[bookport] Re: Choice of Audible file formats?
- From: "Walt Smith" <walt@xxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <bookport@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sat, 16 Oct 2004 11:09:54 -0400
Sent this before seeing Angie's message about proprietary formats. That
makes a lot of sense.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Walt Smith" <walt@xxxxxxxxxx>
To: <bookport@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Saturday, October 16, 2004 11:07 AM
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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