How to manually manage audiobooks on itunes

 · In iTunes, move to the Audiobooks section. Click File Add Folder to Library. Select the folder for your audiobook and click Select Folder. In the Books app on a Mac with Catalina, click on File.  · In each case I selected the "Manually manage" checkbox. On the iPod this worked, and I was able to drag the new song onto the iPod successfully without losing anything. However on the iPhone it would not let me manually manage without insisting on erasing everything on the phone and syncing with the local iTunes. Needless to say I did not do that. Open iTunes. Connect your iPod to your computer. Select the Device button near the top-left corner of iTunes. On the "Summary" screen, check the Manually manage music and videos box (under "Options"). Click Apply. Now you can transfer audiobooks to your iPod using OverDrive for Windows (desktop). Note: If you disable the "Manually manage music.

How to get audiobooks on iPhone 12/11/XR/SE/XS, etc., via Overdrive? Connect your iPhone to your computer through a USB cable. Launch the latest version of iTunes and turn on "Manually manage music setting". Open OverDrive for Windows, choose an audiobook, and click "Transfer". Tap on "Next" from the next screen to let the program detect your. See "Playing Genius Mixes" on page Set iTunes to manage content manually: 1 In iTunes Preferences, click Devices, and then select "Prevent iPods, iPhones, and iPads from syncing automatically." 2 In iTunes, select iPod nano in the device list and click the Summary tab. 3 In the Options section, select "Manually manage music." 4 Click Apply. Funny thing is, Books finds all the audiobooks in the old iTunes Media/Audiobooks folder and doesn't store/copy the audiobook files on my local MacBook drive. But as by now I realized how to make different folders on the NAS for "TV"- and "Audio"-App content I just wanted to add a folder "Audiobooks" to my NAS share.

How to get audiobooks on iPhone 12/11/XR/SE/XS, etc., via Overdrive? Connect your iPhone to your computer through a USB cable. Launch the latest version of iTunes and turn on "Manually manage music setting". Open OverDrive for Windows, choose an audiobook, and click "Transfer". Tap on "Next" from the next screen to let the program detect your iPhone. Your downloaded audiobook will begin playing at the Audiobooks part of iTunes, where all your audiobooks will be stored. How can I import my Audible titles manually into iTunes? Step 1. Establish iTunes, click ’Add File to Library. Step 2. Navigate to the folder of your downloaded books. Go to iBooks and under File, click 'move books from iTunes'. all books/pdfs then removed from iTunes library and iBooks becomes the way to manage books/pdfs on the iPad/iPhone (as it should have been when iBooks first appeared in Mavericks) Import new pdfs to iBooks and move to the appropriate collection.