Okay, since Audible is just about the worst company on the planet at letting people know that they’ve done something cool, I thought I’d point this out. I downloaded the latest version of Audible Player for PalmOS 5 recently and found a few new awesome features. I bet they were put in place for the new Tungsten T5, but they work just as well on the Zodiac.
First, Audible finally supports full screen mode. In fact, you can’t bring up the Graffiti area even if you want to. On extended screen devices, the extra space is now used to display the cover art of the book and a book jacket summary. You also see the title, author, narrator, format, size and where the book is stored. Yay!
Audible now supports more than one storage card. Again, this is probably for the T5, supporting both the internal flash drive and the SD card. But it also works great with the dual SD slots on my Zod.
Lastly, it seems they’ve changed their code for turning off the screen while listening. The menu option to do this manually is gone, and the screen turns off automatically after about five minutes, even on my Zodiac (which used to say “this feature is not supported on your device” when I tried the manual option). Even better, just like the Zod’s MP3 player and Pocket Tunes, the Zod’s power button LED softly pulses on and off while the screen if off to give you a visual indicator that the device it still doing something.
If you have an extended screen PalmOS device, especially if you have a Zodiac, go download the latest version of Audible Player.
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