Posted by machine_nine on 12/30/05 03:43

cloakydoe wrote:
> 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

I just finished opening a 200-minute aa file in Goldwave. I then saved
it as an mp3. Took about 20 minutes total.

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