Slow playback of audio books on Zen To

Hi,
was just wondering if anyone had any experience with audio books playback? I have dowloaded some free audio books, which are predictably of very poor quality.
The problem is, while they play ok on an PC (lots of noise etc, but bearable), the playback on ZT is slowed down, like a cassete player (remember those) when the battery is dying.
any suggestions?
and does anyone know of any good free audio books sources with a decent quality?
many thanks!

they are encoded at the wrong speed, although i dont know much about this, if you search "slowed down" you will get a thread that will solve your problem

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