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Tue, 07/29/2008 - 2:05pm

I have finally come to a point where I want to listen to audio book through my Garmin 350.

I searched and searched and have not found what I was looking for in POI Factory files. So I am asking for help.

I am wantings to listen to audio books (in mp3 format) that I have downloaded and put on my SD card under the folder Garmin->Audio Books.

But I cannot find a way to direct the Garmin Audio book reader to that directory.

Can someone explain how to do this?

Thanks

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Tue, 07/29/2008 - 2:08pm

May I point you to this thread..

xnman wrote:

I have finally come to a point where I want to listen to audio book through my Garmin 350.

I searched and searched and have not found what I was looking for in POI Factory files. So I am asking for help.

I am wantings to listen to audio books (in mp3 format) that I have downloaded and put on my SD card under the folder Garmin->Audio Books.

But I cannot find a way to direct the Garmin Audio book reader to that directory.

Can someone explain how to do this?

Thanks

arrow http://www.poi-factory.com/node/15911

It would appear the only way to do it is to go to:
garmin.audible.com and subscribe.... sad

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Tue, 07/29/2008 - 5:52pm

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Yeah, MP3 files will only show up under the MP3 player. The only way to get them under the Audio Book player is to purchase them from Audible. It's a proprietary format.

Tue, 07/29/2008 - 6:42pm

A work around?

Is there no work around to this problem?

A lot of books are in mpx format.

Something I am setting up and doing now with my Nuvi 350, is to have 2 SD cards. On both of them I will have the folder for Garmin.
Under that folder I will have folders for Poi and Mp3.

On the one SD Card I will have my pois under Poi and have my music under Mp3.

On the other I will have my pois and under the Mp3 I will have my audio books in mp3 format.

Then when I want to listen to a book, I will power down my Nuvi, load the SD card for books, power up and go.

I guess I will have to re-set my route... wherever I am in it...

But it looks like that is the only way to play the books in the mpx format ... without mixing them up with my tunes, which I don't really want to do.

Any thoughts?