Posted by cloakydoe on 12/09/05 01:21

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!

....cd

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