Grouping audiobooks in iTunes

itunes_audiobooks.md

I feel like I should have a blog for things like this, but there's so random and infrequesnt that it doesn't seem worth it.

So, in prep for the upcoming post-thanksgiving road trip I've been loading my phone up with audiobooks. The thing of it is, we like serires books, and they are always such a mess in the main book list. Why can't I group them up like discs in an album? Turns out you can, if you know exactly how to tag them in iTunes.

For the sake of this example I'm going to tag The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. It's a radio series of 5 different stories. Tagging is pretty simple once you know what to do.

• Set the "Album" to the series name, in this case "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy"
• Set the "Name" to the book's name, our first book is "Primary Phase"
• DO NOT set the track number fields. If you do the book will display as "Part 1 of 5"
• Use the "Sort name" field to ensure the books sort in the right order within the series. I used "Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy 1" for the first book, "Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy 2" for the second, and so on.
• If you have a multi-file book that you can't combine into a single file, tag "(Part 1)" on the end of "Name" and add a second number onto the "Sort name": "Iron Druid 3 1"

When all is said and done, you'll end up with a base list that has each series, and then within the series you'll see each book as a "part".

nice! thanks for sharing.

I really need a blog or something ^^

Dude, they have this really cool thing called pages on this really cool site called github. You should check it out.

I still have to come up with a layout and pretty styles. Sadly I did not get that gay gene... all my creations are fugly. I need to just "borrow" someone else's...

Let a community of designers do the coloring for you and keep it simple on style.