On Sun, 2016-10-30 at 15:12 +0000, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
On Sun, 2016-10-30 at 10:41 -0400, Bob Goodwin wrote:
>
> On 10/30/16 10:30, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
> >
> >
> > AFAIK you can't. Audible distributes DRM-protected books and has no
> > Linux player for them. Some people convert their books to MP3 by
> > "playing" them in the Audible app under Windows and recording the
> > output with a special-purpose Windows driver, but that's a slow process
> > as the app won't go at more than double speed.
> >
> > poc
>
> I have a player that plays "protected" books from the "National
Library
> Service for the Blind and Physically Handicapped" and I imagine they
> might play in that? It certainly plays "unprotected" files, but I
don't
> know if the DRM requirement is specific to a certain source, I tend
> to doubt that it is?
If those are Audible books then possibly, but I believe Audible's DRM
format is proprietary. However,
see http://www.guidingtech.com/56670/re
move-drm-protection-audible-audiobooks/ for possible solutions.
(Sorry, hit Send too soon).
The above points to a commercial tool under MacOS or Windows, that
enables conversion to iTunes format or burning to a (virtual) CD. Quite
painful and expensive, though it should work under a VM in Fedora. I
haven't tried it. Audible is smart enough to keep their monthly
subscription rate low enough that I always have spare credits and don't
need to go the dark side :-)
Of course there are completely free audiobooks
at http://www.openculture.com/freeaudiobooks
though the quality is variable.
poc