GCLS Logo

Main Menu

Events Calendar
FAQs
Locations & Hours
My Account Login
Classic Catalog
Adults
Children
Teens
Special Events
Contact Us
Newsletter Aug-Sep
Search Site
SCDOT Public Comment
 
eAccess Signup
Take Our Survey
Catalog FAQs
Step Up to the Plate
I Love My Librarian
EBSCOhost Mobile
How to play an Audiobook in Windows Media Player tutorial Print

If you chose Open from the download screen or saved the file to your hard drive and then double clicked on it to launch it, you may or may not see something similar to this:

How to play an audio book

Should this window appear, simply re-enter the username and password that you created with Netlibrary. This should only appear, at most, the first time you play a new title. After the license downloads, your PC should automatically save it for future use. This step sets the 21 day checkout period that you are allowed to use the book.

Once completed, you will see this:

How to play an audio book

Now click the Play button to start listening to the audiobook.

Notice along the bottom of your Windows Media Player that you have something similar to this:

How to play an audio book

Notice the orange highlighted box around the feature above. This is the slider that controls where you are in the audiobook’s contents.

If you look at the right-bottom corner of the control bar, you will see the total time you have listened to the story. It will look like this:

How to play an audio book

These audiobooks contain no chapter breaks. If you need to get back to where you were, note the time on the control bar when you are ready to stop listening. When you resume the story later, click and hold the slider, and move it to the right until you are at the desired time. When you release it, it should start playing at that point.