If you have audiobooks loaded on your nano and then choose to listen to your music ‘shuffled’ do the audiobook chapters stay seperate or do they also get interspersed into the shuffle?
In other works does the nano treat audiobook chapters as if they were songs or does it keep them seperated from the music?
Just wondering because I am considering buying a nano and I specifically wanted to have audiobooks as well as my music loaded up on the device. However since I usually always listen to my music in shuffle mode I wonder whether that will be a nuisance with the audiobooks in the mix.
Yeah actually I did and I think it is about to be absconded by a pal who has taken to it!!!
As well, once I tried it with audiobooks I missed the screen option a lot. Can’t see how far along you are in a chapter and you have to click through a lot if you have more than one book loaded in there.
So now I am thinking to hand off the shuffle to its ‘new found’ owner and go for a nano.
You could always get a number of other non-Apple mp3 players with LCD screens. I have a Creative MuVo that I like, and it was much cheaper than any ipod with a screen. Like the shuffle, the interface is just like any USB thumb drive, so it works fine with OS X.
I don’t know from audiobooks, but I’m going to guess that they operate like albums, with individual tracks. This means you can shuffle by song, or by album. If you shuffle by album, it will play all tracks from an album before going onto something else. But it won’t play the album in order. Shuffling by songs ignores album listings.
But since there is a category for audiobooks, it’s possible that they will be treated differently. Thus endeth my level of knowledge.
It depends on whether the audiobook files are Audiobook files or standard MP3s. If you download the Audiobooks from iTunes or Audible, they are in an audiobook format that remembers where you stopped even if you change songs. If you just ripped them from an audiobook on CD they are treated like any other music file, and will come up in your shuffle rotation. Unfortuneatly there is no way that i have found to convert a standard MP3 into a recognized audiobook file, since most of the audiobooks are ones I borrowed from the library on CD they do come up in my shuffle rotation, but luckily for me I have an older ipod with a remote which I mount ont eh strap of my camelbak so whever a non-music song comes up I can just hit skip quite easily
Yes, that answers my question completely! Thanks for explaining.
I think my solution will be to run all my music on my new nano and load up my old mini with my audiobooks…kind of crude I know, but simple and it will work for me.
