audible format hours held Does anyone have an idea of how many total hours of the audible format the nano holds?
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I don't think that's an adequate comparison. Audiobooks are a lot less complex, soundwise. It takes more storage to hold a 70 minutes of songs than it takes to hold 70 minutes of a person reading.
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1 GB of storage space should hold about 70 hours of audible audio in format 4 (highest quality). So, a 1 GB nano would hold 70, 2GB about 140, and 4 GB about 280 hours. That's a lot of listening :-). I based this calculation on actual audiobooks downloaded from audible and the size and time numbers that iTunes gives me for those files.
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Well, I've been turning mine on/off (listening here & there) and in my own humble opinion, I get about 5 hours, give or take. now, the volume is low as it is next to me, but I do vaguely recall iPod hook-up at full-bore for a little under 2 1/2 hours. Considering the size of the M12, I'm impressed.
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I have Kindle on mine, works great. Don't know about audible but I would think it would work fine.
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Here's the dowside of using a Shuffle to listen to books - it is really easy to accidently lose your place in the book. When this happens, it's a pain-in-the-neck to get back to where you were. I know you can lock the shuffle so this doesn't happen but then it's a hassle to pause it if, say, someone wants to talk to you. I have used a Nano for about 4 or 5 years mainly to listen to books. There are several advantages besides being able to see on the screen exactly where you are in the story. I love the sleep timer feature. I set it for 15 minutes and if I happen to fall asleep, I don't run the battery down and I know I only have to go back, at most, 15 minutes. This is not something you can do with a Shuffle.
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Try a public library website. Cuyahoga County in Cleveland and Fairfax County in Northern Virginia both allow patrons to download audiobooks through various formats. They can be loaded through Windows Media Player, although it seems very non-user friendly to me. Also, the files don't seem to hold their place. There may be commercial software to help with that process. On the Audible.com concern, maybe if we Audible.com subscribers banded together and began campaigning Sandisk to work with Audible.com to develop plug-ins, we'd get the issue solved! I sent a couple emails to Audible's technical support, and they basically said the ball's in Audible's (and my) court. Audible listeners of the forum unite!
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I think if want to download audible files to it, you'll just have to convert it to MP3. Hope this helps!
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Unreal. Hours and hours. Have not reached capacity yet. Am using my Microsoft PC and MP3. Feel much safer at work!
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It only takes ITunes material. I do not know if you can obtain an audible book.
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The 3rd generation iPod Nano has 24 hours battery life for Music, and 5 hours for Video.WMA is a proprietary audio format created by Microsoft. AAC (what the iTunes Store uses) is not proprietary and was designed as the successor to MP3. AAC is used by the Playstation 3, Nintendo Wii and Nokia Nseries phones.iTunes for Windows allows you to automatically convert any WMA files you have into either MP3 or AAC files.
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Buddy, Thank you so very much! Having spent too much time on this already, you have saved me countless more hours of time and hassle. The number of MP3 books available from my library is skimpy compared to the number of WMA books, but at least I will no longer be pursuing an unattainable goal! Thanks for your kindness and your knowledge.
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I ran just Pandora for over 4 hours with Bluetooth and WiFi on. While playing Skyrim on ultra, it lasted about 45 minutes. But on both tests, I set the laptop to sleep if the battery gets below 10%. I think it would last around 2 hours, if not more, depending on what your normal use is (15 web pages, while listening to music, and 3 excel files will take more battery than just 1 web page and 1 MS Word doc).
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Yes indeed! I tested a bunch of different programs and they all worked fine inclusing Audible. :)
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Thanks for the input folks. I finally gave up and bought an Ipod nano. It does great and makes my husband a very happy listener.
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Hi,I don't know exactly but I think It last about 8 hours in louder volume...Cheers!
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Mine only lasted barely an hour with ipod at 3/4 volume and the NuForce amp set on low. It may be defective so I don't know for sure. Product description says battery included. From what I gather it is not user assessable. I may return it after 3 trials of overnight full charge and doesn't last more than an hour.
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yes. you can have in I believe 12 or 24 hour format. I bought it as a gift. It was extremely easy to set up. it told time, steps taken, how far you walked(mile or kilometers) calories burned and heart rate. works well too.
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Sorry, part of my answer was left off. I haven't timed running time. But I do ski all day listening to it and I still seem to have plenty of battery time left.