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1. Download your own AAX files (using the Audible download manager or search around for some ways to do it w/o the download manager). 2. Find out your 'activati
by anatoly 7y ago
1. Download your own AAX files (using the Audible download manager or search around for some ways to do it w/o the download manager).
2. Find out your 'activation keys' using ffprobe and the inAudible-NG project, see instructions here: https://github.com/inAudible-NG/tables/blob/master/README.md https://github.com/inAudible-NG/tables/blob/master/README.md. Needs to be done only once for your Audible account.
3. Use ffmpeg with --activation_bytes to convert AAX to MP3 or other formats, either directly or with a nice script like this one that'll divide into chapters: https://github.com/KrumpetPirate/AAXtoMP3 https://github.com/KrumpetPirate/AAXtoMP3
OpenAudible looks like a nice tool that'll automate all of these steps for you.
- Wowfunhappy 7y agoWhy is transcoding necessary even if the AAC option is used? (I was under the impression that audible used aac under the hood.) Is this avoidable?
- anatoly 7y agoI'm not sure. Possibly if you try ffmpeg's -a copy and such, it'll simply extract the AAC. Let me know if it works for you. I've always wanted mp3 in the past so I didn't mind the transcoding.
- MrMember 7y agoI recently used AAXtoMP3 to back up my Audible library. It worked quite well.