Hi David,
I just tried all this, and it works fine with VoiceOver. I have a
downloaded MP3 file playing right now on my iPod Nano 4G, and the
titles are announced. You'll need to have a library card set up with
your local public library, and the library needs to subscribe to
OverDrive.com for audiobook downloads and also have subscription
selections in the category "OverDrive MP3 audiobook file" -- not just
WMA audiobook files.''
The OverDrive console installation for the Mac is fine; I ran this
first.
When you check out a downloadable book, you have to download a license
file (that will expire at the end of your checkout period). This will
show up in your Safari downloads directory (e.g., you can find it with
Command-Option-L and open it in Finder from the Downloads window, but
it will probably just go to the "Downloads" folder under your user
account.) The license file will have a name that starts with the
title of the book, and ends with an extension type of ".odm". I
double-clicked it (by holding down Command, Option, and Shift keys,
and tapping the space bar twice) to open the OverDrive Console.
When you download parts of books, I didn't notice a progress bar, but
there might be one on the Console window. You can go to your
"Documents/My Media/MP3 Audiobooks" folder in Finder and look under
the folder created for each book to see whether the parts are there,
There's a "Transfer" button that works to send the files to your
connected iPods. The help has information on command sequences to be
used in the case of the iPod Shuffle. You must have the checkbox to
"Manually manage your music" checked on the iPod to use the transfer.
Oddly, the tracks don't show up under Audiobooks -- you can find them
under the "Recently Added" smart playlist, or under Album (Book
Title), or Artitst (Author), or Genre, etc. but not under Audiobooks.
Hope this is of interest.
Cheers,
Esther
