Organizing Audiobooks

Pick the folder with your audiobooks. Voice looks at how the files inside are organized and shows you the books it found before adding them. If the books don't look right, tap Change how books are found and pick one of the three options below. You can change this later in the settings under Audiobook folders by tapping the folder. Your progress and bookmarks stay with your books.

1. Every folder is a book

Each folder within your selected folder is a separate audiobook. Any audio files directly inside the selected folder (not in a subfolder) are audiobooks as well.

Example:

/Audiobooks
├─ TheHobbit/
│   ├─ chapter1.mp3
│   └─ chapter2.mp3
├─ MobyDick/
│   ├─ chapter1.mp3
│   └─ chapter2.mp3
└─ LittlePrince.mp3

Voice recognizes three audiobooks: TheHobbit, MobyDick, and the single-file book LittlePrince.

2. One book

The selected folder itself is one audiobook, with files inside treated as chapters. This includes files in subfolders, such as CD 1 and CD 2.

Example:

/PrideAndPrejudice
├─ Chapter1.mp3
├─ Chapter2.mp3
└─ Chapter3.mp3

Voice recognizes one audiobook: PrideAndPrejudice.

3. Folders are authors

First-level folders represent authors (or series), and their subfolders represent audiobooks.

Example:

/Authors
├─ Woolf/
│   ├─ MrsDalloway/
│   │   ├─ chapter1.mp3
│   │   └─ chapter2.mp3
│   └─ ToTheLighthouse/
│       ├─ chapter1.mp3
│       └─ chapter2.mp3
└─ Tolkien/
    └─ TheHobbit/
        ├─ chapter1.mp3
        └─ chapter2.mp3

Voice recognizes authors (Woolf, Tolkien) and their audiobooks (MrsDalloway, ToTheLighthouse, TheHobbit).