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Here is what I have found to be an extremely useful tip in continueing to enjoy Audible content.

Firstly, I hate thier player. It takes forever to load and frequently it loses my place. The Audible Manager doesnt recognize my device half the time and it is almost impossible to use.

Here is the complete workaround which has solved all of my problems.

PocketMind Pocket Player has full support for audible codec 3, and they claim to be working of getting permission from audible to support codec 4.
Install the audible player software and license the device like normal, then never use it. Pocketplayer will read the license file and let you listen to your audio book, it supports as many formats as you want and hardware button can easily be mapped to anything you want. I have never lost a bookmark and it supports microdrive buffering.

You still need to you the Audible manager software to download the books, but once they are downloaded just copy them to your device from c:\progra~1\audible\programs\. You can put them anywhere you want on the pda, and add them to playlists just like any other file, mp3, whatever.


Definately worth checking out as without it I would have personally gone to audible.com hq and burned the place to the ground in frustration and having to hard reset several times trying to get thier lousy software to work. okay not really but it would have made me feel better, because the customer support left something to be desired.

As it is I am perfectly content with this setup and go through my 2 books a month from audible happily.