ondreeuh Posted July 30, 2014 Share Posted July 30, 2014 I kept hearing here how awesome they were for audiobooks, but I have had tons of trouble. First, getting my Audible files on there - well, some were downloaded as format 1 (what? These are ones I DL'd within the past week and format 1 isn't even an option) so I had to re-download as format 4. And since they had been downloaded previously, I had to re-download several in the split format. Fine. Pain in the butt but I got them all added to my library in Audible Manager. Next, the audiobooks show up on the Sansa Clip+ with part 2 before part 1 - and you have to wait for the title to scroll to see which part you're on. Annoying, but not a deal breaker. Then, I discovered that when I rip CDs, iTunes is converting them to mp4, so I have to convert to mp3 before I can do anything with them. Urgh. I think I can change that for the future, but I still have to deal with my existing library of audiobooks. Finally, the Clip+ is sorting the chapters in whatever order it wants. I am trying to figure out how to change id3 tags but I'm on my second program and they both require a lot of painstaking individual renaming and saving. I spent hours yesterday using one program to fix the id3 tags, and it didn't even make a difference when I loaded them on the Sansa (which takes a couple of hours since I am putting 20+ gigs of audiobooks on there). Tell me again why this thing is so great? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ondreeuh Posted July 30, 2014 Author Share Posted July 30, 2014 I don't use the Sansa software either (I believe it's just a Rhapsody trial). For my non-Audible audiobooks, I am just dragging from my computer into the folder on the Sansa device. No software involved. I think the issue is that the Sansa Clip+ isn't acknowledging the CD numbers. So it plays track 01 of each disc, then track 02. I have checked my id3 tags and they show the different album numbers, but Sansa ignores it I guess. I am going through the tedious process of changing the track numbers, which is super annoying on something like Hans Brinker that has over 120 tracks. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hellen Posted July 31, 2014 Share Posted July 31, 2014 I don't know the answer but I wish I did. I have trouble with audiobooks on the Sansa Clip as well. I own two and one performs perfectly and the other does not. It jumps around. It won't resume. I'm stumped. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stripe Posted July 31, 2014 Share Posted July 31, 2014 I had issues with track numbers and although I haven't been using them for a while, I remember doing two things...one is to look things up by album rather than title of individual track, and also that audiobooks had a separate section until I started messing with tags. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RootAnn Posted July 31, 2014 Share Posted July 31, 2014 Huh. I haven't had any of these issues. I did have trouble one time with it jumping around randomly, but it turns out I had some setting set to "random." All the Audible stuff went right into the Audiobooks folder perfectly. The Overdrive things are a little harder to navigate because they are under Music. Otherwise, no issues. I just use either Audible or Overdrive to put stuff on there. The only trouble I ever have is getting audio files (music, GSWS lessons) on there through Windows Media Player. We don't have any i-devices & only use the Sansa Clip+. We have three of them - two work fine & one's power button broke, so we turn it on via plugging it in to recharge & turn it off by pausing & letting it turn itself off. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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