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Telltale Weekly Audiobooks Now Offered as AAC

Posted by Hemos on from the for-the-purist-in-you dept.

Alex writes "My audiobook project Telltale Weekly now offers DRM-free AAC downloads of its entire catalog of audiobooks in addition to already-supported Ogg Vorbis and MP3. Probably one of the most-requested features since we started. We also released our first booklength work last month, meaning that an unabridged reading of War of the Worlds will be free online in 5 years or sooner."

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  1. Resume Play from Last Location by nuxx · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Do these audiobooks have the same 'feature' as iTunes / Audible.com audio books, whereas if you stop playing them and go to listen to something else, they start up where you left off?

    If so, can I ask how you make files do that? I'd love to set a number of DJ mixes / live sets to do this, but I haven't had much luck in figuring out how.

    Thanks!

  2. Re:Serious question by System.out.println() · · Score: 2, Interesting

    If I had to guess, they probably wanted AAC's bookmarking ability.

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  3. Re:Serious question by colanut · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Good quality at a lower bit rate. As a result, more content fits in the same space.

    But the quality is subjective. 96k MP3 sound fine on my little player while walking and biking. I can fit more in the small usb key than if they were 128s or 160s. If the new format had the same quality at an even smaller bit rate, even better.