[dean_shan]

Granted the Audible software is a little buggy but the service is great. They have very high quality books. I would recommend Audible to anyone who enjoys audio books.

[dean_shan]

Granted the Audible software is a little buggy but the service is great. They have very high quality books. I would recommend Audible to anyone who enjoys audio books.

[jhmurray]

[quote="silver99
Is it not possible for Microsoft to develop a 'generic' version of Windows Mobile to run on 'all' devices? Vendors could then supply minimal software updates to enhance their machines (ie. for specialized video accelerators).

Silver[/quote]

As far as I know, I have the current versions of Pocket Streets and Pocket Money from Microsoft and both work fine. Many other vendors of similar products for playing back Audio and Video have no problem with multiple machines. Writing to the Rom image cannot be such an insurmountable problem.

So why is it that I need to buy a new PPC?

John

[paris]

Originally Posted by muaddip

You have to call them to unsubscribe. It should have said so in the fine print when you subsrcibed, or if you do a search in the help. Actually it is right on the frontpage of the help, question 10, HERE is the direct link.

It is a very common practice with most companies, especially credit card companies, to make you call them to unsubscribe. That way, they can try to talk you out of unsubscribing or sign you up for something else.

Good Luck.

I am in Cyprus and i am not happy to call in the USA for do someting that SHOULD BE able to be done via the internet.! I subscribed throught the internet and i should be able to cancel my subscription the same way.

I am so pissed off that i am gonna record ALL my books that i bought, which are ALL best sellers, in mp3 format and distribute them on the internet.

Audible can you hear me? Yes these are the customers that you gain by being totally unprofessional. You cannot force people to be your customers, but you can certainly force them to go over the edge to get some satisfaction.

- Edit - just called them, waited for 5 min in the queue (international call) :roll: and canceled my subscription! going back? NOPE!!! Audible = good content + completly crap service!!!

[Brad Adrian]

I like the Audible content, but was disappointed that the don't support my Dell Digital Jukebox (which I really like). I just like having all of my listening content in one place, not some on my Pocket PC and some on my Jukebox.

Well, I'm just finishing up a step-by-step tutorial on how you can (finally) rip Audible content and reformat it for listening with WMP or any MP3 player. The resulting files are a lot bigger than the original Audible ones, but with a 20GB Jukebox, I've got plenty of room.

I'll try to get the procedure posted here within the next day or so.

[organon]

I've been an audible subscriber for many years, now. Long ago, they used to sell the hardware (theirs and others) as well as the content. I went thorugh a number of devices, including a Casio BE500 (?), which I got at a nice discount through the site. This was okay, but their software did, in fact, leave MUCH to be desired. The main bad things I remember were the fact that it took FOREVER to load when you had a large'ish file (mine were limited to 64MB at the time, since this was the limit of my MMC card), and that it would not record a bookmark unless you specifically pressed stop (as opposed to, say, turning the thing off or having the battery run down). Once the iPod came out with support for Audible, though, I dropped the PPC player like a hot potato and have absolutely loved the experience ever since. I've decided that a dedicated music/spoken word player is the way to go. Trying to put all of my eggs in one basket just never quite worked.

As for the encoding of audible content to MP3, I tried this as well. Actually, the best solution I found was to decode it using goldwave and record to WMA using windows media encoder (I think) and the same codec that audible uses (ACELP--incidentially the same one used by most digital cell phones). This resulted in files that were the same small size as the orignial AA files with no loss in audio quality. The problem was that WMP on the PPC didn't support this codec, nor did any other PPC player at that time. It may work on one of the newer players, though. Windows Media Audio 9 Voice and SPEEX are also codec options now that may produce acceptable quality/size results and may be more supported in the PPC environment.