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Billy - that Audible site says:
"any one of our 60,000 audiobooks each month to download to your iPod, iPhone, Kindle or 500+ MP3 players"
As I don't have any of those things, can you save it onto a computer & burn it to CD? Are computer CDs re-recordable or does a 40 hour audio book require 40ish CDs to listen to?
http://www.audible.co.uk/whatis?ie=UTF8&pf_rd_r=0S34C55E15GFWMH23EJT&pf_rd_m=A2YHV2RYTDNFG3&pf_rd_t=3201&pf_rd_i=1050&pf_rd_p=231166747&pf_rd_s=top-2
Where it says Annual - 12 or 24 books at once.
Do you still only get 1 or 2 books each month
Can you only have 12 or 24 books during the year?
Billy - that Audible site says:
"any one of our 60,000 audiobooks each month to download to your iPod, iPhone, Kindle or 500+ MP3 players"
As I don't have any of those things, can you save it onto a computer & burn it to CD? Are computer CDs re-recordable or does a 40 hour audio book require 40ish CDs to listen to?
yes a cd is only 80mins long so it would be a few.
And for your other post I think you can download all at once or take one a month they just give me £50 off a Kindle as I was going to get one anyway as I have joined for a year as I have been with them for almost a year on a monthly basis .
If you can save it to your hard drive, then if it's not already in MP3 format it will be the work of an instant to convert it into such.
MP3's are easily played on a PC (as you're probably aware), and the compression rate is usually about 10:1 so you'd get about 800 minutes onto your CD instead, as files instead of CD audio.
Hmmm that's interesting, could make it more worth my while then.
800 mins on a CD, what devilry is this. :evil: How come normal audio CDs are only 70-80mins long? Is the quality much lower then?
The quality loss on an MP3 is noticable on good stereo equipment. Something most peeps dont have. It tends to be very high frequency and low frequencies that are lost. For most people, again, not really a big deal. And with the average in ear headphones, not even going to make a nit of difference.
However, listen to the same track on a good stereo from a CD then listen to an MP3 and it sounds shit. Really bloody aweful. Dead, flat and just horrible. But hey ho.
However, listen to the same track on a good stereo from a CD then listen to a low bitrate MP3 and it sounds shit. Really bloody aweful. Dead, flat and just horrible. But hey ho.
MP3 is a lossy compression method, so yes you lose data and therefore absolute quality. It uses psycho-acoustic "tricks" to minimise the impact of chucking out a large portion of the original, and the "yes/no , can/can't tell" question is something that only the listener in their preferred listening environment can answer.
AAC is better, and those of an "Open Source" bent will talk of Ogg Vorbis. For pure quality, I believe that you need something like FLAC.
The downside is that you need a player that can handle playing back the files in whatever format you choose. Historically, you need a computer of some sort - but now that miniaturisation has done it's thing, you can get enough computing power and battery life into something the size of an iPod nano. Lots and lots of playback devices are MP3 compatible, for the more far-out formats you still need a computer to run the decoding software
I have had my Kindle delivered today so I will put a audio book on it to check it out. 
Nice one Billy.
Most of what you said there Nick, all though I'm sure it's 100% correct, makes no sence to me at all. The most modern play back thing I have is a CD player. Will a normal CD player play these 800 min mp3 recorded disk jobbies ok?
No. A "normal" CD player will only play standard Audio CD's (Red Book, IIRC). You'd need a CD player that boasted specifically of MP3 playback.
However, the computer you're accessing these forums on *will* be able to play them - and harnessed to a couple of suitable speakers should provide you with the aural pleasure that you seek
We'll have to get together and talk technical at come point!
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