Playing and bookmarking M4B files from Downpour

Possible?

Downpour files: http://www.downpour.com/kbase/

What is an M4B File? http://pcsupport.about.com/od/fileextensions/f/m4bfile.htm

No, those are Apple proprietary files that SanDisk didn’t support on the Clip+. A Clip Zip might play them. 

Expand the first Technical Questions in your knowledge base link for more info. 

If you have iTunes on your computer, try navigating to those files, highlighting them, going to Advanced and then Create mp3 Version. I’m not sure if you will be able to or not–if they have digital rights garbage in them you may have to just download again. 

The tech questions sugggest that there’s  a setting on Downpour to get  mp3 files as your downloads. Find it and get those instead of m4B. 

Sorry, my intention was to open this thread in the Clip Zip section. Can we move it? Thanks.

When signing up for Downpour you get one free credit equals one free audiobook. I do not have my Zip yet, but you may want to try if it works. :slight_smile:

You may need to change the file extension to m4a if the files will allow that. Or convert them to mp3.

Note that while the Zip player DOES support .m4a files, it will not play long files such as audiobook files tend to be (10 minutes or so seems to be the max). Best to download them in .mp3 format if at all possible. :wink:

M4A = AAC, as far as I know. So the Zip will not play even music files longer than 10 minues in AAC? Strange. Is 10 minutes an official or unofficial limit?

@market wrote:

M4A = AAC, as far as I know. So the Zip will not play even music files longer than 10 minues in AAC? Strange. Is 10 minutes an official or unofficial limit?

Just the way it seems to work. There is no ‘offical’ statement from SanDisk on this; I’m just going by what others have experienced and reported. It has trouble with longer AAC files.