Is there any way to get MC to force a 6th gen iPod to NOT put podcasts and aa audiobooks in the iPod's main categories for these file types, and instead put them under "Genres"? At the moment, 6th gen Classic iPods do not display these items under Genre>Audiobooks or Genre>Podcasts, and therefore do not allow more advanced browsing by Artist (i.e. Author) and Album (i.e. Episode or Book.) Instead, the iPods "Audiobooks" category is just a single, giant lump of ALL audiobooks (which is a MESS on my iPod), and while the "Podcast" category does offer browsing by "Artist," it still groups all podcasts by the same artist together, and it sorts them in descending order, which prevents continuous listenning from one to the next.
I figured out how to rectify this with mp3 audiobooks, which is to NOT tag them with the Media Sub Type "Audiobook." This results in them being placed under Genre>Audiobook on the iPod, and allows Artist>Album browsing. Unfortunately, this doesn't work for aa files, which the iPod Classic always removes from the Genre list. It also doesn't work for Podcasts, which are removed from the Genre list as long as a feed URL is present (which Podcasts have.)
Now that MC supports bookmarking of ANY file on the iPod, it would be really nice to have audiobooks and podcasts grouped under the "normal" lists so that they show up under "Genres" like they did with 5th gen iPods.
Thanks,
Larry