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pwalker8 · 03-02-2017, 09:37 AM

I'm looking for a way to organize my audiobooks. Right now, they are all in iTunes on my mac, but that has a number of limitations. There is no place to put in series information. Plus, I would like to better track which audiobooks I've actually listened to. The biggest limitation is all that because of the way Apple does audiobooks, that information doesn't make it down to the iPhone/iPad. Ideally, it would be something like calibre, but calibre doesn't really handle audiobooks well.

Right now, I exported the audiobook info from iTunes and imported it into a Bento database, which works pretty well. I do have to manually add new entries, but I rarely buy more than 5 or 10 over the space of a month. Plus, it syncs down to my iPad.

Unfortunately, support for Bento was dropped by Filemaker and I have no desire to spend $500 for Filemaker Pro. I've played around with Numbers, and it works ok, but a database will allow me to filter it better.

Anyone have an solutions that they use?

03-02-2017, 09:37 AM	#1
pwalker8 Grand Sorcerer Posts: 7,196 Karma: 70314280 Join Date: Dec 2006 Location: Atlanta, GA Device: iPad Pro, iPad mini, Kobo Aura, Amazon paperwhite, Sony PRS-T2	Audiobook organizer I'm looking for a way to organize my audiobooks. Right now, they are all in iTunes on my mac, but that has a number of limitations. There is no place to put in series information. Plus, I would like to better track which audiobooks I've actually listened to. The biggest limitation is all that because of the way Apple does audiobooks, that information doesn't make it down to the iPhone/iPad. Ideally, it would be something like calibre, but calibre doesn't really handle audiobooks well. Right now, I exported the audiobook info from iTunes and imported it into a Bento database, which works pretty well. I do have to manually add new entries, but I rarely buy more than 5 or 10 over the space of a month. Plus, it syncs down to my iPad. Unfortunately, support for Bento was dropped by Filemaker and I have no desire to spend $500 for Filemaker Pro. I've played around with Numbers, and it works ok, but a database will allow me to filter it better. Anyone have an solutions that they use?