Fixes iTunes Bug with getting Audio Books to show up in Books rather than Songs

Ive been putting up with manually ripping my audio book CDs into iTunes and having my audiobooks mixed in with my songs. I could manually set remember location when playing, set as compilation to group my book as n album, but I was really frustrated at not getting the .M4a files to show as .M4b in the media type, or the ability to join multiple tracks as a single chapter.

Then I found AudioBook helper. Looks like there are a couple similar apps in the store that do the same function, but the clean UI, the active user forums where the developer answers questions and the reasonable $5 price I jumped. Happy to say it works really well. Love that I can easily merge tracks. I can drag/drop existing iTunes audio book albums into AudioBook Builder to clean up. I can add chapter names, book cover and chapter art.

The only feedback Id give the developer is:
- Bug: If you are in the chapter tab playing a track trying to find where the next chapter starts and using the forward/backward track button, youll hear the name of the chapter you want, let it play while you name it and when you hit next chapter the named track gets applied to the next track, not the track you are on. Only found this after having all my chapters offset by 1 track, annoying, but once you know to stop preview while naming it is avoidable.
- Auto naming, numbering tools. If you have hundreds of tracks it would be great to be able to auto name sections at a time (probably after the files have been captured). For now Im just wholesale merging all these tracks into chapters, but in the user forums you note that Apple no longer honors custom chapter names so Im not sure that youll address this until Apple fixes their bug/as designed.
- Make it clear about the maximum audio lengths and the need to break up books that span days!
- Add better error handling around Amazon Audible Book format .aax. I downloaded some of my Audible books and tried to convert but I’m guessing there are some DRM issues. Would be great if you could handle them, but at a minimum add some better error messaging around them so users understand that this is an Apple - Audible backdoor into iTunes.

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