[bookport] Re: Choice of Audible file formats?
- From: Peter Rand <peter.rand@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: bookport@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sun, 17 Oct 2004 08:54:09 +0200
Albert,
I'd be pleased to do that if you pay the difference between dial-up and
broadband: $10 vs. $40 per month
(or, an extra $360 per year just to download books in Type 4 format?).
Peter
albert griffith wrote:
>Peter, one way to overcome this problem with download time is to switch to a
>broad band connection.
>----- 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?
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>: Larry/Rob,
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>: 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.
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>: 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
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>: 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.
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>: Peter
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