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