I had not noticed any triplicate EscapePod issues. (MacOS X - Leopard)
But on the topic of the iTunes update, just tonight I did run across this thing over at Podiobooks.com -
http://www.podiobooks.com/blog/2008/09/13/itunes-gives-you-control-over-your-own-audiobooks-sort-of/The new iTunes 8 has launched and fans of audiobooks couldn’t be happier. Prior versions of iTunes kept the Audiobooks section under lock and key. The only files that would display in the Audiobooks section on your iTunes or iPod were books purchased from the iTunes music store. Not very handy to people who buy copies of audio books on CD or download them from other sources on the interwebs.
[blurry iTunes screenshot]
With 8.0, iTunes now allows you to change the Media Kind for files to Audiobook, taking them out of the Music section (where they never belonged in the first place). So score one for iTunes for enabling those who just want to use the software, but exercise choice in where they get their audiobook content.
Unfortunately, there’s still a bias against files received on a podcast — even a podcast of an audiobook. Those files are still locked up as a “Podcast”, prohibiting you from re-assigning the Media Kind for received files as Music, Audiobooks… you name it. Which means that files you get via our RSS feeds — default or custom — still won’t go in the Audiobook section.
Unless you are a bit crafty and willing to go through a couple of hoops. The good news is that you don’t have to buy any software. You can do it with a little bit of time and patience with iTunes 8.0. Here are the steps.
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I'll have to give it a try later (currently posting from workplace), since I don't have any
audiobooks per se, and I always wondered how the listening experience differs from podcasts and playlists. I do like the way podcasts send it back to the main menu after an episode is finished, because I often listen to them when dropping off to sleep at night (or morning, if following a night shift). It saves battery power if I fall asleep, and doesn't flag all those eps as being listened to.
Oh. Saying I use EscapePod to put myself to sleep doesn't sound very complimentary to the authors and readers, now does it?
More often than not, I wake up partway through and rewind to catch up again.
Maybe it will now let me turn Librivox files into audiobooks.