# Podcasting, audiobooks and the ipod.

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/podcasting-audiobooks-and-the-ipod/307904>\
**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [June 12, 2005, 12:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/podcasting-audiobooks-and-the-ipod/307904 "2005-06-12T00:30:27Z")\
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**Author:** ![Harmonix](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/3ec8ea/32.png) [@Harmonix](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Harmonix)\
**Post date:** [June 12, 2005, 12:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/podcasting-audiobooks-and-the-ipod/307904/1 "2005-06-12T00:30:27Z")

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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?

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**Author:** ![Harmonix](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/3ec8ea/32.png) [@Harmonix](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Harmonix)\
**Post date:** [June 12, 2005, 11:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/podcasting-audiobooks-and-the-ipod/307904/2 "2005-06-12T11:43:56Z")

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bump

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**Author:** ![BurnMeUp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/91b2a8/32.png) [@BurnMeUp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BurnMeUp)\
**Post date:** [June 13, 2005, 8:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/podcasting-audiobooks-and-the-ipod/307904/3 "2005-06-13T20:14:11Z")

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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.

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**Author:** ![scr4](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/59ef9b/32.png) [@scr4](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/scr4)\
**Post date:** [June 13, 2005, 10:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/podcasting-audiobooks-and-the-ipod/307904/4 "2005-06-13T22:32:39Z")

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Do you mean [audible.com](http://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.

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**Author:** ![Harmonix](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/3ec8ea/32.png) [@Harmonix](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Harmonix)\
**Post date:** [June 13, 2005, 10:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/podcasting-audiobooks-and-the-ipod/307904/5 "2005-06-13T22:57:02Z")

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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.