Not true!!! The Sansa Clip is actually the best mp3 player I have found for listing to audiobooks. Here is what you need to do. Download the latest firmware update on the Sandisk website. You must do this or it just won't work unless you are downloading books from Audible.
I use the Overdrive Media Console and download mp3 and WMA books from my state library. When you hit transfer, be sure it hit advanced options. Browse until you select the audiobook folder on your player. Then transfer to that.
The player will bookmark your last place on anything that is in your audiobook folder. You can easily switch back and forth between your music and book without losing your place! Love it!
It even has a sleep timer on it. I'm in heaven.
Hi all,
11-26-2010
07:05 PM
neutron_bob has written the definitive troubleshooting guide for 'synchronize to continue your music subscription,' here:
http://sansa.lithium.com/t5/Clip-Clip/synchronize-to-continue-your-music-subscription/m-p/188468
It seems to work for Sansa Clip and Sansa Fuze.
I download books on a desktop computer running Win XP Professional, thru Overdrive Media Console.
Here
are the notes I made of the process to fix my own Sansa Fuze player
with my system. Your solution may be slightly different with a
different operating system, etc;
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Thanks, Neutron Bob!!!
Your method works for Sansa Fuse as well!
To recap (for when I need to do this next year, and have forgotten how):
1) Switch Sansa Fuse to MTP Mode;
Settings > System Settings > USB Mode > MTP -- Leave the Sansa Fuze in MTP mode.
2) Plug the Sansa Fuze into the Computer, Confirm it is in MTP mode.
Start > My Computer -- Sansa Fuze appears under 'Other' , not with a drive letter.
3) Reset registry for Sansa Fuze
Start > Control Panel > System > Hardware > Device Manager > Portable Device
Select Sansa Fuze
Uninstall
Wait 30 seconds
4) Restart the Computer
5) Plug in Sansa Fuze
6) Start OverDrive Media Console
7) Download books from OverDrive Media Console to Sansa Fuze
I sympathize with geriwasson. My clip plays WMA audiobooks no problem, but it won't download or play MP3 audiobook files. I have to drag Netlibrary downloads into the audiobook folder via Windows and then find and play them in MTP mode. WTF? Surely MP3 audiobooks are very common??
Are you using Overdrive media console to get the books off the internet? If so, then when you are in Overdrive, hit the transfer button. Then hit next. Then hit advanced options. You will see the field called "player folder". Look at that. You will probably see that it is pushing your mp3 book to the "music" folder. Delete the word music and type "audiobooks" in its place. Then hit ok and then next. That will put the mp3 book in the audiobooks folder on your player. Then it should work fine. Just be sure you have downloaded the latest firmware update off their website first.
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Audiobooks cannot be played with sandisk products, sorry :(
Uh, actually ipod-mp3whiz, the sansa fuze plays audiobooks. I haven't tried it with other SanDisk products....
Try neutron_bob's solution, if you are having trouble with it;
http://sansa.lithium.com/t5/Clip-Clip/sy...
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I have a friend who has a Sandisk product and listens to audiobooks on it. Mine is a Clip Plus and it will download the book but will not play it. It downloaded in six sections but will not play any of them.
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