
Welcome to the world of audiobooks! An audio book is a recording of a book being read aloud. There are tens of thousands of audiobooks available in the world, in various languages, covering topics from education to entertainment.
Nokia Audiobooks is a beta concept that enables you to enjoy audiobooks while on the go. It uses a highly efficient audio compression technology optimized for voice (AMR-WB, 3GPP 26.190 / ITU-T G.722.2 ). The concept consists of a player application for S60 (Nokia Audiobook Player), and an audio converter tool for PC (Nokia Audiobook Manager). Whereas traditional music player applications are optimized for music, Nokia Audiobook Player is optimized for audiobooks, enabling you to browse chapters, set bookmarks, and automatically continue from where you stopped listening last time.
A typical 400 page novel translates into 10-20 hour long audio book, which would traditionally take more than dozen CDs or hundreds of megabytes of low-quality MP3 files. With Nokia Audiobooks, you get even 10 times more content on your phone with similar voice quality – compared to content that has been compressed with MP3 at 128 kbps. Consequently, you can easily store multiple audiobooks on your memory card – and still have plenty of capacity left for the other things (like pictures and videos) you find important.
Installation instructions:
1. Download and install NokiaAudiobookPlayer_1_xx into your phone.
2. Make sure you have at least one audio book on your memory card. You can copy an audio book onto your phone using Nokia Audiobook Manager.
- However, if you choose to copy converted books manually onto a memory card, they must be located in the “/audiobooks” subdirectory under the root directory of the phone memory card (e.g. “e:/audiobooks””).
- The entire content of the book (audio files, index file and optional cover picture) must be located in the same subfolder of /audiobooks. The subfolder name may indicate the name of the book (e.g. “e:/audiobooks/TheBestSeller”).
- Start the player and select the book by selecting “Options” from left soft key and then choosing “Select book” from the list.
Note: If you exit the client, it will automatically save a bookmark and you can continue to listen from the same position when you start the client again. The bookmarks are book dependent, so you can listen to several books at a time.