Remove DRM from Audible's audio books (Removing copy-protection from .AA files)

Remove DRM from Audible's audio books (Removing copy-protection from .AA files)

 

Audio books from Audible come with copy-protection. What if your player is not compatible with .AA format? What if you want to listen to them on any device you have?

• Remove copy-protection from .AA files using DRM removal software like Soundtaxi, Tunebite.
• Remove copy-protection by recording from your sound card using direct sound recording software like freeware sound editor Audacity. Like the above mentioned DRM removal software these programs record sound produced by your sound card.
• Remove copy-protection from .AA files by burning copy-protected audio files to Audio CD and ripping them.
  • Note Burner can burn DRM protected files to a virtual audio CD and rip them. It preservs ID3 tags for artist, album, title names, etc in the ripped audio files.
  • Nero 7 can burn .AA audio files to an Audio CD.
  • Older version of Audible Manager has the ability to convert .AA files to an Audio CD (using Roxio software). You can downgrade to version 3.5 and 4.0 and work with another software (like GoldWave).
• Use DRM free audioboooks

Do you really need those ID3 tags that DRM removal software can save for you? Saving ID3 tags like artist and title is very important when removing copy-protection from music files. And what about audio books? May be it is better to save some cash? :)

Although DRM removal software usually work faster. Besides many programs allow you not to worry whether any other sounds are played by your sound card or not while you're recording something.

Re: Remove DRM from Audible's audio books (Removing copy-protection from .AA files)

 

How to convert DRM-protected Audible .AA files to DRM-free .MP3 files so that you can play them on any player.

Goldwave is an audio conversion program. It requires Audible Codecs to perform the conversion. You should install Audible Manager before Goldwave, so that Goldwave can open audible .AA audio files.

You need an older version of Audible to be able to convert with Goldwave. Try to download "audibleMediaPlayerFilter.exe" and install it.
Download audibleMediaPlayerFilter.exe:
When installing Audible software, make sure to select the "Listen on my Computer" option so that the correct files are installed by Audible for your Windows Media player. If you can listen to your .AA files in your Windows Media Player, then your Audible Manager is installed correctly.

Please note, that the newest version of of Goldwave require payment after a trial period. Download Goldwave 5.06 or earlier to get an older full version that never expires.

1. Log into you Audible account
2. Download and install Audible Manager
3. In the Audible Manager select "Edit" -> "Options" and see the "Location of Audio Files". Your .AA files will be downloaded into this folder.
4. Download an .AA audiobook from Audible.
5. Close the Audible Manager.
6. Run Goldwave
7. Select "File" -> "Open" and load the .AA audiobook from the audible download directory (see above).
   
   Note that Goldwave may require the ID and password of the Audible user who originally purchased the file before it can be opened.
8. Select "File" -> "Save". Select MP3 format, 128kbps, 44100 Hz.
9. Save the MP3 file into the target directory.
   
   Note: If you get the "Encoder not found. A recent version of the MPEG Layer 3 encoder LAME MP3 cannot be found" error, then you need to download the LAME encoder. You can usually click the "Download" button in the Goldwave window to download and install it.
10. You can use Goldwave to split MP3 file into several files:
    1. In step 8, instead of doing the "File" -> "Save", click on "Options" -> "File Format".
    2. Select the "Default Save Format" tab and select the format you need (MP3, WMA, etc.)
    3. In the attributes box, select which attribute you want and then make sure to check the "Use this format for Save As, Save Selection As, and Copy To" box. The Auto Cue setting discussed next won't work unless you set the Default Save format first.
    4. Click on "Tool" -> "Cue Points" -> "Auto Cue". Select the "Spacing" tab.
    5. The "Starting at time" should be 0.00. In the "Interval" box, select the length you want your tracks to be.
       Note that 1.0, 2.0, 5.0 etc. are seconds, not minutes! Five minutes is shown as 5:00.00, thirty minutes is shown as 30:00.00. One hour is shown as 1:00:00.00.
    6. Click on "OK" and the "Cue list" will be shown.
    7. Click "Split File". In the Destination Folder navigate to the folder where your files will be be saved.
    8. In the "Base filename" box, it will show track# or track##. The number of number (#) signs is how digits will be in the track number.
       If there will be 9 or less tracks, it should be "track#".
       If there will be 10 to 99 tracks, it should be "track##".
       If there will be 100 to 999 tracks, it should be "track###".
    9. In the "First number" box, put whatever number you like the first track to have. (This is handy if you are converting a book that has multiple parts)
    10. When you are done, click "OK" and Goldwave will start processing the tracks.
    You can also split MP3 with MP3DirectCut as well as other programs.

Note: audibleMediaPlayerFilter.exe doesn't seem to support Windows 7, so you need to use other methods mentioned in the previous post to remove DRM protection from .AA files (for example: DRM removal software like Soundtaxi works in Windows 7 x32 and x64).

Re: Remove DRM from Audible's audio books (Removing copy-protection from .AA files)

 

I have win 7x64 premium and successfully installed audiblemediaplayer.exe by running in windows xp compatibility mode as admin and copying msvci70.dll to the windows\system folder.
To run it in compatibility mode, right click the audiblemediaplayer.exe installation file, hit properties, check run this program in compatibility mode and keep it windows xp sp3. Then go to the bottom of that window and tick run program as administrator and it works like a charm. You also need to run Goldwave un the same mode during installation and possibly when running the program. Have not run it yet so I'll let you know when I do.

Converting DRMed Audio Books into .mp3s ...

 

I had to dig a bit deeper to find a complete solution for Apple Mac users which, very simply, is: The audiobook will play in iTunes on your Mac. Soundflower will route the speaker audio to the microphone where Audacity+LAME will pick it up and re-record it and export and .mp3 file.

Re: Remove DRM from Audible's audio books (Removing copy-protection from .AA files)

 

I followed these instructions to the letter, but I still can't get Goldwave to see my .aa files. I don't think it recognizes that as a valid format yet. I am running 32 bit XP, Goldwave 5.06, installed the audible filter, the missing dll and LAME, but still no dice. Any suggestions?

Remove DRM from Audible's audio books (Removing copy-protection from .AA files)

 

Updated for Windows 7 using GoldWave & Audible Download Manager. 10/11/2011

I have managed to get it working for Windows 7 x32. I will post a guide with everything. No searching for Programs, dlls, serial. It will be posted in a nice .winrar file. It will be extremely detailed, step by step. Their will never be torrents files, it will be linked to mediafire and 20 other file hosts. I promise that their will be no dead files.

I had a 2008 Audible account that I purchase a copy of eragon audiobook. I wanted to remove the drm this year (2011) and saw this site and many others. However, with dead links and painful headaches trying to figure out everything and put everything together.I tried everything from using virtual cd burner using itunes (it works however it take just to long) from spam programs *claiming* that it will convert to mp3. Too much bullshit going on the internet and I decided to write updated guide for Windows 7 users.


Please be patient as I try to finish this guide. Will be posted I hope later this week
Thanks

P.S Finished converting eragon to .mp3.

Download Sample Proof:
_http://www.mediafire.com/?7g839kdlvaxeck0

Read Me:
Also posted here _http://forums.afterdawn.com/t.cfm/f-37/guide_audible_aa_to_mp3_for_windows_7_10_11_2011-912740/#5558829

Re: Remove DRM from Audible's audio books (Removing copy-protection from .AA files)

 

This worked brilliantly for me on Windows 7, 32 bit.

Thank you so much for helping everyone else out after you had already solved your own problem.

Sharing is caring.

Re: Remove DRM from Audible's audio books (Removing copy-protection from .AA files)

 

Where can I get the toolkit (.rar file)? The links posted above no longer seem to work.

Thanks!

Re: Remove DRM from Audible's audio books (Removing copy-protection from .AA files)

 

Amazing. It works on Windows Vista! Thanks a lot - saves me playing 80 hours of audio books so I can record directly with freecorder! :)

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Re: Remove DRM from Audible's audio books (Removing copy-protection from .AA files)

 

I'm using Ubuntu 10.04 with wine.
Following the above procedure, goldwave does not recognise .aa files.
Is there any body with luck using linux?

Re: Remove DRM from Audible's audio books (Removing copy-protection from .AA files)

 

Thank you so much! The toolkit was still available (June of 2012) and everything worked great! I was already a dedicated GoldWave user, but didn't have the ability to open AA files until I downloaded the older Audible Manager version. I am converting an AA file to MP3 as I type.

Thanks again!

Re: Remove DRM from Audible's audio books (Removing copy-protection from .AA files)

 

http://swankandswill.blogspot.com/20...thout-drm.html

Setup is a little complicated but that's one-time. It's far faster and easier than anything else after that. And ridiculously ludicrously faster.
Some Audible drm strippers brag about running at 5x. 5x? A 36 hour book will only take 7.2 hours to convert? Wow where is my seat belt!!!? Try 400x ! Not 400%, 400X! A 36 hour book takes 0.09 hours, 5.4 minutes. That's with a good cpu. With a lowly Atom it only gets a paltry *90x*. What were you saying about 5x? hehe :)

Best thing is the crucial DRM-stripping part is Audibles OWN software. The directshow filter library/plugin.

The crucial speed-making part is the Helix mp3 encoder.

And dbpoweramp is just a super flexible and handy glue connecting those two together. Neither Helix nor dbpoweramp are doing any DRM stripping.

And unlike the kludges that use the cd-burning option in the desktop player, or sound-card loopbacks, or virtual sound cards, Audible can not legally claim that using the directshow filter in this way violates the intended purpose. They can claim that using the cd-burner option for any other purpose than to play a real cd, for instance burning to a fake software cd and then ripping it, or similarly using a fake virtual sound card that records instead of plays, violates the advertised purpose of the software.

But the directshow filter is by definition just a filter, a plugin, whose interface is the directshow api. No one made them make that software. If they didn't want people to have access to a generic, application-agnostic library plugin, they should not have produced and then distributed one.

All they can really do is stop distributing it themselves, and stop advertizing that it exists, and try to pretend it never did exist, and introduce new audio formats that the old filter will not know how to play. And they have done all of that. But, it really did exist and it still does.

--
bkw

Re: Remove DRM from Audible's audio books (Removing copy-protection from .AA files)

 

If I understand this correctly, this (Sound Taxi and similar) not only strips DRM from audiobooks (like DeDRM plugin in ebooks) but it must re-encode the stuff (with a degrade in sound quality) unless I choose to save it in WAV or FLAC. Correct?

Anyways, say if I had a DRM-free AA or AAX file, what are they? What codecs they use and what Windows desktop player plays them natively?

Re: Remove DRM from Audible's audio books (Removing copy-protection from .AA files)

 

I followed the procedure by toXiclabs dated 10/12/2011 in this thread on Windows 8.1 64-bit computer (March 2014). Worked great! Was able to convert a 2-hour Audible audiobook into MP3 format in about 22 minutes. All other tools, purchased or free, do the conversion in real time, meaning the conversion takes as long as the audiobook playing length is!!!

Thanks a million!

Re: Remove DRM from Audible's audio books (Removing copy-protection from .AA files)

 

Been using the Goldwave method for years and still works like a charm on win7 64bit. But I have yet to cone across a way to convert the new audible format, aax i think it's called. Anyone know how?
Toolkit links still works btw

Re: Remove DRM from Audible's audio books (Removing copy-protection from .AA files)

 

I put together a free tool to automate the .aa to mp3 / wav process. I call it inAudible and you can find it here.

Besides installing the Audible Manager (which all Audible users should have, anyway) it shouldn't require any additional codecs or libraries.

Features:

• Includes and installs required codecs and DLLs
• Includes LAME and will auto-encode if desired
• Allows for multiple input files and a single file destination mask
• Will split the encoded file into smaller, more managable files using silence detection to find chapter breaks

I have tested it on XP, Win7 x64 and Win 8.1. Seems to work, although 8.1 needed a reboot.

Re: Remove DRM from Audible's audio books (Removing copy-protection from .AA files)

 

As far as speed goes, I just tested it on a 2.2ghz i7. It took 10 minutes to decrypt, split and re-encode a 23 hour audiobook. 138x speed-up isn't bad.

Re: Remove DRM from Audible's audio books (Removing copy-protection from .AA files)

 

This worked perfectly for me, thanks!

Re: Remove DRM from Audible's audio books (Removing copy-protection from .AA files)

 

Nice work! This is an excellent tool! The splitting is an awesome feature. You might want to include zlib1.dll in your next release though.

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For anyone getting a SOX error (when splitting is turned on), you might need zlib1.dll.

I downloaded the zipped version of SOX from here:
http://sourceforge.net/projects/sox/files/sox/

and copied zlib1.dll to C:\Program Files (x86)\inAudible\

Re: Remove DRM from Audible's audio books (Removing copy-protection from .AA files)

 

Not sure what happened there, but I have (hopefully) fixed this in the new version.

With this update, I have introduced multithreading to take advantage of multicore CPU's. To take advantage of this, you need to have audio splitting enabled. It's a pretty significant speed-up depending on the number of chapters that you have. I get about a 2x overall speed-up on my system, with a 4x decrease in the encoding time (since I have four cores).

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Re: Remove DRM from Audible's audio books (Removing copy-protection from .AA files)

 

Link not working? The requested URL /~inwards/cruft/inAudible003.msi was not found on this server

Re: Remove DRM from Audible's audio books (Removing copy-protection from .AA files)

 

Link for inAudible004.msi is also down. Any chance of a reup?
Thanks

Re: Remove DRM from Audible's audio books (Removing copy-protection from .AA files)

 

audible digitally watermarks the audiobooks. The watermark persists even after DRM removal.

Re: Remove DRM from Audible's audio books (Removing copy-protection from .AA files)

 

Looks like it's now offline... If the OP would be kind enough to make it available somewhere, I'd appreciate it. If not .. does anyone else have a copy they'd be willing to share with me?

Re: Remove DRM from Audible's audio books (Removing copy-protection from .AA files)

 

i think maybe someone took over dev on this?

after lots of searching finally found link - https://infotomb.com/k1v3m.7z

new version is amazing!!!!!!! converted a 10 hour aax to m4b in 20 seconds!!!!!

Re: Remove DRM from Audible's audio books (Removing copy-protection from .AA files)

 

does someone got a link that works .?k1v3m is great i tried but deleted and now i need it again

Re: Remove DRM from Audible's audio books (Removing copy-protection from .AA files)

 

new version http://tinyurl.com/inAudible164

Re: Remove DRM from Audible's audio books (Removing copy-protection from .AA files)

 

Newer version - http://bit.ly/inAudible1666

Re: Remove DRM from Audible's audio books (Removing copy-protection from .AA files)

 

Newer versions:

Windows 1.71 - http://bit.ly/inAudible171

Mac 0.09 - http://bit.ly/MinAudible009

Re: Remove DRM from Audible's audio books (Removing copy-protection from .AA files)

 

Thanks for posting all the updates! :)

Re: Remove DRM from Audible's audio books (Removing copy-protection from .AA files)

 

This is really really great!! I have used the old burning method because I didn't know this exists!!

Thank you so much!

Re: Remove DRM from Audible's audio books (Removing copy-protection from .AA files)

 

I downloaded it and thought it's just another "decryptor" that converts only.

I was wrong. This can actually decrypt stuff without re-encoding.
Thanks a lot!:D

Re: Remove DRM from Audible's audio books (Removing copy-protection from .AA files)

 

This is good stuff

Thanks HardCoded ! :)

Re: Remove DRM from Audible's audio books (Removing copy-protection from .AA files)

 

This can of course not convert music files. Right?

Re: Remove DRM from Audible's audio books (Removing copy-protection from .AA files)

 

THANKS! I have purchased several "others" that took HOURS to remove DRM from my PURCHASED Audible library and found this thread. After finally finding it, it is TURBO! taking 1-2 min to process 14-16 hour audiobooks! THANKS!!!

Re: Remove DRM from Audible's audio books (Removing copy-protection from .AA files)

 

Hi - am new to all this - just paid for a large book from amazon then find I can't save it to my little mp3 player. Found this great thread so tried using "inaudible" on my W10 PC but as soon as it starts the conversion process it fails. ANy help please - or am I doing something wrong? I downloaded audible as instructed from amazon to get the files and have the files now downloaded to my PC. The programme seems to recognise them OK but fails when the conversion starts.

Re: Remove DRM from Audible's audio books (Removing copy-protection from .AA files)

 

Further to previous post - tried installing on XP machine and this time the inAudible software ran for a bit before a script error came up as a popup saying aax2wav.exe encountered a problem and in the log area, several red messages about SOX failure. Does this mean something to someone? and what can I do?:)

Re: Remove DRM from Audible's audio books (Removing copy-protection from .AA files)

 

i dont know if it will fix your problem but you could try the newest version: http://bit.ly/inAudible175

also, go into the advanced settings and make sure that inaudible-ng is checked.