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Gale Andrews
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Re: Amazon Audible

Post by Gale Andrews » Mon May 11, 2015 11:10 am

steve wrote:
yaknala wrote:So here it is from the Horses mouth, NO DRM....
and to be fair, that is NOT what you asked in your original question.
Absolutely. You asked about converting AA to MP3. From http://audible.custhelp.com/app/answers ... /burn%20CD
At this time you are unable to burn Audible content to a DVD or MP3 disc. In order to protect the intellectual property rights of our content providers and authors, you are unable to convert Audible audiobooks to any format other than the .aa or .aax files offered by Audible.

As far as I know, the MP3 format does not properly support DRM so if you had said you had an MP3 the answer would have been completely different. I answered what you asked - how to remove the DRM from an AA file (which always have DRM).

I agree there is an argument if you paid for an AA book you should be able to use it as you see fit, but we cannot go too far with helping users break DRM. Giving you step by step instructions would be going too far, in my opinion. And again, this appears to be nothing to do with Audacity.
yaknala wrote:I do not know what is wrong with my CD device, but when I put a blank in it tells me to insert a cd so it is not reading it.
If you have an MP3 why can't you put it directly on the stick? :? You only need to burn the CD if you only have an AA file.


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