How to download audible files to ipod classic

Part 1. Why Audible Not Compatible with iPod

As for the iPod, we should note that it is a line of portable media players, including iPod Classic, Mini, Nano, Shuffle as well as Touch. Apart from being external data storage devices, the iPod also can be considered as one of the most popular digital music players, which can play a wide variety of audio files, like podcasts, music and audiobooks.

However, why sometimes users can't sync Audible audiobook to iPod successfully? It is because different iPod models and generations are compatible with different Audible book formats. As a result, before transferring audiobooks from Audible to iPod, we need to have a full knowledge of the right format for each of iPod model and generation.

For iPod Touch: Users can directly download Audible audio files to iPod Touch, because it can play all kinds of Audible book formats, also including AA and AAX files on iPod Touch, even without using iTunes.

For iPod Shuffle and Nano: Generally speaking, the Shuffle can handle Audible format 2 and 3 if file size allows, while Audible format 2, 3 and 4 can work well on the Nano. Please make sure that you have downloaded the right format from Audible for the specific iPod device. Besides, you need to download and split Audible audiobooks that are longer than 20+ hours into small segments before adding them to iPod Nano and Shuffle.