Apps Add DRM free audio books to apple watch

[madmaxmedia]

Thanks for that tip about turning off Bluetooth. Transfers were taking forever! I’ll try one now with no Bluetooth and see what difference it makes. Thanks again for the tip about WatchAudio

@madmaxmedia Can you suggest something to turn MP3s into M4b? I noticed above you suggested AudioBookBinder but unfortunately I’m using a PC (as well as an iPhone/iPad) and that’s only for Mac. I’ve tried to search for a good one but I gave up as I couldn’t sort the wheat from the chaff.

No personal experience, sorry. Usually this web site is good for exploring alternatives though-

https://alternativeto.net/software/audiobookbinder/?platform=windows

 

[patthedog]

My one minor complaint with WatchAudio is that when I use forward/skip controls on my headphones, it defaults to next/previous chapter with audiobooks rather than say jump forward/rewind 30 seconds. You can forward/rewind with the onscreen display so that's fine, but occasionally I'll accidentally activate the chapter commands with my earphone controls while I'm running. So it would be nice to be able to customize this behavior.

I actually like this behaviour - I don't use it to skip chapters but to toggle between two audio files in a playlist set to repeat mode. Then when I'm running I can just use my headphones to toggle between music (long DJ mix) and an audiobook (without chapters).

My own minor complaint is that audio files transferred to the Watch via WatchAudio, also stay on the iPhone. Removing them from the phone also removes them from the Watch. A bit wasteful when I have 6GB of audio files already transferred that I will only ever listen to on the Watch.