That was actually harder than just disassembling it and messing with the C# code directly so I did that. I was happy until my library started getting big. Lots of incremental enhancements ever since including ditching sql server for sqlite (which EF made very easy) and porting entirely to. Later added tagging, and hiding, and eventually replaced the guts with a real open source search engine (Lucene) which made it way more powerful. I fixed and by writing a screen scraper, importing into a db, then built a UI for viewing, sorting, and filtering. I'm heavily in the free-use camp and have made it a point of habit, ideology, and pride to strip DRM from anything I buy so I can use it as I damn well please.Īudible has superlative content but awful organization no way to bulk download no way to decrypt. Shortly after college in the early 2000s was when the DRM battles were all the rage. I decided to give something back and publish AAX Audio Converter as Open Source, too. I guess your Libation is the result of similar motivation. ![]() I also looked at OpenAudible, but that was one of the single large file category plus adding overhead for a downloader I did not need or a library enclosure I did not want.Īnd as I had learned a number of essential details from some of the other Open Source projects in the field (OpenAudible had already stopped being Open Source, without telling you), I decided to give something back and publish AAX Audio Converter as Open Source, too. ![]() And some would still leave me with a single large file, like the original AAX to MP3. Some could split by chapter or split by time or silence, but did not combine these three options, so obvious to me now. I looked around for other tools, but found none that came anywhere close to my ideas. A friend pointed me to “AAX to MP3” on SourceForge, but that (al least the original version) would leave me with one large MP3 file for the entire book, and would have involved manual post-processing again, to obtain short enough tracks suitable for listening while driving. But almost every media player has the rewind and jump back function and jumping back to the beginning of the track has always been so convenient.Ī newer iTunes version then enforced 2 second gaps between tracks. When traffic requires your attention, your brains switch and you miss what’s being narrated during that time. And the short tracks make book navigation easy. I mainly listen to my audio books while driving, from a USB stick plugged into my car audio system. Basically I liked and favoured short tracks. ITunes produced multiple tracks, each exactly 8 minutes long, almost always cut mid-word, crackling noise included. mp3, the result tailored with mp3DirectCut (those stupid overlaps between disks) and then finally, tags, cover image and file names had to be reinserted or adjusted. Those CDs were always virtual, of course. And I guess your Libation is the result of similar motivation.įor a long time I followed the official Audible guideline and started with iTunes to burn my books to CD. Fascinating stuff.Īs written a few times before, the idea behind AAX Audio Converter was the automation of my tedious manual workflow I had become kind of used to over the years. ORM there, however, is not based on scaffolding but on meta data and code generators (MDA). Nonetheless I like working with EF and nowadays EF Core and I do it a lot in my professional life. They were already enough good multimedia management systems available. After downloading, install it like any other Windows application.I had started on a multimedia database myself a few years ago, also in C# with EF and SQLite, but more as a playground than a serious project. First, head over to OpenAudible GitHub page and download the latest version for Windows (file with. ![]() It is a very simple application that lets you download, listen, and convert Audible audiobooks.ġ. Since the Audible provides no first-party application for our purpose, we are going to use a free and open-source application called OpenAudible. Just follow the steps as is and you will be. Though sounds complicated, it is pretty easy to do. First, you need to download the Audible audiobook. There are two major steps to convert Audible audiobooks to MP3. Let me show how you can rip and convert Audible audiobooks to MP3. That’s where this tutorial comes into play. Once you’ve done that, you can play the converted audiobooks on any device and using any music or MP3 application. So, if you want to use a third-party audiobook reader, you first need to convert the Audible audiobooks to MP3 format. In fact, the audiobook files are encrypted and download in a special format called “AAX”. The thing is, Audible doesn’t allow third-party players.
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