Hi Sarah, one piece of advice re the archos, you can indeed play audible books, I have a similar device and have converted the files very successfully.
1. Download Goldwave, the sound editor, if you don't already have it. 2. Register it, as you're gunna want to keep it. 3. Install it. 4. Install the lame encoder if it's not already on your system, if you've got anything like winamp, CDexe, and so on, then it will already be there, and goldwave will find it. 5. Open the programme you will have an empty editing screen. 6. hit alt-f then go down to open. press "enter" and you'll have the open file dialogue. 7. use the browser to find the directory where your audible files are kept. Note: if you've still got the defaults set, it will be C:\program files\audible\download\ 8. Click on one of the files in there, (not in the in progress directory) and the file will open. Note that this will take some minutes, as the programme converts the file first to .wav format. 9. go back into the file menu, select save as, and change the name to something which gets rid of all the extra crap that audible insert into there file names. You don't need to put the .mp3 extension in. 10. tab through the dialogue until you get to file types. Select mp3 from the list that appears. 11. continue through the dialogue until you get to attributes. it may be the next tab, but I can't check immediately as I don't have access to it on this computer. 12. Select an appropriate sample rate and bit rate for your book. I'd suggest that 22500 and 48KBS would be ample, though the equivalent quality of MP3's isn't as good as .ogg files of the same bit-rate. If it were .ogg, I'd suggest 35KBPS as being fine, however I don't think the archos players will play ogg vorbis files. Basically have a play and decide how low you're prepared to go. You might need to check that your archos will play lower rate MP3 files, I've never used the device. 13. click save, having first checked where the file will be saved to, and changing that if necessary. I tend to save mp3's in my normal audio books folder, and leave the audible books right where they are, out of the way of anything else. 14. Presumably you can simply use windows explorer or my computer to transfer the files to the archos. Question from a total, how the hell do you manage to navigate your way round one of those hard disk MP3 players? I have the odyssey from edigital, and whilst it has speech recognission for the file names, unless the filenames are formatted correctly it doesn't work. Also you can't browse, and there's no access to the menus. as I said, but it's stayed in the cupboard since it nearly had an impromptu and hard meeting with a wall. I just can't work out what I've selected, change the menu options, or browse what's on the disk. I here these amazing blind people ! grin, saying that they remember what's on their HD player, but I'm sorry, my parents didn't pay for that upgrade at birth, and it can't be fitted now I expect. Other listers will doubtless point out that you can add effects, edit the sound file and so on, but I'm giving you a simple method to start. It's not essential to register immediately, as you can do 150 commands with the unregistered version per session, with an overall count of 3000 commands before you have to register. HTH, and if you need any further help, I'm happy to do so. Rob and Nails -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Sarai and Rosie Sent: 26 May 2004 04:20 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: accessable site to download mp3's Hi guys: I finally have time to get back on this list. A while ago I asked for accessible mp3 players. Well, after much help from this group, I bought the Archos mp3 player/recorder. I like it. One drawback is it can't play books from audible.com. Oh well, my question is I am looking for an accessible and legal site to download mp3's that I can put on my player. There are so many sites with software that you have to download that I'm not sure what would be the best. I don't want to crash my computer either. I use jaws and Windows XP. Thanks for the help, Sarai and Rosie, Proverbs 3:5,6 "Trust in the Lord with all your heart, And lean not on your own understanding; In all your ways acknowledge Him, And He shall direct your paths." _______________________________________________ PC-Audio List Help, Guidelines, Archives and more... http://www.pc-audio.org To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- Incoming mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.690 / Virus Database: 451 - Release Date: 22/05/2004 --- Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.690 / Virus Database: 451 - Release Date: 22/05/2004 _______________________________________________ PC-Audio List Help, Guidelines, Archives and more... http://www.pc-audio.org To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
