TRACKCNT=`/bin/ls *.mp3 | wc | awk ''`Įcho Done. # Sets track numbering in all MP3s in current directory You need to put each audiobook in its own directory, and run this script in each directory, for this script to work. I wrote a shell script to set the N/M track. The id3v2 utility is a sourceforge project. Or you might, if they are still in the store, be able to redownload them (being able to redownload audiobooks is a recent addition) : Download your past purchases - Apple Support. Or copy them back from your backup of your downloads/library add them back into iTunes. Select the album, command-click or right-click and choose File Info -> Options, change the Media Kind to Audiobook, and you now should have your audiobook in order! If they are on your computer you can add them back via File > Add To Library. Then import the mp3 files to iTunes and now you should see the files grouped as an album with the tracks already in the right order. The chapters of the audiobooks will be preserved to ouput m4a files.I have been struggling with this for the last few years and I finally got a solution to work today!! I used the id3v2 utility on linux and set the track frame as 'N/M' where N=Track number and M=Total number of tracks. It removes iTunes M4B DRM and convert M4B audiobooks to mp3, m4a, etc. It loads all your audiobooks from iTunes library automatically so you don't need to add them manually. , which is a professional iTunes M4B audiobook converter. To play iTunes M4B audiobooks on Android, you need to remove the DRM protection and

You can't transfer them to Android directly with USB cabel since the the iTunes M4B audiobooks are DRM protected.

It's impossible to sync them to Android with iTunes. It's not so easy to enjoy iTunes M4B audiobooks on Android You can sync your device with iTunes to send the M4B file to your iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch and play them with iBooks app. Drag the audiobook from the iTunes Library onto the iPod. On a computer as well as to transfer audiobooks to an iPhone or anotheriOS device. note There's only one option to move audiobooks onto an iPod shuffle, which is the manual way. iTunes is the primary program used to both ,' but other than that the files are very similar to the. ITunes identifies audiobook files versus music files by the name suffix '.

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