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> Hello Chris, > > Thank you for your email. The application you use to sync the Audible > content, should manage the authorization of the device. On the Mac, when you > sync your iPod, iPhone or iPad, iTunes handles the authorization of that > device so that you can play your books from it. We are not aware of any other > software for the Mac that allows syncing of Audible content. You may want to > contact Audible directly for additional information on device authorization. > > http://audible.custhelp.com/ > > Apple Accessibility > > > On Jan 20, 2011, at 5:35 PM, Chris Snyder wrote: > > Dear Apple Accessibility Team, > First, thanks as always for the great work you do in making the Mac the best > user experience for blind folks like me, same goes for the ios world. I have > a specialized book player called a Victor Reader Stream made by Humanware. > This specifically allows books from the National Library Service for the > blind and physically handicapped to be played by authorized blind and > dyslexic users. The Stream, along with other players like the Book Port Plus > from the American Printing House for the Blind and the Booksense from > GW-Micro also allow us to play Audible books. To do this, we need an audible > user key. On the PC side, the user key is obtained through the download > manager from Audible where it is then put on the SD memory card for the > player. The book is then copied to the card, and when playback begins, the > book checks to insure that the user key is present on the card before it > begins to play. On the Mac side, there is no Audible download manager except > for iTunes. Is there a way for us to obtain that user key file, which is > called audibleactivation.sys, for our players? I would assume that other more > conventional players such as the Creative Zen and Zune and such would also > need a key file like that to play Audible content. How do sighted Mac users > do this? > Thanks for any help you can offer. > > Friendly, > Chris > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en.
