Audio Book

MP3 players Sansa Clip | Clip+
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I just bought a Sansa Clip MP3 2 G.  I initially intended to use it strictly for Audio Book and my Shuffle for my music but I decided to move it all to the Sansa.   Here lies my problem.  I use Windows Vista.  I download my music and Books from Limewire.  Last night I downloaded 2 books from Limewire.  When I moved them from I tunes to the Sansa it put them in my Music folder.   I want them in the Audibook folder on the Sansa.  Can anyone help?  I have YIM messenger as well as AIM if need be.

Thanks

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74 hits and no responses???  I NEED HELP PEEPS!

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If your audiobooks are not in .AA format (proprietary to Audible.com) they will not show up in the audiobook folder as the folder currently only recognizes .AA files as audiobooks.

This being said, we should have a firmware out soon that will allow you to place an audio file into the audiobook folder on the clip and allow that file to act as a true .AA file (it will also show up in Audiobooks on the player’s GUI)

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Firstly, the Audiobook folder is currently reserved for Audible .aa format files.

Your problem may be in the p2p ■■■■- Limewire.  Unless you have a digital Ouija board, who knows what condition the ripped files are in.  Also, the .aa format requires synchronization with a valid Audible account- not data slipped under the door.  The current Audiobook folder is for Audible files.

In the coming firmware, there is a planned separate audio book / podcast folder.

Have you tried playing the book by loading it into the “Music” folder?

Bob  :neutral_face:

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So have this feature been implemented? I’d like the ability to have non-Audible audiobooks appear in the “Audiobooks” category in the player’s menu. And I don’t want audiobooks to be shuffled with regular music.

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@neutron_bob wrote:

the .aa format requires synchronization with a valid Audible account- not data slipped under the door. The current Audiobook folder is for Audible files.

Yikes! That’s a little big brother-esque. Thanks for the heads up. Think I’ll pass on the audiobooks (not that I was ever really interested in them in the 1st place but to hell with sync a ‘valid Audible acct’ bidness ;) 

 

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The latest firmware update does address this issue and does allow you to copy audiobook files (not just audible…I copied just plain old mp3 files) into the folder: Audiobooks. There is also a Podcasts folder, but I have yet to use that one.

The files that you copy into the Audiobooks folder will get automatically bookmarked once you start to play one of them. You can then switch out to your music files, and whenever you come back to the audiobook folder files, you will be prompted to “Resume Playback” or “Start from Beginning”…sa-weet, eh?

The only issue I ran into was that the audiobooks that I loaded were broken into several (often many) separate mp3 files per book. Using the method I just described, you would still need to recall which sub-file you last were listening to, in order to resume the playback at the correct place in your book…make sense?

Anyway, a simple way around this (thanx to tk421 in this thread: http://forums.sandisk.com/sansa/board/message?board.id=clip&thread.id=6790)was to just merge the individual sections (files) of the book into one large mp3 file. This way when I return from listening to some tunes and “resume playback” on my book, I just select the overall book file (the merged one) and it starts exactly where I left off last time I was there (it’s bookmarked!).

This is a very useful upgrade to this player, if you use it at all for audiobooks, that are not from Audible.

There may be other ways around the multiple-file/merge issue with books, maybe subfolders work…dunno…I just merged them with “MP3 Merger” (freeware)…I’m sure there are numerous ways to do this as well. This one works so simply, so I stuck with it.

In summary, if you are thinking of *not* buying the Sansa Clip becauseof concerns of audiobook bookmarking, etc, scratch that concern off your list. It is a great audiobook player.

Message Edited by yoyorobbo on 05-27-2008 11:43 AM

Message Edited by yoyorobbo on 05-27-2008 11:48 AM

Message Edited by yoyorobbo on 05-27-2008 11:49 AM

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Okay, so I’m thinking of buying the newer Clip, but all of the talk about audiobook issues scares me off.  I do assume some of the issues have been fixed in the new model; however, I have never owned an MP3 player, so know nothing of the various formats, downloading tunes or books to an MP3 player, etc.

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Simple question:

1.  I have several books on CD to which I’ve never listened.      How exactly would I download them to a Clip if I buy it?

2.  I will obviously be downloading books from the internet eventually (Amazon? where?)    How exactly do I do that?  (I assume it would be best to download them to the memory card???  Is that done by leaving it in the clip?  What is “Audible”?

3.  Is there an informative site out there that might explain this step-by-step?

(I told you I was new to all of this!!!)

Thanks a million for helping me out on this!