Audible® (www.audible.com®) is a service that of audio content download and playback on personal computers, CD, or AudibleReady® computer-based mobile devices.
You can now enjoy daily audio subscriptions of national newspapers, weekly business and science magazines, and more than 6,000 audiobooks available at Audible.com®.
The AudiblePlayer for Pocket PC lets you listen to pre-recorded audio books, time-shifted radio programs, audio magazines and newspapers as well as a whole variety of other spoken word audio programs on your PAC Mate Pocket PC.
Ensure that ActiveSync is installed on your desktop computer, and that the PAC Mate is connected to your computer with either a standard or guest partnership. On your PC, go to www.audible.com and select the Audible Manager link to download the AudiblePlayer software for Pocket PC.
To view the list of commands available for AudiblePlayer, please go to Appendix A: PAC Mate Commands
AudiblePlayer will automatically play the programs on your Pocket PC in alphabetical order. You may select other programs in one of two ways.
If you would like to select from a list of all available audio programs on your Pocket PC, simply open the File menu and press ENTER on Select Audio Program. The audio program currently selected is highlighted. You can use the arrow keys to make your selection and then press CTRL+P to start the selection. The playback position of the last audio program is automatically saved for future use.
It is easy to navigate within an audio program. There are several commands for fast Forward and Rewind. You can also skip by sections using CTRL+SHIFT+F or CTRL+SHIFT+R for the previous section.
For more precise navigation, you may use the any of the commands available for AudiblePlayer.
Once you have set a bookmark and brought up the bookmark list, you then use the up an down arrow keys to select the bookmark you want and then follow with CTRL+P to begin playback from that point.
Note: The bookmark functions have been removed by Audible from Version 4.0 of AudiblePlayer.
For long audio programs, you can place audio on a storage card using AudibleManager. The AudiblePlayer will present a consolidated list of your Audio programs, whether it is stored on Main Memory or the Storage Card.
The online help that comes with AudiblePlayer is very comprehensive and easily explains all features of this program. To open AudiblePlayer Help, open the program, press Windows Key and select Help from the Start Menu.