Hi Claudia,
Yes, any iDevice can play MP3 files just fine. As far as whether you have to go through iTunes to get them onto the device the answer for the most part is Yes. However, if you want to listen to audio books you could buy Voice Dream Reader and then, as long as you also are set up with Dropbox on both your computer and your iPod Touch, you can compress/zip an audio book folder which contains MP3 files, then copy said folder into a Dropbox folder (you could call it Voice Dream" or "iPod Audio Books" or whatever you want. Now once the book has uploaded and keep in mind that if you have a large book which is a few hundred Mb, this could take a while, you can now open Voice Dream and add a book, select that you want to add it from Dropbox and browse to the folder where you have it saved. Double tap on it and Voice Dream will download the book into the app (it can be used in offline mode) and it will then unzip the files and you can listen to the audio book. Having said all that, my preferred method is to use the free Chapter and Vers software from Loden Software which lets me convert an audio book with multiple MP3 files into a single file audio book of the iTunes format (with extension M4B). At the end of the conversion Chapter and Vers asks if you want to import the book into iTunes, you can say Yes and it will show up in your Books library. >From here all you have to do is connect your phone and either choose to sync all books or to sync selected books, then check the book or books you want and press Apply. Regards, Sieghard From: viphone@googlegroups.com [mailto:viphone@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Claudia Sent: Thursday, February 13, 2014 3:30 AM To: viphone@googlegroups.com Subject: MP3 Files Hi Again, I also have a great deal of MP3 files on an external drive; this includes many audio books that I have downloaded or purchased, over the years, from other sources. Am I able to play these files, on my Ipod Touch, and if so, how do I do this? Do I have to put them all through Itunes, before I can listen to them? Thanks. Claudia -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the "VIPhone" Google Group. Post a new message to VIPhone by emailing viphone@googlegroups.com <mailto:viphone@googlegroups.com> . Search and view the VIPhone archives by visiting http://www.mail-archive.com/viphone@googlegroups.com/. Reach the VIPhone owner and moderators by emailing viphone+ow...@googlegroups.com <mailto:viphone+ow...@googlegroups.com> . Unsubscribe and leave VIPhone by emailing viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com <mailto:viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com> . More VIPhone group options can be found by visiting http://groups.google.com/group/viphone?hl=en. --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "VIPhone" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com <mailto:viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com> . For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the "VIPhone" Google Group. Post a new message to VIPhone by emailing viphone@googlegroups.com. Search and view the VIPhone archives by visiting http://www.mail-archive.com/viphone@googlegroups.com/. Reach the VIPhone owner and moderators by emailing viphone+ow...@googlegroups.com. Unsubscribe and leave VIPhone by emailing viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. More VIPhone group options can be found by visiting http://groups.google.com/group/viphone?hl=en. --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "VIPhone" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
