.
For instance, I downloaded some audiobooks. They downloaded to the audiobooks folder in iTunes so they are in the right place in the iTunes library. However after transferring them to my iPod, they do not appear under audiobooks in the iPod menu. Instead they are listed as songs.
The same is true with podcasts. They are organized and listed in the podcasts folder in the iTunes library, but on the iPod itself, they are mixed in randomly with music.
I have tried Apples "5 R's" approach, but not even a full restore changes how the media is handled when it goes from PC to iPod.
BTW: My OS is Win XP Home, on a Dell Dimension with a P4. And it's an 80 GB 5th Generation Video iPod.. about a year old.
Apple is too proprietary with their hardware & software and too capitalistic to want to help anybody once they have their $$$. Does anybody here have any suggestions?
HELP!!
Paulie K.
Chicago, IL
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