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Importing AUDIO CD AUDIO BOOKS TO ipod ITUNES

. Put the audio book CD into your CD drive. Wait a minute or two for the tracks to show up in iTunes. Keep in mind that you might have to dismiss one or more dialogs which will prompt you to agree to some sort of automatic action. The only thing that you want to do is display the tracks on the CD whether or not the automatic lookup of those track names was a success or not.
. Choose all of the CD tracks. Then choose the join CD tracks from the ¡°advanced¡± menu. This option will consolidate many of the CD tracks into one and make it that much easier for you to manage when these tracks have been transferred to your iPod.
. Choose submit CD track names from the ¡°advanced¡± menu.
. When the CD info dialog appears fill in the correct information about the audio book. This information will include: (1) Artist = the author of the book, (2) Composer - the reader of the audio book, (3) Album = the title of the book, (4) Disc Number = the disc number out of the total number of discs on the track, (5) Genre = just call it ¡°audio book¡±, and (6) Year = the year that the book was published.
. Click on okay. The above information about the audio book will be submitted. At this time you will be prompted to choose the select CD category because the database that is online uses a different category for audio books. Select the books & spoken option and click okay again.
. A dialog box will appear telling you everything so far is done. Click okay.
. Once the submission process has been completed all of the CD tracks will have the right information connected and attached to them. This is your cue that so far everything has worked just fine.
. Choose the import button to import the disc. You will find the import button in the top right corner. The import settings that you optimized earlier will be used.
. Once the import process is complete you can remove the audio book CD from the CD drive.
. Go to your iTunes library and look for the track that you have just imported (there should only be one). Choose this track and press the option command-I so that you can do a get info about the track. Choose the info tab.
. Check to make sure that all the information about the audio book is there. The name of the song will be the same name as the album. You want to see the name on your iPod so you will need to add the disc sequence number to the song. Keep in mind that a short format is better than a long one, particularly if you have an iPod mini which has a narrow screen. You might want to consider using the format ¡°xx/yy¡±. ¡°xx¡± is the disc number and ¡°yy¡± is the number of discs in total. Make sure that you add a zero (0) to the number of the disc if the total number of discs will be totalling more than one digit (for example you will reach disc ¡°10¡±). This will ensure that all of the tracks will be correctly sorted when you sort them by name.
. You might want to think about including a small note in the comments field about where the audio book is from (library or free source online).
. Move to the options panel. Make sure to check both the remember playback position and the skip when shuffling boxes. The remember playback position option will tell both iTunes and your iPod that the file can be bookmarked. The skip when shuffling option will ensure that audio tracks aren¡¯t included when you choose to play random groupings of songs.
. Use the above process for each of the audio books that you want to import to your iPod.
. Once you have imported all of audio books to iTunes you can transfer them to your iPod.

A note here on accountability of legal issues. If you have checked audio books out of the library, you have the fair right to listen to them on your iPod. However, once you have listened to the audio book you should delete it from your iTunes library.

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