Table of Contents with minutes/track numbers?

[Regina]

Hi, I am listening to two anthologies right now and would love to find a table of contents that have the track numbers or minutes? I downloaded throught overdrive and the tracks/sections (via WMA) came unnamed. I want to skip over certain stories or back to certain stories and it is nearly impossible as I am getting lost in the audio book. I have already emailed my library and googled this, but no luck. Any ideas?

[Jeanie]

Regina wrote: "Hi, I am listening to two anthologies right now and would love to find a table of contents that have the track numbers or minutes? I downloaded throught overdrive and the tracks/sections (via WMA) ..."

No ideas, but this is frequently a problem that audiobook producers really need to address. I noticed a similar complaint in the reviews of The Sherlock Holmes Collection, Heirloom edition, where it's one long fifty plus hour book comprised of both books and short stories. A TOC would be invaluable. We need to send this as a suggestion to Audible, and any other audiobook producers we can think of. A PDF download at the very least would be an assist.

[Regina]

Yes, I would love a pdf download!

[John, Moderator]

Sorry, I'd say the only solution would be to use the Overdrive Manager's "Play(on computer)" function to make notes of each story's location.

[Regina]

Oh that is a good idea.

[Regina]

My library finally got back to me. I guess the TOC with minutes appears in the Overdrive App on the computer and on my phone. I always import directly to my phone from itunes, but this is good to know! Thanks for your ideas.

[Stephanie]

Inability to get to specific stories in an anthology is why I don't buy anthologies in audiobook form. My very FIRST audiobook that I bought from Audible in 2008 was an anthology (Thriller) and I found this drove me nuts. Never bought another of that type again.

For anthologies that I loved, I bought CDs, ripped a copy and used a program to create my own TOC. I was also able to eliminate all the author related stuff (I don't need a history of the author - just the story), which made relistening more enjoyable. Kindof like what Mp3s did for music - if you only like one song on an album, you only put the song you liked on your Mp3 player.

[John, Moderator]

I recently bought a story collection from Audible that loads onto my Fire with each entry as a separate chapter, showing the minutes for each. Not quite a real ToC but at least I can FF to the next one for stories that aren't working out.