tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6440715312111336773.post2514678129719368874..comments2022-10-04T00:11:35.337-07:00Comments on Swank and Swill: Audible.com without DRMUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger10125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6440715312111336773.post-44286924514056399792018-09-14T00:01:22.478-07:002018-09-14T00:01:22.478-07:00NOT THE POINT OR WHY I CAME HERE. I WANT BACK THE ...NOT THE POINT OR WHY I CAME HERE. I WANT BACK THE ABILITY TO LISTEN TO MY PURCHASES WITHOUT BEING TOLD I HAVE HAVA I TUNES TO PLAY AUDIBLE BOOKS NOW THAT THEY TABBED MEDIA PLAYER CUSTOMERS IN THE BACK. IT IS NIT ABOUT STEALING OR BREAKING THE FUCKING LAW. ANY OTHER BOOK IN ANY FORMAT CAN BE USED WITH WINDOWS MEDIA PLAYER. THIS JUST HAPPENED. I HAVE BOOKS IN MY PLAYER THAT NO LONGER WORK. WHY? I'M LISTENING TO MY PROPERTY. THEY GAVE ME A HARD TIME JUST BECAUSE BOOKS WERE AVAILABLE IN THE CLOUD, FUCK THE CLOUD. I BOUGHT THEM, I WANT PHYSICAL POSSESSION OF THEM. THIS OUTCOME S BULLSHIT. AND NO ONE ANSWERED THE QUESTION OF WHAT TO DO?Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11416050696247660759noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6440715312111336773.post-91023796762343440642018-09-13T23:48:50.567-07:002018-09-13T23:48:50.567-07:00YOUR SNARK ID RIDICULOUS ON ITS FACE, I WANT TO PL...YOUR SNARK ID RIDICULOUS ON ITS FACE, I WANT TO PLAY MY PURCHASES ON MY PREFERRED PLAYER, I DON'T USE APPLE PRODUCTS AND DON'T FEEL I SHOULD FORCED TO USE THEM AND TO ALSO CLUTTER UP MY LIMITED SPACE. I BOUGHT THE FUCKING BOOK. IT IS MY PROPERTY. SHOULDN'T BE FORCED TO BUY PLAYERS/APPS I DON'T WANT OR NEED. MS WAS SUED DUE TO FORCED LOADING AND MONOPOLY. ASSHOLES.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11416050696247660759noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6440715312111336773.post-92033022494604230872018-09-13T23:40:06.994-07:002018-09-13T23:40:06.994-07:00I AGREE 100%. SPENT A TOTAL OF 9 HOURS WITH THREE ...I AGREE 100%. SPENT A TOTAL OF 9 HOURS WITH THREE "REPRESENTATIVE, DURING THREE CALLS. ALL THEY COULD WAS TELL ME THERE WAS NOTHING TO DO ABOUT IT. CAN'T EVEN PLAY THE OLDER FILES THAT WORKED BEFORE. BLAMED MS/WINDOWS FOR THE FUCK UP WE FIND OURSELVES, AS CUSTOMERS IN, I BOUGHT THOSE FUCKING BOOKS AND HATE APPLE/I TUNES/AUDIBLE. I HAVE A PC, DAMMIT. UNTIL I TRIED TODAY, THE BOOKS IN MEDIA PLAYER WORKED JUST FINE. THIS BULLSHIT.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11416050696247660759noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6440715312111336773.post-356403084630144032017-12-19T22:48:30.902-08:002017-12-19T22:48:30.902-08:00Which exact part of this is illegal?
That was a t...Which exact part of this is illegal?<br /><br />That was a trick question. No part of this is illegal. <br /><br />The key component is a piece of software that Audible themselves produced and distributed publicly and for free on their own web site for years.<br /><br />You have to have a valid working Audible account and some books purchased under your own account in order to play them through the directshow filter.<br /><br />You even have to register the directshow filter with Audible, and they have to activate it for you!<br /><br />But even without that, you could always record your own sound card no matter what it's doing, including playing your book, without any special tricks, and produce the same mp3.<br /><br />This is merely a way to do that faster than real time. Whoever doesn't like that, too bad. It's not within anyone's rights to say anything about it, not Audible, not the publisher, not anyone.<br /><br />Distributing the resulting recording might be illegal, but so what?<br /><br />Distributing the name & password to your Audible account would be illegal too. But it's not illegal to write your login details on a piece of paper, in a text file, and in a password manager. You can make 20 copies of your login details in as many different formats and media as you want, including in gasp zomg a drm-free plain unencrypted text file!!! It's not illegal, and it's not merely a technicality.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6440715312111336773.post-41781996905161986182014-10-02T12:01:22.038-07:002014-10-02T12:01:22.038-07:00Tell you what - when the industry provides decent ...Tell you what - when the industry provides decent content at high-quality bitrates and stops making cumbersome DRM that all but guarantees that any "Plays4Sure" device won't work, I'll be inclined to pay more attention to your rant. I've spent far too much money on crap books and music and god knows how many devices. I pay for the content and cannot use it on the devices I want or at a quality bitrate - and you're here whining about piracy and theft of intellectual property? How about the incessant theft of money from consumers? I notice you conveniently omitted that aspect. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6440715312111336773.post-48675216716602250532014-09-22T09:36:07.280-07:002014-09-22T09:36:07.280-07:00anon because this is ridiculous:
what the hell are...anon because this is ridiculous:<br />what the hell are you talking about? music piracy is precisely equivalent to piracy of any other intellectual property -- yes a lot of work goes into a book, but do you think music runs like water? it seems to me that the point of this article was that Audible is audacious for monopolizing the digital audiobook market and forcing a proprietary, DRM-encumbered product on us.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6440715312111336773.post-91093905290228973882014-05-20T13:11:16.191-07:002014-05-20T13:11:16.191-07:00alternatively, rather than doing something illegal...alternatively, rather than doing something illegal, you could just show them how to do these steps themselves and let them buy the audio books. While i feel that music is fair game in the piracy world, a book, weather it be in written form or audio book, took a great deal of time and effort on the authors part to write. <br /><br />That and book sales are what encourages authors to continue writing further books.Unknownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04954435645785557037noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6440715312111336773.post-79310613006030104292014-03-28T12:18:36.371-07:002014-03-28T12:18:36.371-07:00Absolutely, I want to share the resultant mp3s so ...Absolutely, I want to share the resultant mp3s so people don't have to waste their time on something they paid good money for.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6440715312111336773.post-67239095172919658452014-02-26T02:33:01.773-08:002014-02-26T02:33:01.773-08:00I forgot to say "FUCK YOU AUDIBLE! I PAY FOR ...I forgot to say "FUCK YOU AUDIBLE! I PAY FOR THE CONTENT AND I SHOULDN'T HAVE TO JUMP THROUGH HOOPS TO PLAY IT WHERE I WILL. YOUR ANTI-CUSTOMER ATTITUDE MAKES ME WANT TO PASS IT AROUND TO OTHERS."Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6440715312111336773.post-35833764291832916272014-02-26T02:30:08.532-08:002014-02-26T02:30:08.532-08:00This doesn't appear to work in Win v8.1. I tri...This doesn't appear to work in Win v8.1. I tried the above with dBpoweramp Reference Release 14.4 and get the following error:<br /><br />Error converting to Wave, 'C:\.' to 'd:\'<br /> DirectShow filter for '.aa' file types is not installed, or audio file is corrupt. [clDecoder::Open]<br /><br />Works fine on my Win 7 Pro x64 system.<br /><br />Thanks for the 'how-to.' I've been burning to virtual discs forever, and this is SO much faster.<br /> Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com