I bought a Sansa Clip+ MP3 player so my wife can play audiobooks from audible.co.uk. I have activated the Sansa Clip with AudioManager, and downloaded an audiobook. From the PC I can see the book on the Sansa. But the audiobook is not visible or accessible anywhere on the Sansa Menu system - which just has Music, Radio, Voice and Settings. How do I make the book visible and play it?

ThaMp3Doctor

• 8597 Answers
• Posted on Jun 13, 2008

SOURCE: can not play audible book

Go into the Music submenu, and then keep pressing the downward part of the wheel until the "Audiobooks" option comes up. If you don't have any audiobooks loaded, then it MIGHT be greyed out (then again, I have no audiobooks on my player and I still have the option). The manual has the correct instructions, it just doesn't include pictures.

SOURCE: Sansa dioesn't recognize audiobooks

Maybe the new firmware will fix this.

"OGG placed in Audiobook or podcast folder shows up in Music directory." (see below)
(http://www.anythingbutipod.com/forum/showthread.php?t=30954)
01.01.30

Enhancements:

• FLAC decoder support
• Allow Podcasts to skip episodes using FF / REW
• New startup and shutoff images
• Improved the time to rebuild the metadata
• Improved M3U playlist support
• Enhancements for sorting Podcast contents which do not have their track number ID3 tag information
• Separate missing license error message for Audible and generic Audiobooks. Message changed to instruct the customer in how to resolve the problem

• OGG placed in Audiobook or podcast folder shows up in Music directory
• Delete song from a long playlist causes the device to hang
• Selecting “Back to Music List” while playing FM/Voice recordings will display double “Play All” on screen & will cause device to hang upon selecting “Play All”
• Certain tag information for mp3 files will cause the device to hang or freeze
• Made OGG file Tags not case sensitive
• Noise problem on voice recording
• Device in MTP mode will jump back to AutoSelect mode after UI format
• Device behaves erratically when file extension got changed (i.e. .txt to .mp3, .jpg to .wma)
• All Audiobooks should show 1/1 if Chapter Mode is OFF
• Certain Rhapsody tracks show clicking noises
• Deactivation message “Synchronize to listen to your Audiobooks” for Audible is uninformative and irrelevant

ThaMp3Doctor

• 8597 Answers
• Posted on Jan 01, 2009

SOURCE: audiobooks

It doesn't work with either Mac or iTunes - sorry.
Here's the user manual that lists the system requirements:
http://www.sandisk.com/sansa/assets/English/products/Clip/Clip_userguide_en.pdf

-Tha Mp3 Doctor

ThaMp3Doctor

• 8597 Answers
• Posted on Jan 01, 2009

SOURCE: Philips SA304X and audiobooks

It does not support Audible. I have funny insider information on this - Philips originally planned to make it Audible compatible, and even added an Audible folder. In the end, they didn't seal the deal and sent out players that were not compatible with audible, but have an Audible folder in them. LOL.

A workaround is to download audiobook files in mp3-only format. You won't be able to use them like an audiobook, but they will be available for lsiten.

-Tha Mp3 Doctor

SOURCE: Loading audio books onto sansa fuse clip 2gb mp3 player

You need to tag the .mp3 so it has a genre of "Audiobook". Google "mp3 tagger" and you'll find utils to do this for you.