Podcasting, audiobooks and the ipod.

[Harmonix]

I have a few questions about podcasting and audiobooks on the ipod.

Are audiobooks included in the music library when you select shuffle all songs in the ipod(4g)?

I want to be able to put pod-casts other long spoken word mp3 files onto my ipod without it coming up when I decide to shuffle all my songs.

If audiobooks indeed don't come up, then anyone know of a good encoder for it?

[Harmonix]

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[BurnMeUp]

Well in my iPod (3G) they do, but i hadn't upgraded the software to include the audiobook section.

I cannot speak for the audiobook menu item because I have yet to use it but I do have a bit of spoken word and audio books on my ipod, I just created a separate playlist (or 3) in itunes and then when i shuffle I make sure to select the playlist that has no "talkies" on it.

If i do a regular shuffle from the "all" playlist it does include the talkies.

[scr4]

Do you mean audible.com audiobook files? They do come up in the shuffle. But if you don't want that, you can just create a playlist that includes everything except audiobooks and shuffle through that.

[Harmonix]

Argh.

Thanks scr4.

I find it extremely annoying that the shuffle option shuffles the entire ipod and not the playlist I was in. For that matter I find it extremely annoying that picking a song through any means other then the playlist(which can be upwards to a few hundred songs...) exits my damn playlist.

Oh well, thanks. Question answered.