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Downloading Audiobooks - need help
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Posted by: freedom_33604

Hello - I'm a newbie, just got my VX8100 a couple of days ago. I bought the Music Essentials kit and a 512 mini-SD card and sucessfully managed to download an audiobook from my public library's Website and transfer it to my VX8100, however, when I try to play it, I get the following error:

PLAYER ERROR

Unable to play
[title of book]

mid.wma

I enabled my phone's mp3 player - but I was able to listen to music before I did this. I saved the audiobook to my PC using the extension .mid. It still transferred as mid.wma, though.

I'm able to listen to music, but the audiobook won't work! What can I do?
Thanks!

Posted by: mikemilw

I am not sure about the WMA format for an audiobook. I would try to encode it as an MP3 format (use Audacity or something similar to convert). Then transfer the file to your MiniSD card. That should work then.

Posted by: freedom_33604

Thanks, I'll try it! That audacity audio editor and recorder looks fantastic!

Posted by: gemniii

Just to revive an old thread - has anyone had success with overdrive audiobooks to an 8100?

Posted by: bronsoja

looks like the overdrive audiobooks are just audiobooks in wma format with DRM. I think you would need to strip off the DRM before it can play on the 8300.