Chris Stauffer at myITForum.com

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Making Podcasts from Book cd's work on your Zune

 Ok so i purchased the new microsoft book

Microsoft® System Center Configuration Manager 2007 Administrator's Companion


The book came with a CD that had podcasts for each chapter. I tryied to put them on my Zune so i could listen to them at work or where ever but my Zune would not see them.

 

I ended up posting on the Zune boards to see what i was doing wrong. Here is what i found out.

If you change the file (MP3) genre to Podcast the Zune software will see them and sync them with your Zune.

One thing to keep in mind with this book the podcasts are not numbered so you may want to add a title and a chapter number to them as well so you can figure out what is what on your zune. I also put all of them is their own folder so that the zune grouped them all together.

 

Hope this helps someone else.

 

Chris Stauffer <>< 

Published Monday, March 17, 2008 2:49 PM by cstauffer
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# re: Making Podcasts from Book cd's work on your Zune@ Tuesday, March 18, 2008 6:28 AM

I'm still grumbling about Audible books.  Is there a way to transfer those to the Zune should I get one?

Btw Chris, Great tip!

by rporter

# re: Making Podcasts from Book cd's work on your Zune@ Tuesday, March 18, 2008 8:03 PM

I just read about audible books. This trick works for them as well and it allows you to treat them as podcasts so that you can pause them.

I dont have an audible book to try it on though