How to Play Audible on Garmin Watch

By Li ZhangUpdated on August 30, 2022

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Garmin Watch is a smartwatch like Apple Watch or Huawei Watch, which has become more and more popular for its unique GPS feature. Garmin Watch with a collection of health detection functions, for instance, monitor your heart rate, track any outdoor activity, and track your sleep routine. Garmin Watch get a lot of praise, especially among fitness people. Audible is the most popular audible books streaming platform, allows people to listen to various sorts of Audible books. A lot of people like to listen to Audible books during commuting or when they are doing exercise. How to play Audible on Garmin Watch? In the follow passages we will show you two solutions in detail to play Audible on Garmin Watch.

Why You Can’t Play Audible on Garmin Watch Directly?

It doesn’t like normal audio file, Audible Audiobook is AA/AAX format, and it can only be played through Audible app, iTunes. Since the DRM (Digital Rights Management) designation from the Audible books file, anyone can’t play the file without iTunes/Audible authorized. That will prevent someone accessing Audible books for outside impersonal usage. In this situation, you can’t play Audible on Garmin Watch directly. Are there no way to listen to Audible on Garmin Watch directly? Absolutely No. Garmin Watch are compatible with several file formats: .mp3, .m4a, .m4b, .aac, .adts, .wav, .m3u, .m3u8, .wpl, .zpl, .pls. To play Audible on Garmin Watch as local files, you should remove DRM from Audible books and convert Audible to the compatible format first, such as MP3, M4A.

CONTENTS

Part 1. Play Audible Books on Garmin Watch via Audible Manager

The first way we share with you to play Audible on Garmin Watch is using Audible Manager.

Step 1. Download and install the Audible Manager app from the official website of Audible on your computer.

Step 2. Connect your Garmin Watch to the computer via a USB cable.

Step 3. Launch the Audible Manager app. Click “Devices”then “Add New Device”, it will pop up a window showing a list of ready devices. Select Garmin Watch device and click “OK”.

Step 4. Click the “Activate” button on your Garmin Watch. It will pop up a window for logging in with your Audible account.

Step 5. Select your Audible books and then click the “Add to Device” button to transfer. After that, the selected Audible books will be stored on your Garmin Watch device. Now you can listen to Audible books on Garmin Watch smoothly.

Though you could play Audible books on Garmin Watch via Audible Manager, it only works for Audible Premium users. In addition, since Audible books are AA/AAX format, it is not able to be played on some devices without iTunes/Audible authorized. In this way, if you are a Audible Free user and want to listen to Audible books on Garmin Watch without iTunes/Audible authorized, you should try the second way. Here a reliable Audible Converter tool is required.

Part 2. Convert Audible Books to MP3 for Playing on Garmin Watch

UkeySoft Audible Converter is the best Audible Converter tool you need. It is a professional Audible DRM Removal tool, as well as a Audible Converter tool that allows you remove DRM from Audible books, at the same time convert Audible AA/AAX Audible books to MP3, M4A, M4B, FLAC, AC3, AAC, OGG, AIFF, WAV with lossless sound quality, output audio files with original original chapters and ID3 tags kept. After batch converting Audible books to MP3 with 700X faster speed, all metadata info from original Audible files will be preserved.

Additionally, UkeySoft software supports to split the Audible books into multiple parts by time or chapters, it also allows you edit the tags, metadata and chapter before conversion. As a result, you could play Audible books on Garmin Watch if you are a Audible Free user, listen to Audible books on Garmin Watch without iTunes/Audible authorized, play Audible books offline on any devices/players freely.

What Can UkeySoft Audible Converter Do

• Remove DRM from Audible books
• Convert Audible AA/AAX Audible books to MP3 and more formats
• Convert Audible books with lossless sound quality
• Output audio files with original original chapters and ID3 tags kept
• Split the Audible books into multiple parts by time or chapters
• Play Audible books on Garmin Watch if you are a Audible Free user
• Listen to Audible books on Garmin Watch without authorized
• Play Audible books on any devices/players offline

How to Play Convert Audible Books to MP3

Step 1. Run UkeySoft Software and Add Audible Books
Above all, please run UkeySoft Audible Converter on PC/Mac computer. Open the Audible books files folder on computer, select any Audible books to the conversion window by drag and drop.

Step 2. Select Output Format
Click "Options" button, then click “Advanced”, in the pop up window you should select the output format, M4A is the default output format, here are other options : MP3, M4B, FLAC, AC3, AAC, OGG, AIFF, WAV. For playing Audible books on Garmin Watch, you could select MP3 as output format, since it is compatible with almost all devices.

Step 3. Convert Audible Books to MP3
When the output format is set, click the “Convert” button on the top in the main interface to begin to convert Audible books to MP3.

Step 4. Preview the Output Audible Books
After the Audible books conversion ends, click “History” to check the output MP3 files. Click the blue folder icon to open the output folder for each audio file, now you could offline listening to Audible books without iTunes/Audible authorization.

Step 5. Move MP3 Audible Books to Garmin Watch
Plug an SD card into the SD card reader and then insert the SD card reader into your computer. Open the output Audible books in your computer folder, move Audible books to SD card. Then insert SD card into your Garmin Watch. Now you can listen to Audible books on Garmin Watch with SD card.

Final Words

Now you have got two solutions for reference to play Audible books on Garmin Watch. If you are a Audible Premium user you could select the way 1 to play Audible books on Garmin Watch via Audible Manager. If you are a Audible Free user, you should better to select the later one to play Audible books on Garmin Watch via SD card. After converting Audible books to MP3 with help of UkeySoft Audible Converter, you are allowed to play Audible books on Garmin Watch without iTunes/Audible authorized, even play Audible books offline on any devices/players freely.

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.

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