How to Play Audible Books on Sony Walkman

By Li ZhangUpdated on December 16, 2022

• Select your language:
• English

  Arabic Chinese (Simplified) Chinese (Traditional) Croatian Czech Danish Dutch English Estonian Finnish French German Greek Hebrew Hindi Hungarian Indonesian Italian Japanese Kazakh Korean Malay Norwegian Polish Portuguese Romanian Russian Slovenian Spanish Swedish Thai Turkish Ukrainian Vietnamese

Sony Walkman is a portable device for listening audio designed by Sony Company, it is launched in the late 1970s. There are many different series including the models of Walkman from cassette player to CD, MP3 player and more. It offers good quality audio outputs in order let you listen to music on it with a great experience. Sony Walkman can be used whether you are indoors studying or outdoors exercising. As the world largest library of audible books offering platform, Audible allows you to explore and purchase any audible books you want to listen to. However, just like any other protected audio files, Audible books are delivered in a format that is incompatible with many models of Sony Walkman. Here is a question, is it possible to play Audible books on Sony Walkman? Actually, it is a complicated question. Let us show you the answer in detail in the passages following.

Can You Play Audible Books on Sony Walkman Directly?

Since Audible books are encoded in AA/AAX formats, it is digital rights designed by Audible to make you access and listen to Audible books within iTunes or Audible app. Some of the latest models of Sony Walkman supports the Audible app, like the W/E/F/Z series for Android OS. You can download and install Audible for using on these models directly. But most models of Sony Walkman are not compatible with the Audible app. Unfortunately, this limits you to play the Audible books on the device that you desire even after you purchased them. Some users may ask what if they have a non-compatible device and want to listen to Audible books on it? How to play Audible books on incompatible Sony Walkman? To play Audible books on Sony Walkman without authorizing, you should convert Audible books to MP3, then transfer the local files to Sony device for offline playback.

CONTENTS

Part 1. How to Play Audible Books on Sony Walkman Directly

If you Sony Walkman model is compatible with Audible, you can install Audible from App Store and play Audible books on the device directly.

Step 1. Open the WiFi option on Sony Walkman device.
Step 2. Select Play Store on the Home screen.
Step 3. Type Audible and search for it.
Step 4. Install the Audible app and then you could listen to Audible books on the device directly.

Part 2. Play Audible Books on Incompatible Sony Walkman

To play Audible books on incompatible Sony Walkman, you can get UkeySoft Audible Converter to achieve it. As its name, it is a professional audible converter software developed for converting Audible books from AA/AAX to MP3 or other general audio formats, like M4A, M4B, FLAC, AC3, AAC, OGG, AIFF, WAV. Keep audios with ID3 tags and lossless audio quality at a 700X faster speed. With the advanced conversion technology, you are allowed to batch convert Audible books preserve with all chapter info. As a result, you could get Audible books as local files, transfer and play Audible books on Sony Walkman without authorizing. What's more, you can play Audible books on all devices/players offline, including the device are not compatible with original AA/AAX Audible books, such as, MP3 player, iPod Nano/Shuffle/Classic/Touch, PSP, Zune, etc,.

Functions of UkeySoft Audible Converter

• Convert Audible books from AA/AAX to MP3 or more formats
• Keep audios with ID3 tags and lossless audio quality
• Batch convert Audible books preserve with all chapter info
• Play Audible books on Sony Walkman without authorizing
• Play Audible books on all devices/players offline
• Convert Audible books at 700X faster speed

Convert Audible Books to MP3 for Playing on Incompatible Sony Walkman

First of all, please install and run UkeySoft Audible Converter on PC/Mac computer.

Step 1. Add Audible Books
Open the Audible books files folder on computer, drag and drop the selected Audible books to the conversion list in program. As UkeySoft software features with batch conversion, you are allowed to add a lots of Audiobooks to the conversion list at the same time.

Step 2. Adjust Output Format
Click "Options" button, then click “Advanced”, in the pop up window you should adjust the output format, there are 9 options: M4A ( default output format), MP3, M4B, FLAC, AC3, AAC, OGG, AIFF, WAV. For playing Audible books on Sony Walkman, MP3 is a good option for output format, since it is compatible with almost all audio players.

Step 3. Convert Audible Books to MP3
Click the “Convert” button on the top in the main interface in program to start to convert Audible books to MP3 in batch.

Step 4. Check the Converted Audible Books
When the conversion ends, click “History” , then click blue folder icon to open the output folder for each audio file to check the converted MP3 files.

Step 5. Play Audible Books on Sony Walkman Offline
Now all that items have converted to MP3 files. Connect the Sony Walkman to your computer via a USB cable, manually transfer the Audible books to the device by drag and drop, now you could offline listening to Audible books on Sony Walkman even without iTunes/Audible authorization.

Conclusion

If you searching the ways about how to play Audible books on Sony Walkman, now you have got ways to do it. The first way is to download Audible app and play Audible books on compatible Sony Walkman directly. And the best way is to get the help of UkeySoft Audible Converter to convert Audible books to MP3, then transfer and play the files on Sony Walkman offline. In my opinion, it is strongly recommended to choose the second way to fix your problem. After that, you could play Audible books on any devices not only Sony Walkman without iTunes/Audible authorization, listen to Audible books freely anywhere at anytime. Enjoy!

Li Zhang

Justin Sabrina has over 10 years of content writing experience. She specializes in product reviews, how-to guides, tips and tricks, top lists, etc. on data encryption, multi-media conversion, screen recording and iOS unlocking. At UkeySoft, she performs in-depth research SEO copywriting and collaborates with our R & D team to offer effective software solution, most of her articles on software are helpful and easy to read, helping our reader easily solve problems through using software or apps.

Li Zhang

Li Zhang is a sophisticated editor for UkeySoft in tech blog writing, as well as a SEO and content marketing expert. She has been writing related article about multimedia conversion, streaming music and streaming video since 2018. Also, she's starting to write article about data security, including articles about file lock, USB encryption, DVD encryption, etc. Each helpful tutorial and solution is based on her practical tests, she is aways energetic and trustworthy in this field.

Li Zhang

Chester is an experienced editor for UkeySoft focused on tech article writing, software & hardware produce review and tutorial. He specializes in composing posts about music conversion, video downloading, video conversion, screen recording and other tech knowledge tips. He always understands user needs and pain points and familiar with all kinds of multimedia conversion software and streaming music downloader on the market. So far, he has published 400+ helpful tech articles of software reviews, how-to guides to help reader in need.

Comments

1. No comment yet. Say something...

Prompt: you need to log in before you can comment.
No account yet. Please click here to register.