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 > > > > > >