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Audible.com now allows for single file download of audio books which can be sync'd to iPod. However the iPod cannot plan content longer than 24 hours in length. You will ned to download the segmented audio if the program is longer than 1440 minutes long.
iPod nano, Other OS, 6th Gen Nano Version 1.2
Where does this "1440 minutes" number come from? Is there a document that states such a number? If so, can you link to it?
How large is that single audio file? The actual limit may be a size limit for a single file, in the disk format used by the iPod (or some other limit that is based on file size). So, it may not be the length of the audio file, but a technical limit.
1440 minutes = 24 hours. You can see that limit by expirimentation. The file size does not seem to be a factor. Thes files are a couple hundred MB. Take an Audiobook that is 30-40 hours long, play at time index 1439. It will play up to 1439:59 and jump to beginning of the next track.
Since you've already done a thorough experiment, and the cutoff is so precisely at 24 nours, it is probably by design. You'll have to use the "segmented" version of the audiobook.
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Hi, just found this after Googling the same problem. I hope this will help other Audible.com users who like long biographies and the like, but can't play them to the end on their iPods.
My iPod Nano is a gen 7, and either starts stuttering like a stuck LP record or jumps back to page one of the audiobook after flawlessly playing a good part of a long book. I suppose it must be about 24 hours into it, as it didn't falter on a 23+ hour book. My laptop and my Kindle would play the books all the way to the end, so it wasn't a problem with the files themselves. The local Apple store tried reinstalling the iPod's firmware, to no avail, so they gave me a new iPod. I had the same problem with the new device.
Today I had a talk with a supervisor in the Apple support group who was sympathetic and said that she would refer the issue to their engineeriing staff and get back to me. In the meantime, I talked with Audible.com, and the support guy there solved the problem for me. All you have to do is sign in to your Audible account, go to your Library, and find the "Audio Quality" button at the upper right corner. Mine was on "Enhanced", and he had me switch it to "Format 4". That resulted in all the audiobooks in the library to be displayed as both a single file and as multiple files (Part 1, 2, 3, etc.). I was able to download the final parts and successfully listened to them on my iPod.
Nonetheless, this does seem like an issue that Apple would want to address with a software enhancement.
Thank you so much for this solution! I have been bothered by this issue for ages and have used my phone to play files >24hrs. So simple to fix when you know how 😁 Many thanks
I've run across the same problem. But, you do not have to switch formats. If you are using the enhanced format, locate the title in your audible library and then click the triangle in front of the title. That will display the segmented audio files as well as the single file. When I posed the time limit to audible they suggested no more than 23 hours and the ipod would work fine.
Thank you so much! This worked great and you saved me a ton of aggravation.
6th Gen Nano won't play content longer than 1440 minutes
