When I upload my audio book (with Windows player 10) to the sansa express, they get stored under the albums and not under audio books.
What’s wrong?
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Audiobooks is meant for books from Audible.com if im not mistaken. Loading any other audiobooks onto the player would be the same as loading a regular mp3. Theres no way for your player to know the difference between the two. Audible.com files come off as .AA instead of .MP3 or .WMA.
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thanks. i have been tearing out my hair trying to get my books into the audiobooks section. FYI. Our library allows us to download a certain number of audiobooks for MP3 players. snow country here and it sure beats going to library. Online audio book library services and MP3 players are the best for snow bound folks.
I’m very glad I browsed several pages of this forum and found out about the Audio book question, and the answer. I just received my Sansa Express today, and downloaded two James Patterson mysteries from our local library via Overdrive.com that works in conjuction with our library resources. It sure is great to not have to drive to the library to check out audio books! (or return them)
I purchased the Sansa Express just to use for this purpose. I was totally confused as to why my downloads didn’t go to the Audiobook section of the Sansa—Now, I know. I’m not going to join Audible books when I can get free downloads from my library–and it’s O.K.— they can reside in the “music” section. Thank you for sharing this very helpful information.
Angierk(or anyone who knows the solution),
I am also trying to use my Sansa Express to play audiobooks from the Overdrive.com utility, but when I transfer the audiobooks to my Sansa Express and try to play the audio book, the Sansa tells me “Lisence Expired”. Did you have a similar problem? Do I need to make some sort of firmware change to my Sansa to play the overdrive audiobooks?
thank you!! this helped me out as well
I’m truly a “newbie” in working with my Sansa Express and audio books, so I hope you can help. I downloaded several audo books to my PC from out local library using their software package called OverDrive to my Sansa Express, and that seemed to work. I then did a “transfer” of these files to my Sansa Express (actually the expansion card), but I can’t get any of these play. When I look at “System Info”, it shows zero for number of audio books. I also notice that under the “Music” menu, there is a selection for “Audio Books”, but selecting that option shows that it is “Empty”. How do I get my Sansa Express to recognize these books so that I can play them? The user guide that I have doesn’t mention very much about audio books.
@gunner1964 wrote:
I’m truly a “newbie” in working with my Sansa Express and audio books, so I hope you can help. I downloaded several audo books to my PC from out local library using their software package called OverDrive to my Sansa Express, and that seemed to work. I then did a “transfer” of these files to my Sansa Express (actually the expansion card), but I can’t get any of these play. When I look at “System Info”, it shows zero for number of audio books. I also notice that under the “Music” menu, there is a selection for “Audio Books”, but selecting that option shows that it is “Empty”. How do I get my Sansa Express to recognize these books so that I can play them? The user guide that I have doesn’t mention very much about audio books.
Overdrive audiobooks are placed under the music menus and not under '“Audio Books”. Overdrive files are WMA file format and play just as any other music file. Selecting the “Artist” will list the books by author and selecting “Album” will list the books by title.
Only books downloaded from Audible.com will appear in the Audio Books menu.
I also use Overdrive for my audio books. I haven’t had any problems listening to them on my express but every time I turn it on I have to refind my place in the book. Any suggestions on how to just continue where I left off?
I know this is an old post but hopefully you’ll get a notice of the reply.
To resume playback with the express, you need to turn it off while it is playing. When you turn it back on, it will pick up from that spot. It’s weird but that’s the only way I know of to get it to resume. Keep in mind, you can’t skip around to other tracks (say, listen to music for a while) then come back to a spot in the audiobook. Also, if you connect the express to a computer and add/remove files, it will rescan the files when you turn it on it will not automatically resume playback of the last track. However, you can still resume. Just navigate to the track you were listening to and hit play. It will pick up where it left off. However it will resume playback at that point on any track so make sure you pick the right chapter.
For example, say you have chapters 1 through 15 loaded and you’re listening to chapter 15 at 10:32. While playing, you turn off the express, plug the it into your computer, remove chapters 1 through 14, and add chapters 16 through 25. When you turn the express on, it will scan the database and go to the menu rather than resume playback. You have to select chapter 15 and hit play to resume at 10:32. However, if you select chapter 16 (or 19 or 22) by mistake, it will begin playing that track at 10:32 so make sure you pick the right one.
Library books via Overdrive come in large chunks of about an hour or so. This makes it awkward to get back to where you were IF you do not Pause and Shut Down carefully. You can end up back up at the beginning of the file and have to FFWD to where you think you stopped. This can take quite a while holding the button with patience.
With MP3 splitting utilities you can trim the file down to managable sizes of 3 or 4 minutes each and then load them into your Sansa. BUT so far in my experience they all come in as the same name even though you have appended a track number to the file names. So it is hard to be able to select the right track unless you have counted where you were before you shut down.
Does anyone know how to cause a track number to show up?
@kr7l wrote:
Does anyone know how to cause a track number to show up?
Your player is using tags to display and order track titles. It is not using filenames. (For filename access, you’d need a player that has the option for “Folder” access, which are a minority of players.)
In particular, it’s using the two tags “Title” and “Track”, with the sort order “Title”, then “Track” within title. You have to renumber the tracks (or titles, but that’s probably more kludgy). The free Mp3tag program can do this (Under File, “Change directory” to the directory with your files ordered the way you want, then under “Tools”, use the “Auto-numbering wizard” to sequentially number the tracks). Or instead of mp3tag, you probably you can do this in your music management program of choice.
Most OverDrive audiobooks are in protected WMA format, so I’m assuming you’ve solved that problem if you’ve already split them into smaller fragments. Or you are just listening to OverDrive MP3 audiobooks.
For example, I have an eleven-part OverDrive audiobook “Breach of Trust”. OverDrive gives them 11 different Titles,
“Breach of Trust - Part 01”,
“Breach of Trust - Part 02”,
…
“Breach of Trust - Part 11”
If you split those parts into subparts like you want to do, you have a couple of options regarding putting your audiobook subparts in directory(s), in preparation for renumbering tags using the auto-numbering wizard tool:
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Put all the subparts in the same directory. You’ll get continuous track numbers.
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Put “… Part 01” subparts in one directory, “… Part 02” segments in another directory, etc. Then run the wizard in each directory. You can start up track numbering of “… Part 02” segments at “1” this way.
Either way works. Either way also requires you to rename every file, so that they get ordered properly in your tagging program.
It sounds like your player only resumes if you pause and manually shut down first. You might learn the drill soon, as opposed to all the work of splitting and retagging. Perhaps also your player does fast-forward at two speeds: slow when you FF while playing, faster when you FF when paused. Alternatively, you could purchase a cheap player that has a better resume function, like the Clip/Clip+/Fuze (not necessarily the Fuze+ --read up on that one’s resume functioning first before buying, to make sure it’s ok for you).
Another option is to Rockbox your player, if it’s available for your player. Rockbox can only play MP3 files, not protected WMA files. But it has good resume, and folder access.
