Friday, June 27, 2003
Getting Audible To Work On Your Pocket PC 2003
Posted by Ed Hansberry in "ARTICLE" @ 05:00 AM
http://www.audible.com
I have been an Audible user since 1999. They have fantastic content, but their software is the absolute pits. In getting 3 new PCs in that time and probably a dozen Pocket PCs, I have never been able to just dock my device, activate it and use content. There is always a problem. Not to mention their Audible Player on the device is just about the worst piece of software I've ever used. It keeps launching when I dock my device. I don't know, I guess it assumes I want to listen some more while I synchronze my email. :roll:
Well, this week was no exception with my new iPAQ 2215. If you have a new 2003 device and use Audible content with MS Reader, read on.
• First, you are going to have to install Audible Manager 4.0 on your desktop, so if you don't have that, uninstall 3.x then upgrade to 4.0. That's right, Audible can't "upgrade" like normal software. You must uninstall losing all of your preferences.
• Now, install the Audible Player for the iPAQ 2002 device.
• Activate your device
• Transfer over something and verify that Audible Player 3.5 can see it and play it. If so, you have successfully activated your device. If not, scream, then call Audible to find out why it won't activate with their player.
• Now soft reset your device, uninstall Audible Player and soft reset again.
• Manually delete the following files from the Windows folder, because I'm not sure what their uninstaller removes except Audible from the list of installed applications:
aud_file.dll
ce_player_dll.dll
utils.dll
d_aud1.dll
cefaccess.dll
• Soft reset again, and find and remove any *.pls files that look like Audible files. Also remove any .FLS and .AA files.
• Dock your device and try transferring over content. Launch Reader. It should play.
It boggles my mind why, when the Pocket PC has a good player built into ROM, MS Reader, they insist on not playing well with it and spending resources on Audible Player.
I have been an Audible user since 1999. They have fantastic content, but their software is the absolute pits. In getting 3 new PCs in that time and probably a dozen Pocket PCs, I have never been able to just dock my device, activate it and use content. There is always a problem. Not to mention their Audible Player on the device is just about the worst piece of software I've ever used. It keeps launching when I dock my device. I don't know, I guess it assumes I want to listen some more while I synchronze my email. :roll:
Well, this week was no exception with my new iPAQ 2215. If you have a new 2003 device and use Audible content with MS Reader, read on.
• First, you are going to have to install Audible Manager 4.0 on your desktop, so if you don't have that, uninstall 3.x then upgrade to 4.0. That's right, Audible can't "upgrade" like normal software. You must uninstall losing all of your preferences.
• Now, install the Audible Player for the iPAQ 2002 device.
• Activate your device
• Transfer over something and verify that Audible Player 3.5 can see it and play it. If so, you have successfully activated your device. If not, scream, then call Audible to find out why it won't activate with their player.
• Now soft reset your device, uninstall Audible Player and soft reset again.
• Manually delete the following files from the Windows folder, because I'm not sure what their uninstaller removes except Audible from the list of installed applications:
aud_file.dll
ce_player_dll.dll
utils.dll
d_aud1.dll
cefaccess.dll
• Soft reset again, and find and remove any *.pls files that look like Audible files. Also remove any .FLS and .AA files.
• Dock your device and try transferring over content. Launch Reader. It should play.
It boggles my mind why, when the Pocket PC has a good player built into ROM, MS Reader, they insist on not playing well with it and spending resources on Audible Player.
