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Originally Posted by Catlady
I think I'm throwing in the towel on getting audiobooks onto the Fuze+. I suspect if I retagged the files as "music," I could have the Fuze+ treat each book as an album, but since they are all tagged as "audiobooks," that's what the Fuze+ considers them, no matter what folder I put them in.
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If you're already familiar with using MP3Tag, I can offer a few suggestions. If you change the 'genre' in MP3Tag from "Audiobook" to ether "speech" or "podcast", and load the books into the "PODCASTS" folder on the Fuse+, you might have success in getting the Fuse+ to recognize a complete audiobook instead of individual chapters showing up as different books.
I used BonkEnc (Fre:AC) to rip and convert CD audiobooks to mp3 files. I wanted to keep some chapters so that I could split some books intentionally into "Part 1", "Part 2", etc. I had to play with the "Title" tag (not just the file name) to get my conversions and some commercial audiobooks to work properly on the Fuse+, without the problems you've experienced (even after the genre change and loading as a podcast). Apparently the Fuse+ looks at both the (computer) file name (where you might typically name chapters Xbook001, Xbook002, etc), plus the "Title" tag that can only be seen/edited when you originally encode, or via a program like MP3Tag. I've seen it reported that the chapter sorting works better if the tag/"title" is blank, or if it's incremented like the PC filename. I remember for sure that after experimenting (and failing) with several tag re-naming schemes, I basically copied the tag naming scheme used on a Tantor-produced audiobook that played well with the Fuse+.
Basically, it's a lot of work to go to if you've got other options for listening.
The most frustrating thing is that it surely seems that Sansa knows better, since their other players don't seem to be this difficult.
KentE