Is it good for listening to WMA audiobooks
180310
WARNING: According to the representative that I just spoke with, it will NOT work with Audible. I wish that I knew this prior to purchase!
180311
Yes. I just bought one and borrowed books from the Public Library and transferred without any problems. Great sound.
180312
No it doesn't "work very well with the WMA format." The DRM type WMA format won't play on this device.
180313
Yes; be aware, however, that it may categorize them under music. Other than that, it works very well with the WMA format.
1272828
Not easily. I listen to podcast and find the rewinding or fast forwarding process to be very clunky. Thankfully the podcast are short so re-listening to something doesn't take too much time. I would think it would be hard to listen to audio books this way.
216994
I have one and would not recomend it for audiobooks. The controls are poorly designed and it's impossible to fast foward and rewind in the same track.
1835963
It only plays MP3 files; suggest you use Audacity to convert your wma format into mp3 format
1104541
I''m using just for listening to music, but sound is great, that''s why I think you can use it for audio books also.
583488
Yes, you can listen to music while reading a book or browsing - hope that helps!
223980
I received this MP3 player as a gift and also really wanted to play audio books on it. Unfortunately I waited too long to try out that feature. From what I can tell it will download and play MP3 audio books but NOT WMA audiobooks which is most of what my library has. Its too late to return it... even if I wanted to go through the hassle of trying to return a gift. So I guess I'll give this to my daughter and go back to looking for a player that will play my books. Good Luck!
524696
Beast, love how you say that. Audio books work very well for me. Good features; pick up where you left off, option to speed up or slow down the speed up the audio. Just awesome. As you know you have to find some way of downloading the audio book (i used youtube). I dnt knw about audible and this player mixing
88994
Sorry Thelma, I bought it for a gift to my younger sister, not sure about how the audio books work on it right now
2014264
I don't know about the audio WMA format... mine were MP3. I did how ever play wma for music... so I would say , yes...
1649007
Yes, it's free from the app store. No, it will not play wma. WMA is a Microsoft codec; and they are huge rivals, of course.
193979
I concur with CJ. I can't speak for DRM (I don't go near the stuff) but it definitely has good auto-resume. The resume gets my stamp of approval for audiobook listening.
1885062
I haven't tried audio books on it, just music but audio books are trickier. They have to be in a compatible format and there is more than one. Sometimes I can't use audio books from the public library because of the format. If you are trying to do Kindle, you may need to get an APP. I am surprised at the poor response from Audible. I have usually had good luck with them. Maybe the techs from Pyle can help you find out which audio book format you need to put them on the player or if it is possible at all. Good luck.
524697
I don't use audible?, you can load mp3 audio books and they play just fine. So far the main complaint that I have about this player is the buttons are very sensitive and it's almost required to lock the controls out to listen to the whole story.
1328398
Yes, you can download and listen to audio books if they are in a digital format such as mp3, wma, wav, audible, etc.
1717544
Maybe! You need to know what format your audiobook is in. A true audiobook will have an extension of ".m4b" which I have not tested. This is a special "flavor" of the mpeg-4 standard. It has samples of James Patterson's books, which are in the mp3 format that it will play. So if your audiobook is in the mp3 format it will play. It does also play e-books, which are not the same thing.
1030577
Yes. The audio quality is good on this machine -- when it works -- but I have owned several, and they break easily. The one I owned most recently broke after four months of use.