I actually like Audible quite a lot. Never had problems with them for
any of my MP3 players. Mostly I use Audible with my iPod. The
quality of the books is good, and while I'm not a fan of DRM either,
it is a reality we have to deal with. If you can name a service that
has anywhere close to the selection of Audible for audio books to
download DRM free, I'm all ears. You say there are better ones out
there. Let's here them? And Podio books don't cut it. They're great
for what they are, but I want to read the latest Stephen King or Terry
Brooks. For the very reasonable cost of Audible, I can live with the
DRM. Plus, you can burn books to CD if you really need to axe the DRM
badly enough. Right now i get two audio boo credits per month for
$21.95. That's less than half the cost of most audio books on CD.
Josh de Lioncourt
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On 19 May, 2008, at 7:13 PM, erik burggraaf wrote:
Laughs, Fwow darcy. I'm startin to feel like a great big winer
here, but let me dispatch all this with a couple of short rejoinders.
I don't use audible. Never have, probably never will. It's a
terrible system and there are much better download services out
there. Amazon just bought audible out, so there is hope on the
horizon, but audible as it stands sounds terrible, and comes locked
down against all of my mp3 players, for my two major complaints.
In vlc, I can press command shift O, and hit enter on a folder which
has my book in it, and the files in that folder will play in the
right order. No fuss, no muss It also has a jump to time function
built in so no need to install the add on, although the script from
Tim's site does look quite nifty. I'm sure I can make smart play
lists if I had to, but I do... Not... Need, to make smart play
lists. That's just baggage.
Best,
Erik
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