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March 30, 2007

AppleTV and Audiobooks

Filed under: Hardware Reviews — George Starcher @ 3:08 am

by: George Starcher, Associate Editor

I just got back from Europe. While I was there I saw the AppleTV in the Regent Street Apple Store in London. I knew I had to have one as soon as I got back home. Sure enough I picked up one yesterday (the day after I got back). It was as easy to setup as everyone says. But here is one thing I have run into. I have the Harry Potter audiobooks I purchased through iTunes. But I also have an Audible subscription. None of my Audible audiobooks show up on the AppleTV. I guess even though audiobooks purchased through iTunes come from Audible, ones directly from Audible are considered third party unsupported files. This does make sense once I thought about it since they are in Audible’s format if you get them straight from Audible and protected AACs if you get them from iTunes.

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2 Responses to “AppleTV and Audiobooks”

  1. Ian Says:
    April 1st, 2007 at 6:46 pm

    Hi,
    I’ve downloaded some .mp3 audiobooks from podiobooks.com but didn’t like them showing up in with my music. So I converted them to aac and made them into audiobooks (.m4b) by using one of the options in iTunify (www.satsumac.com/iTunify.php). They then automatically are listed under the Audiobook library in iTunes. I don’t have a AppleTV to try it out on but it would make sence if it does work.
    Hope it works for you. Ian

  2. George Starcher Says:
    April 1st, 2007 at 11:34 pm

    That unfortunately works only on non DRM protected files. Audible.com uses a protected special format.

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