Hello,
I have and iPhone 3Gs running 4.3.3. I listen to audiobooks a lot, and in the 2+ years I've had my phone never had this particular problem.
I use and MP3 joiner to bring my audiobooks into 3-4 hours sections to make it easier to listen to an shorter on my list, but recently I have encountered a problem with two of my book when I try to sync them onto my phone.
Problem #1: The track seems to "remember" the length of the mp3 before I joined it. For instance this book was originally 332 files longs, each approximately 10:25 in length. I joined them together into 12 files, tagged them, imported them to iTunes, just as I have for years. The full length plays fine directly from any media player playing the mp3, it also plays fine on my PC when I play it directly in iTunes. But when I play it on my iPhone, while the entire file will play it only says that this 3-4 hour file is 10:21 longs. So, in one session if I listen longer than 10:21 the content is there, but is starts back at 10:21 each time as it's "bookmark." This is the case with each of the joined files regardless of how I joint them. If I join just two and make a 20:50 long track same problem. I have tried joining them in different groups, changing every tag setting I can find. Any suggestions???
Problem #2: With another audio book. Same idea, I joined smaller sections to make longer files for easier listening, but on this one any time I listen to the first track, it bookmarks it onto the second track. I can go back and only start over on the first track, but if I try to slide to a different time point it sticks me to the second track.
Any thoughts/pointers would be helpful. Thanks.
I have and iPhone 3Gs running 4.3.3. I listen to audiobooks a lot, and in the 2+ years I've had my phone never had this particular problem.
I use and MP3 joiner to bring my audiobooks into 3-4 hours sections to make it easier to listen to an shorter on my list, but recently I have encountered a problem with two of my book when I try to sync them onto my phone.
Problem #1: The track seems to "remember" the length of the mp3 before I joined it. For instance this book was originally 332 files longs, each approximately 10:25 in length. I joined them together into 12 files, tagged them, imported them to iTunes, just as I have for years. The full length plays fine directly from any media player playing the mp3, it also plays fine on my PC when I play it directly in iTunes. But when I play it on my iPhone, while the entire file will play it only says that this 3-4 hour file is 10:21 longs. So, in one session if I listen longer than 10:21 the content is there, but is starts back at 10:21 each time as it's "bookmark." This is the case with each of the joined files regardless of how I joint them. If I join just two and make a 20:50 long track same problem. I have tried joining them in different groups, changing every tag setting I can find. Any suggestions???
Problem #2: With another audio book. Same idea, I joined smaller sections to make longer files for easier listening, but on this one any time I listen to the first track, it bookmarks it onto the second track. I can go back and only start over on the first track, but if I try to slide to a different time point it sticks me to the second track.
Any thoughts/pointers would be helpful. Thanks.
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