iTunes questions I recently picked up Naxos Audiobooks fantastic Complete Sherlock Holmes CD set. It was significantly expensive, as CD audiobooks are apparently all bit dead, as evidenced by my inability to find a number of others I want. But it was worth it, and I've finall uploaded all 60 discs into iTunes. As I always do when uploading audiobooks into iTunes, I've set up a playlist to keep things in order (I can't imagine I'm the first person who ever stumbled across this idea, but it's worked fine for me with most books). Unfortunately, probably to sell the individual packages, the stories themselves are not in order (Incidentally, whoever load them into the database is schizo; some discs which should theoretically be from the same set have different names and sometimes even different names for the discs themselves, sometimes the name of the story is in the track name, sometimes not, it's generally insane.). As the chronology between the original stories is notoriously poor, this shouldn't be hugely important, and if you're a normal, well-adjust person who gets laid once in a while, you probably won't mind, but it bugged me. I've arranged them in the playlists in the proper order (which took way more effort than it should have), but to broaden the topic in general, is there a different way to go about importing audiobooks? I have a couple of others where each chapter is a individual track, leaving me with 60 minute tracks, and if I were to lose my place I wouldn't be able to click off like I could with a regular audiobook and then click on and pick up. Is there any way to convert the tracks while keeping them organized? I remember reading once upon a time that when importing a CD, you could "join" the tracks, then change the media type. I can't find the "join" option on th accursed new version of iTunes, and in any case, it wouldn't work for the Holmes stuff unless I could go to the actual imported groups of tracks rather than the discs themselves and join each story individually. On tangential note, in my futile quest to find some of the old audiobooks I'm looking for on CD, I've found that Amazon apparently does carry digital downloads (presumably through Audible, evidently the new biggest name in audiobooks), and some for pretty darn low prices, but Amazon's iphoke app and mobile site won't let me buy them, leading me to believe that these are in a format iTunes doesn't support and that the prices are indeed too good to be true.
EDIT: Apparently, there are similar prices in iTunes. I can hunt online for the CDs, or spend less than a dollar for each of them on iTunes. For any semi-intelligent person, that should be a no-brainer, why am I still considering getting the CDs?
