Converting Audible Files For Sansa e200 Series Players
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Sansa e200 Series
I love my Sansa e270, but it aggravates me that they haven’t included Audible support. Thankfully, after research and my own trial and error, I’ve come to a solution.
First, though, let’s get a few things straight. This isn’t an article that shows you how to hack Audible files and share them on the Internet. You need to own the Audible files that you convert (since you need to install the Audible Manager on your PC). Second, this is for you to use on your Sansa (or, I suppose, any non-Audible supported player). The point is: this isn’t for piracy; this is for your own private use of your own, fully purchased Audible files.
Oh, yeah, and the usual disclaimer: I don’t take any responsibility for any damage or harm to your PC from these instructions. Use them at your own risk. Again, this is just for you to listen to your purchased Audible files, not share them. No file-sharing, boys and girls.
Okay, here’s what you’ll need:
* An older version of the Audible.com Manager
* A copy of Microsoft’s GraphEdit program
* Install the Audible Manager (you’ll need to uninstall any newer version on your PC). Unzip the GraphEdit program to a temporary location (if you’re not sure how to do that, then please Google it).
* After installing the Audible Manager, log in and validate your credentials.
* In the folder where you unzipped GraphEdit, run the register.bat
* Run GraphEdit.
* On the menu, go to File > Render Media File. Browse to the Audible file you want to convert, click on it, and press the “Open” button.
* On the graph, delete the final box labeled “Default DirectSound Device”
* On the menu, go to Graph > Insert Filters
* Scroll down to the listing “DirectShow Filters.” Expand this selection by clicking the plus sign next to it.
* Select “WAV Dest” and click the “Insert Filter” button.
* Drag the arrow from the output connector of the box labeled “Audible Words Codec” to the input connector of the “WAV Dest” box. GraphEdit
* Go to Graph > Insert Filter.
* Select “File Writer” and click “Insert Filter”.
* In the File Dialog box that pops up, give it a filename (ending in “.wav”) and place it in the location you want to save the file. When finished, click the “Open” button.
* Drag the arrow from the output connector of “WAV Dest” to the input connector of the box for file you will be creating.
* Once everything is connected, press the green “Play” button on the toolbar. Depending on the size of the audiobook, it will take a few minutes to finish.
* Since you won’t get a message when the file conversion is done, go to the folder through Explorer to the location you selected to save the converted file. Look at the file, and if you hit F5 (refresh) you will see the filesize changing. When the number stops changing, you know you’re done. Or just step away from you PC for several minutes. :)
Now you can convert the large WAV file to an MP3 and listen to it on your Sansa or other non-Audible-enabled digital audio player. There are plenty of free programs available to convert files from WAV to MP3; just search for them. Keep in mind that the WAV file that will be created can be rather large. It can be anywhere from 170MB for an hour-length program to over 1GB for an 8-hour program. I hope this helps, and let’s hope SanDisk will rectify this in the future by adding Audible support!
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