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.
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bkw