Nokia Audiobooks
NOTE: THIS PROJECT HAS& BEEN DISCONTINUED AND ARCHIVED ON 29 SEPTEMBER 2009
Read the announcement.
Overview
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.
Note: By installing, copying, or otherwise using this software, you agree to be bound by the terms of its license.
Compatibility and system requirements
Nokia Audio Book Player
Should work with all Nokia devices based on S60 3rd Edition (see device list). Tested with: Nokia N73, N76, N80, N93, N91, E70, E65, E62, E60, E50, 5500 sport, 3250, N95, N95 8g, N76, E90, 6290, 6110 Navigator, E63, N96, E90, N85
Nokia Audiobook Manager
Windows operating system. Tested on Windows Vista, Windows XP and 2000 (may also work on other versions, does not work on Windows 98)
Changelog of Nokia Audiobooks
- Single SIS installation file for all S60 3rd edition phones
- User can enable digital clock in the player view
- Improved sleep timer to set different sleep intervals
- Book duration display corrected (incorrect time for books longer than 24 hours)
Changelog of Nokia Audiobook Manager
- Library manager" to copy and delete audio book on phone and PC
- Nokia PC SUITE support for connection between PC and the phone (works both in PC SUITE and data transfer modes, also Bluetooth connection support in Nokia PC SUITE mode)
- Option to automatically delete AFTER processing the WAV files ripped from CDs.
- Advance level control in audio book processing (higher speech volume for many recordings)
- Support now special letters like ÅÄÖ
- number of small bug fixes
Free audiobooks from Librivox
For your convenience, we have converted a couple of free public domain books from Librivox librivox.org into compatible format:
Fiction:
- L. Carroll's Alice in Wonderland (ZIP, 18,9 MB)
- R. L. Stevenson's Treasure island (ZIP, 42,2 MB)
- Baroness Emmuska Orczy's The Scarlet Pimpernel (ZIP, 45,2 MB)
Non-fiction:
- Sun Tzu's The Art of War (ZIP, 12 MB)
- S. Freud's Dream Psychology (ZIP, 34 MB
Note: librivox books are read and recorded by volunteers, and the quality may vary.
About AMR-WB codec
Nokia Audiobooks uses standardized Adaptive Multi Rate-WideBand speech encoder (3GPP 26.190 / ITU-T G.722.2 See www.3GPP.org / www.itu.ch) for audio data compression in order to keep memory requirement for a book very small while maintaining excellent speech quality.
Download
Nokia Audiobook player (for listening books in S60 phone)
Download (SIS, 369 KB)
Nokia Audiobook Manager (for converting and transferring books)
Download (MSI, 1068 KB)
Optional MP3 Decoder
LAME MP3 decoder
Installation instructions
For Nokia Audiobook Player client on your phone
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").
3. Start the player and select the book by selecting "Options" from left soft key and then choosing "Select book" from the list.
4. Start listening.
- "Select" (joystick down): start/pause book
- joystick left/right: rewind the book
- joystick up/down keys: increase/decrease volume.
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.
For the Nokia Audiobook Manager tool on your PC
1. Download Installation file to your PC (NokiaAudiobookManagerInstallation.msi).
2. Double click the downloaded file to start the installation (if installation is not started automatically, set installation file focused and select "Open with" from mouse right key menu. Then select "Windows Installer" as an program to open the file)
3. Follow the installation instructions.
4. Start Nokia Audiobook Manager using the icon on the desktop or in the "Start->Programs" menu.
5. In case you want to convert audio books from MP3 files, you will also need an MP3 decoder, which can be downloaded e.g. from: here. (NOTE: "lame.exe" must be located in the same directory with the NokiaAudiobookManager.exe)
