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Posted by Technobarbarian on 12/09/05 03:19
"cloakydoe" <cloakydoe@yahoo.com> wrote in message
news:1134091273.688106.209130@z14g2000cwz.googlegroups.com...
> has anyone created a program go transcode audible.com format into
> something <ahem> shall we say 'more friendly'?
>
> Here is my predicament:
> I've been a subscriber to audible.com for a couple of years and I'm
> fairly happy with their service. I recently bought a couple
> squeezeboxes for playing my digital content in various parts of my
> house. Unfortunately squeezebox doesn't support proprietary DRM
> formats like audible.com.
>
> The best solution would be a audible.com plugin for slimserver.
> Barring this, the next best solution would be to transcode the
> audible.com files into an open format the my squeezebox can play.
>
> I'm sure the 'evil doers' of the world have no problem accessing
> proprietary formats like audible or apples DRMed AAC, it is just honest
> folks like me who want to exercise their fair use rights and play
> content they lawfully own on some new equipment that are foiled by
> these confounded schemes.
>
> I could burn the audible content to CDs and then turn around and rip
> those CDs to mp3 but that is way too painful. The whole point of
> digital content is to avoid this sort of pain!
Oh pulleeze, spare us the tap dancing. You do not "own" the content. You
bought a limited license and now after spending who knows what ridiculous
amount of money you figured out that what you bought won't cut it. If the
"whole point" of digital content is avoiding this sort of pain then you're
getting your ones and zeros from the wrong place.
This is part of your contract with Audible.com, which you of course
didn't read and don't plan to honor: "Audible Content from the Audible
Service, Audible grants you a limited, revocable, non-exclusive,
non-transferable license to download or stream such Audible Content to your
computer and/or your Device(s) solely for your personal non-commercial use.
You shall not copy, reproduce, distribute or use the Audible Content in any
other manner. You shall not sell, transfer, lease, modify, distribute or
publicly perform the Audible Content in any manner and you shall not exploit
it commercially. Do not (A) decompile, disassemble, or reverse engineer the
Audible Content or attempt to do so; or (B) modify the Audible Content or
create any derivative works therefrom. This license to the Audible Content
you Purchase will continue for as long as your copy of Audible Content
exists pursuant to and in accordance with the terms and conditions of this
Agreement." It defines the limits of what you *really* own.
That said, there are various schemes for capturing the output of your
sound card and converting that to the format you want. Tunebite is one of
them:
http://www.tunebite.com/website/v2/en/home.php?affiliate=1580ff2c915cff87a5e22a68c06d32ad
There are others. If this thread is to be believed Audible.com's DRM is
particularly easy to work around:
http://www.mp3machine.com/discussion/messages/11646.shtml Here's another
method:
http://www.jakeludington.com/ask_jake/20050607_unlocking_audible_books_legally.html
TB
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