How Hear MP3 Audio Books While Walking? Need Help! (collection, cheap, instructions)

[Meemur]

Normally, I borrow audio books from the city library as CDs and play them on my boom box.

I would like to be able to hear them on a cheap MP3 player of some type while I'm walking, but I'm told I need an iPod with a special ap. Can anyone explain further? What equipment and software do I need? Is there a less expensive alternative (besides a pocket CD player!)

Any help is appreciated.

[heartfocus]

A smart phone (cell phone) is one way you can listen to MP3s. An IPod (MP3 player) is cheaper than a good cell phone, though. They even have used ones on Craigslist because people don't use IPods anymore now that they have their phone!
A pocket CD player is too big and bulky to walk with. Yeah I know, tech can drive you crazy.

[Meemur]

Mods: I also started another thread in the Consumer Electronics forum, so this one can be locked.

Thanks, Heartfocus!

After far too much research, I learned that my SanDisk Sansa Clip+ will play audio books from the library, but the instructions I'm finding (and others have graciously found for me) aren't working with the player, so I'm trying to resolve that issue at this point.

If I can make this work, it would be great! This little MP3 player is much nicer than hauling about a CD machine in my pocket.

[rigby06]

There are application out there that you can convert WAV files to MPS format. I have used several ones over the years, I used it to convert my CD collection to MP3 format. It is a rather lengthy process, you have to put in a CD, make a directory on your computer’s hard drive, select the tracks that want saved and converted to your hard drive, and then select the convert process. If you are just doing a single CD and don’t care about the names than Track 01 – 0? Will be just fine. If you want to name each saved track the name of the song title, then you must take an additional steps and go to the folder where you saved the tracks in the first place, and then you must highlight each file, by performing a single click on it, then press the F2 key on your keyboard, that will let you name the track anything you want. This naming process must be performed for each song you want to save and name.

Over the course of several years I have done this for over 500 MP3 songs. But once you have them in MP3 format, then you can copy/move those files to any storage location that can support the MP3 files and play the files accordingly. I hope this help you.

[swagger]

Originally Posted by rigby06

There are application out there that you can convert WAV files to MPS format. I have used several ones over the years, I used it to convert my CD collection to MP3 format. It is a rather lengthy process, you have to put in a CD, make a directory on your computer’s hard drive, select the tracks that want saved and converted to your hard drive, and then select the convert process. If you are just doing a single CD and don’t care about the names than Track 01 – 0? Will be just fine. If you want to name each saved track the name of the song title, then you must take an additional steps and go to the folder where you saved the tracks in the first place, and then you must highlight each file, by performing a single click on it, then press the F2 key on your keyboard, that will let you name the track anything you want. This naming process must be performed for each song you want to save and name.

Wow. Your way is awfully hard.

Here's my way:

1. Insert CD into computer.
2. Start dBpoweramp CD ripper software.
3. Click the "Rip" button.

In usually less than a minute, the CD is identified, meta-data (album/artist/track info) is downloaded, a directory is created for the album under the artist directory and the tracks are all ripped to that directory, using whatever naming convention I previously defined in the software.

[rigby06]

The programs I had ben using were older, they were not capable of coping the Meta-Data, so I had to do it the long way.