tell ipod a recording is an 'audiobook'?

[Matt Price]

On Fri, 2007-06-07 at 02:48 -0400, Chris F.A. Johnson wrote:
> On Thu, 5 Jul 2007, Matt Price wrote:
> 
> > gearing up for a very long car trip this summer and ripping all of our
> > harry potter books-on-cd to mp3 for use on our ipod, whose collection i
> > currently manage from amarok (1.4.6).  everything is fine except that,
> > with ca. 20 cd's per book, 20 tracks per cd, harry potter now makes up
> > about 20 percent of my music collection.  When i put the ipod on
> > 'shuffle', i get harry every fifth song, which is ANNYING, to say the
> > least.  i'd like to convince the ipod that these tracks are not music
> > but audiobooks (whatever that really means).
> 
>      Why are you using something that you don't have control over?
> 

because there are certain things that rockbox can't do, and because the
ipod is a family possession, not my own.

the emphasis on individual control in the free software discourse often
ignores the fact that the world we inhabit is _social_, and that every
social act involves the relinquishing of some aspects of governance.  

-- 
Matt Price
History Dept
University of Toronto
matt.price-H217xnMUJC0sA/PxXw9srA at public.gmane.org
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