have a problem.. hi all :)

[brockly]

hi I'm new to the site and it look better then the other ones. so I made this site my iphone site :)

question. I have some audio books I turn to MP3. how can i tell the iphone its a audio book not a music file. when i do the shuffle it plays the books.

one more. Is there a way you can change the buttons? when I like to skip a song or go back to a song i have to turn on the iphone put the code in and then i can change the song. i would like to change the vol. button to next and back. is there a way ?


thanks all :)

[Alexander]

hi I'm new to the site and it look better then the other ones. so I made this site my iphone site :)

question. I have some audio books I turn to MP3. how can i tell the iphone its a audio book not a music file. when i do the shuffle it plays the books.

one more. Is there a way you can change the buttons? when I like to skip a song or go back to a song i have to turn on the iphone put the code in and then i can change the song. i would like to change the vol. button to next and back. is there a way ?


thanks all :)

If you have at least version 1.1 you can double tap the home button before typing in your code in order to bring up the audio controls.

[Griffinaz]

Audiobooks have an ending of .m4b instead of .mp3. I do not know of any converters for this format but I recommend that you search on Google for an .mp3 to .m4b converter and you might get lucky.

[Griffinaz]

Check out this site. This might be exactly what your looking for:

http://www.dagondesign.com/articles/turning-mp3-audiobooks-into-ipod-audiobooks/

[coop1701]

You can run the normal i-tunes converter on them. Changing them to a M4A, when you import them. Once as a M4a. Rename them all to M4B by hand.

I know it's a lot of work. But it does work for me, each and every time.

I do a lot of Audiobooks too..

[Lincoln]

I recommend what coop posted. I use the same process for the few Auidobooks I use.

Welcome to the site!

- John

[termleech]

There is a free tool for windows here http://lifehacker.com/software/featured-windows-download/convert-mp3-audiobooks-for-the-ipod-with-mp3-to-ipod-audio-book-converter-269837.php


that will convert the things for you.

[brockly]

thanks all :) its works and i'm am happy :)

[Kabeyun]

Brockly,

Glad you chose Everythingicafe as your home base!
Q1 has been answered well. Q2 can't yet be done afaik. If you find a hack to reassign volume buttons to other functions, please post in the Modifications forum. Thanks, and welcome.

-K