Thread: Amazon announces new 7" waterproof Oasis with 32GB storage option
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Old 10-20-2017, 11:41 AM   #332
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Device: Oasis 2, Voyage, Paperwhite 2, Kindle Touch, Kindle Keyboard, iPad Pro
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Originally Posted by booklover6 View Post
FYI My 2011 Kindle Touch can download and play Audible books. (Could it always?) Along with TTS and the ability to play mp3 files (which I guess Oasis 2 can't?). I'll be curious to see if the new Oasis can do TTS as easily as the Touch.

However, it does not do whisper-sync. It's straight up Audible, even when I have the companion ebook on the device.

This is a big question for me, too. My Kindle Touch and my Kindle Keyboard allow me to dump MP3 podcasts and audiobooks into the "audible" folder, and then plays them all just fine. It's difficult for me to believe that the new Oasis will not allow the same trick. How will Amazon be able to lock it down from playing sideloaded files? They've haven't managed to do so on books yet.

Maybe we just need to convert MP3s to AAX?
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