Anybody out there have a subscription to Audible.com?

[ambitious_wench]

Any of you out there have a subscription to Audible.com, or have bought audio files from them? I'm curious; are the files self-destructing, in that you have to keep buying them after a set amount of time?

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Audible.com

[(Anonymous)]

You have them forever. I have files that I bought in `98 that I still listen to. And you don't even have to keep copies of the files if you don't want to take up the hard drive space. They stay in your online library and you can go back and download them again any time you want.

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[ambitious-wench.livejournal.com]

Thank you, Mystery commentor.

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[mongo.livejournal.com]

I'm not the mystery commentor, but I will happily verify what was said. The files are compatible with i-Tunes, stay in your library (I RE-downloaded files I initially bought years ago) and they generally have a variety of formats/quality depending on your device and how much space you want to take up on your HD.

And the selection of titles is pretty damn good. Although I would recommend avoiding the abridged versions- why should you give up material simply because you want to listen to it as opposed to read it?

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[ambitious-wench.livejournal.com]

can you re-download in different formats? Say I want an MP3 and something I can play on my car cd player?

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[mongo.livejournal.com]

Yes.

But if you might not have to depending on the software you use. If I'm not mistaken, you can burn the file to CD from iTunes either as an audio CD (and probably span several disks) or an MP3 CD which some car stereos can play.