Wednesday, November 7, 2007

e-audiobooks

So I went to Net-library to download an e-audio book to put on my MP3 player. I decided to do a short one that was supposed to take 10 minutes to download onto my flashdrive. Of course it took longer--the last 23 seconds took 3 minutes! But it eventually got saved.

Later...I copied the file from the flashdrive to a folder on my computer by clicking and dragging. So far so good. WMP automatically opened saying that I need to obtain the license. Got it, no problem!

But then I wanted to syncronize it to my MP3 player. I had to get it onto the sync list. I clicked all over until something worked. Then I hit the start sync button and an error message popped up, saying the file isn't in the correct format. Grr. It is. That's why it took forever to download in the first place. Then I tried it again. And again. Then I restarted the computer. And tried it again. This time when I tried syncing it worked!

I don't know how it worked but I'll take it. I'm not sure how I'll explain that to confused patrons...