What is an M4B File and 6 Best M4B Players for All Devices

iTunes is a software program that is not only excellent in organizing music and TV shows on Windows and Mac, but it may also serve as an audiobook player. With it, you can easily manage your audiobooks by artists, albums, songs, or genres. As stated previously, some M4B audiobooks can be downloaded from iTunes. So you can directly use iTunes to play your M4B audiobook files. Moreover, you can also add your own audiobooks to iTunes for hassle-free playback.
Apart from playing audiobooks on a computer, it can even transfer audiobooks to your iPhone or other iOS devices for playback anytime and anywhere.

Most people may already know VLC media player. It is a free, open-source, and cross-platform multimedia player that supports most media files, including digital video/audio files, DVDs, Audio CDs, VCDs, and various streaming protocols. Being a powerful multimedia player, you can use it to play M4B files as well as other media files without codec packs needed on all platforms like Windows, Mac OS X, Linux, Unix, iOS, and Android. It has the most complete feature-set over the video, subtitle synchronization, video, and audio filters.
Besides being an excellent M4B file player, VLC also allows you to rip DVDs, convert media files, download online videos and music, and more.

If you hope to play your audiobooks on Windows, you can also use Windows Media Player to open the M4B files. Windows Media Player is a digital media player and media library that Microsoft developed to play audio and video files on Windows. When playing an M4B file in Windows Media Player, you may first get a message saying that the file extension cannot be recognized. But don’t worry. Just ignore this message and click “Yes”, then you can play your M4B files successfully.
While playback, it offers some practical features like fast forward, reverse, file markers, and more. Apart from playing local files, Windows Media Player also supports streaming playback with multicast streams and progressive downloads.

Audible Audiobook Player is the world’s largest and most advanced audiobook service, an Amazon company, offering exclusive books, audio shows, memoirs, and book series. With Audible, you can play your own M4B audiobook files as well as listen to the audiobooks provided by it. As a powerful audiobook player, it offers solid playback features, such as chapter navigation, bookmarks, a sleep mode, variable playback speed, adjustable narration speed, and multitasking support for background playback and downloading. Moreover, the Audible player also offers superior audio quality without interruptions and allows you to quickly move forward and backward.

Aside from playing M4B files with iTunes, Bookmobile Audiobook Player is also a handy M4B file player that can play audiobook files from iTunes, Audible, public library downloads, and other popular sources. It is simple to use with its clean design. Bookmobile also offers full control that keeps you from easily losing your place. Other features like drive and sleep modes, background playback, play order priorities adjustment, etc. are also provided. You can even combine multiple files into one archive file for easier management, customize skip settings, and more.
It is said to offer a better experience for listening to audiobooks than any other app.

Smart Audiobook Player is an excellent application designed for playing audiobooks on Android. It offers the most comfortable way and many useful features to listen to audiobooks. This audiobook player supports almost all audio formats that allow you to play M4B audiobooks as well as other audio files. Besides other common features provided by any audiobook player, Smart Audiobook Player also supports other features like Chromecast, download cover from the Internet, lock screen feature (avoid accidental chapter skipping), built-in cover art searching and downloading, automatic pause (in case you fall sleep).

*here is a simple guide for converting M4B to other formats with Free HD Video Converter Factory:

Step 1. DownloadDownload and launch WonderFox Free HD Video Converter Factory.

Step 2. Choose the “Converter” module and then drag and drop your M4B files into the workspace.

Step 3. Press the format image on the right side to open the output format library. Then go to the “Audio” tab and select a preferred output audio format like MP3, WAV, etc.

Step 4. Select an output folder by clicking the bottom ▼ button. Then press “Run” to start the conversion.

After finishing the conversion, you can get the converted files and play them on any device without issue.