Comments on: How To: Convert Audible .aa Files to .mp3 Quickly

By: me

me — Sat, 04 Sep 2010 19:29:12 +0000

Fuck that iGoons crap, and fuck all that fucking about too.

Do this (haven’t tried it on Linux, but it works for Windows):

1. Set up Audible to play on the PC, not your Android or any other device.

2. Find, download and install audibleMediaPlayerFilter.exe

– this is an old app, no longer used by Audiballs, which will install an aa-compatible codec, used in a later step.

3. Download the horrible aa file from audible using the horrible audibleManager thing.

4. Find and download LAME. Drop a copy of lame_enc.dll into the C:/Windows/System directory.
– Goldwave needs the lame dll in this location in order to be able to export to MP3, so if you already have lame installed, just drag another copy of the dll here.

5. Find, download and install Goldwave 5.06 (don’t use a later version–they’ve been munged).

6. Open Goldwave; use Goldwave to open the downloaded aa file.

7. Save the opened aa file as an MP3.

For additional points, you could skip the lame step and export the file from Goldwave as a wav file, then open the wav in CD Wave (which is nicer than Goldwave for tracking) and add track divisions.

Goldwave does tracking too, using what it calls “cue points”, but it seems a bit of a faff to scroll and zoom in and out of Goldwave to get the cue points in nice places; I prefer CD Wave for tracking.

By: go yankees

go yankees — Sat, 28 Aug 2010 05:47:17 +0000

The -S option in line 49, can that be modified to a better sample rate & is there any option being looked at for .aax

By: Rod Hilton

Rod Hilton — Sat, 21 Aug 2010 15:22:05 +0000

Mike:

Oh, you wanted something efficient? Sheesh, just download the AA to MP3 converter! I introduced all this inefficient bullshit just for fun, not because I had to in order to make this work!

By: Mike

Mike — Sat, 21 Aug 2010 15:11:31 +0000

Is this still the only method to convert the proprietary and unpopular AA files to something more useful, like MP3?
This process is highly inefficient: download a 100MB AA file, ‘burn’ it to 7×700MB NRG image files (=5 GIGABYTE), now convert these 5GB to another 5GB of WAV files, then compress them back to generate MP3 files – in total these original 100MB have turned over more than 10Gigabyte to finally yield about 200MB of MP3 files, a 98% overhead in space, running for about an hour…

A NRG2MP3 converter tool would be a perfect tool to have, if image files exist.
Oddly enough I cannot find such a tool out there, why is that?

By: andres

andres — Sat, 07 Aug 2010 14:33:13 +0000

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By: andres

andres — Sat, 07 Aug 2010 00:16:40 +0000

Hi all
I have been reading through the above lively conversations, with a new entry every few days. Now, at 21 April 2010 all conversations stopped. What happend?

By: Flidger

Flidger — Sun, 04 Jul 2010 20:50:15 +0000

Hey Rod,

Nice bit of work. As you can now extract direct to mp3 through the GUI is there no way of doing the same through the command line and skipping a step?

By: QuietOne

QuietOne — Sun, 27 Jun 2010 16:52:23 +0000

the download links given don’t appear to work for Ruby or Lame.

I’ve found Lame installer elsewhere but then I don’t know how to install it.

I have a LOT of audible books and I’d like to be able to listen to them in the car. This is proving difficult.

Will Nero 7 Premium work? or image burn?

It would be great to see this rewritten for total “freeware”

By: 10Ring

10Ring — Wed, 09 Jun 2010 16:20:44 +0000

The correct link for Ruby
http://rubyinstaller.org/

By: Rag

Rag — Tue, 08 Jun 2010 19:41:39 +0000

Thank you! Simply superb! works great. Also thank you for introducing Ruby.
Cheers