[bookport] Re: Choice of Audible file formats?
- From: "James Jolley" <james.jolley1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <bookport@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sat, 16 Oct 2004 16:51:44 +0100
Hi,
The only other way round it would be for APH to modify there audio format
dlls. They could possibly cheat by taking in the format 1 file and
converting it to a mp3 thus avoiding issues with the development.
Best
-James------ Original Message -----
From: "Walt Smith" <walt@xxxxxxxxxx>
To: <bookport@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Saturday, October 16, 2004 4:07 PM
Subject: [bookport] Re: Choice of Audible file formats?
>I strongly suspect that with the sampling rate that's used by the BP, a
> smaller format would be virtually unusable. This is why I love a broadband
> connection. <grin>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Peter Rand" <peter.rand@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> To: <bookport@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Saturday, October 16, 2004 5:48 AM
> Subject: [bookport] Choice of Audible file formats?
>
>
> Larry/Rob,
>
> I know that Book Port can only handle Audible files in Type 4 format at
> the moment.
> Unfortunately, Type 4 files have the lowest level of compression, which
> results in huge files
> & very time-consuming downloads.
>
> Here are the various sizes of a single Audible file in the 4 different
> formats at Audible.com:
>
> Type 1= 7 MB
> Type 2= 11 MB
> Type 3= 22 MB
> Type 4= 43 MB
>
> It takes me about 35 minutes to download a 7 MB file in Type 1 format.
> The same file, in Type 4 format, would take me well over 2 1/2 hours to
> download. Of
> course, I would vastly prefer smaller files and faster downloads.
>
> Is there any chance that Book Port will allow users to play other,
> more-highly
> compressed Audible formats in the future? That would allow for far
> faster downloads,
> and also conserve the precious storage space available on the Book Port.
>
> Peter
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