converting ePub3 with embedded audio for Kindle Fire?

[curtf]

I have a series of ePubs with many short embedded audio clips (all .mp3) that work well in iBooks on iOS & Mac. Now I'm looking into making them work on Kindle Fire.

I successfully used the KindleGen utility in Terminal to convert to .mobi, and the images & text were OK on the device, but no sound controls were visible.

I then tried KindleUnPack v0.80 to split the mobi file into mobi7 (.mobi) & mobi8 (.azw3) versions. The .azw3 version still shows no audio controls.

The mobi7 version shows speaker icons where the sounds are, but tapping them gives the message "Unable to Play Audio File - The selected audio content could not be played. Please try downloading the content again."

In the unzipped version of the mobi7 that KindleUnpack made, I see an 'Images' folder with the images, but no sign of the sound files having been copied over.

Is there a step I'm missing? Any way to do this? The audio has tags like this:

<audio controls="controls" preload="preload" src="media/German_4.02.mp3"></audio>

Thanks!

[Cinisajoy]

First, you are asking in the wrong place. I have put in a request to have this moved.

[curtf]

Sorry, I'm new to the community. What would be a better place to ask? Thanks.

[Cinisajoy]

Originally Posted by curtf

Sorry, I'm new to the community. What would be a better place to ask? Thanks.

Do not double post. As soon as a mod sees my report, this thread will be moved to the correct place.
Now as to your question, my guess would be because audio files are different from mobi or azw files.

It looks like it should be in Kindle Formats.

[knc1]

Originally Posted by curtf

Sorry, I'm new to the community. What would be a better place to ask? Thanks.

Your post asked specifically about the Kindle Fire HD.
Try posting in the Kindle Fire forum.
https://www.mobileread.com/forums/fo...play.php?f=243

This is the grayscale Kindle forum, we don't do colors, we don't do Android OS and we would like to pretend that the Amazon OS is an open system.

[Cinisajoy]

Originally Posted by knc1

Your post asked specifically about the Kindle Fire HD.
Try posting in the Kindle Fire forum.
https://www.mobileread.com/forums/fo...play.php?f=243

This is the grayscale Kindle forum, we don't do colors, we don't do Android and we would like to pretend that the Amazon OS is an open system.

He is making the epubs so I think Kindle Formats would be better.

[knc1]

Originally Posted by Cinisajoy

He is making the epubs so I think Kindle Formats would be better.

Playing embedded mp3 files is prohibited by design on the grayscale Kindles, the Fire forum might know if Amazon did the same to the tablets.