How to create a 'Make Your Own' Yoto card (and how we use it with Ambleside Online)

We listen to our Yoto Mini 100% by first making "Make Your Own" cards. These are blank cards (every Yoto player comes with 1 Make Your Own Card). I buy extras, and we download audiobooks, create playlists on the Yoto website, and then use the app and Yoto mini to sink the playlists to the card.

To follow this tutorial you'll need:
1, Your computer with the audio files on it that you want to turn into a Yoto card
2. A Yoto mini (or regular) plus Make Your Own cards
3. The Yoto app

Since Toto cards with stories are SO expensive, the Make Your Own Cards are the inexpensive way to use a Yoto mini. Since we use Ambleside Online, I'm able to download a lot of older books via Librivox to use for free too.

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[Laughswithoutfear]

This was abundantly helpful. Thank you!

[marymcg]

Can I do this as a gift if I don't own a Yoto? I know I could just send the parents the audio file, but then it's more work for them and doesn't open as Christmas-ready :P Would it work to borrow a third-party's Yoto to program the card, then gift the finished cards when we travel to see them?

[juliequates]

Thanks!! Is there a list of Librovox audio titles that are Ambleside books?

[Xyz-webd]

Why won’t the Yoto cards play when you’re offline? How do you get it to play offline? I searched it up, but not much info was given.

[racheltruax]

Where's the best place to download read alouds of children's picture books?

[leeumsplayhouse]

I disagree with this being a helpful video. You're very kind to try, but I can go read the directions from the internet just like you did. I clicked on your video because your thumbnail showed your computer screen, indicating to me that you would be SHOWING us step by step how to do it. Next time it might help to take 1 minute to connect your yoto to your wifi, film with a different device and use your phone to show the process. This was a total waste of time.