How are you managing your audiobooks and podfic?
In the past 1-2 years, Apple did a massive overhaul of iTunes and split off all the mechanisms for managing audiobooks into their Books app. For people who only ever buy audiobooks from the Apple store, this is probably fine-ish. (I have no idea. I'm guessing. I don't buy files from Apple.) However, the Books app is godawful for anyone who wants to listen to podfic or any kind of DRM free audiobook file.
With this change, iTunes won't even acknowledge my audiobook files anymore. I have been searching for a new way to manage my audiobooks and podfic for ages and I still haven't found a decent option. Does anyone have an audiobook manager they can recommend for Mac users? I need one that will let me manage the file metadata and that will connect with my iPhone. Essentially, I want something like Calibre or the Marvin app, but for audiobooks.
Alternatively, for anyone using the Books app, have you found a way to hack into it so that a) you can edit the file metadata and b) you can make it stop creating duplicate copies of each file in the Hidden Mac Library folder? Because, if I could figure out a workaround to these two things, I might be able to tolerate the Books app.
UGH. All of this is super annoying bullshit and it makes me hella grumpy. Everything worked fine before and now trying to listen to an audiobook has become an epic and annoying trial.
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With this change, iTunes won't even acknowledge my audiobook files anymore. I have been searching for a new way to manage my audiobooks and podfic for ages and I still haven't found a decent option. Does anyone have an audiobook manager they can recommend for Mac users? I need one that will let me manage the file metadata and that will connect with my iPhone. Essentially, I want something like Calibre or the Marvin app, but for audiobooks.
Alternatively, for anyone using the Books app, have you found a way to hack into it so that a) you can edit the file metadata and b) you can make it stop creating duplicate copies of each file in the Hidden Mac Library folder? Because, if I could figure out a workaround to these two things, I might be able to tolerate the Books app.
UGH. All of this is super annoying bullshit and it makes me hella grumpy. Everything worked fine before and now trying to listen to an audiobook has become an epic and annoying trial.
This entry was originally posted on Dreamwidth here and has
comments. Feel free to comment in either place.