HOW TO: Download and Play your WMA Audio Books

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1 HOW TO: Download and Play your WMA Audio Books First you will need to search for a book you would like to download. Once you have found a title, click the green download button to see your options. You will get a pop up which allows you to download the title immediately, or Save It For Later.

2 Using the Save This for Later option is a great way for you to keep track of books of interest that you may want to download in the future. Only have 1 credit left this month but found 3 books you want to download? Use the Save This for Later option to easily find these titles again when your new credits are issued. You can review and download titles from your saved list under My Books > Saved For Later. When you are ready to download a title you ve set aside, simply go to your Saved For Later list, and click on the green download button next to the book you want. However, if when searching for a title you find one you would like to download now, simply click on the green Download Now button in the pop up. In the next window, click the green Use Download Credit button.

3 Once you click on the green Download button, you will be prompted to confirm that you wish to use a Download Credit towards this title. Choose Yes, and view my library to immediately continue to the next step of downloading your title. Or, choose Yes to confirm the use of a credit but continue browsing books. A credit will be assigned to the title, and the title will appear in your Download Library. You can access this list at any time through My Books. In this case, we re going to choose Yes, and view my library to proceed immediately with our download. We get redirected to our Download Library, and our title is now ready for us to download.

4 Click the green Download button next to your book to begin the download process. A pop up window will appear asking if you want to open or save the file. Save the file to your PC by clicking on the save button. Once the download is complete, select the open option to open the file.

5 If you would like to open the file without downloading to your PC, please select the open option. By selecting this option you re allowing windows to automatically open the file using Windows Media Player The file will now begin to extract to Windows Media Player. This step is automatic, once you select the open option, your PC will automatically start extracting the audio tracks into Windows Media Player. Once all the tracks have been extracted into Windows Media Player, you may be confronted with a warning message. Click Yes as the skin file and scripts are not harmful to your PC.

6 The Final Step is acquiring the Digital Rights to play the file. All of our.wma audio books are protected by a security license to prevent the unauthorized copying and distribution of the file. As such, you will need to acquire the license to play the file. The license acquisition process is automatic the first time you try to open the file. IMPORTANT If this is your first time playing protected content you will have to install ActiveX Add-on before you go to the next step. Click Here to see our ActiveX installation instructions. Once the file is opened, you will be presented with the Media Usage Rights Acquisition window. Enter in the address and password you use to login to your Simply Audiobooks account and then click the Submit button.

7 This step can take a few minutes to finish. Please do not interrupt this process as the computer is communicating with the Simply Audiobooks website. If you close the window before the Play button becomes active, you run the risk of corrupting the license. When the license acquisition is complete, you will see a LICENSE DELIVERED notice, and the Play button will become active. Click Play to start playing the audio book.

8 To come back and play the audio book again, simply find the book in your playlist, select the track you wish to start with and press the play button. Enjoy your audio books!