Hi guys and thank you for your help. Nick, the file is too big to sample, tens of megs, and indeed to play it requires my audible user name and password. Thank you for the offer.
I know about goldwave, the current version is too embedded in windows to work on wine and previous versions are nowhere to be found. The option suggested by Nick and Chris to write a CD is what I'll go for. Problem is you can do it only once (legally) and I have to be careful when I'll do it because you can invoke the "bad media" excuse only once. Plus the machine where I'm going to do it has to be connected to the net because every attempt to listen to the file or to burn it on CD in audio format will require authentication to the audible site (checked with zonealarm, can't get away without it) I don't have an ipod but I have a jasjar and audible claims they provide a player for Win5 devices and smart phones. The link however seems to be broken. Needless to say I'll cancel my account with them after I burn the CD, there are other avenues to get what I want, totally legal and in portable formats. Agreed, FairPlay is misnaming. Thank you all again, Adrian On Sun, 2006-10-29 at 10:57 +1300, Nick Rout wrote: > On Sun, 29 Oct 2006 07:51:59 +1300 > Volker Kuhlmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FairPlay > > > > " FairPlay is a digital rights management (DRM) technology > > created by Apple Computer, built in to the QuickTime multimedia > > technology and used by the iPod, iTunes, and the iTunes Store. > > > > ... > > > > An intentional limitation of Fairplay is that it prevents iTunes > > customers from using the purchased music on any portable digital > > music player other than the Apple iPod." > > > > How cynical by Big Bastard Corporation(TM) to call this "fair play". > > > > Volker > > Yes, typical misnaming, but back on topic it seems you can use the > audible.com software and/or iTunes to write a non-drm audio cd (ie > uncompressed cdda) which can then be used to make unlimited copies in > as many formats and codecs as the little pirate's heart desires. :-) > > However this doesn't help on linux unless some of this software runs > via wine (and there are some suggestions that it might, but I don't > really have the inclination to try, especially as I don't have an .aa > file to play with, and Adrian hasn't got back about a sample file. > anyway I think a sample file would require his audible.com username > and password so I am not sure its such a good idea anyway !) > > There is also some windows software called goldwave that will > apparently decode the files to mp3, but again you'd need to see if it > works under wine. > > Other solutions seem to involve taking the analogue (ie headphone) > output from the iPod and recording it digitally again. Hardly a great > solution. > > I'd look for the material elsewhere, its interesting how people who are > prepared to pay for content on audible.com are driven to other, > possibly illegal, methods because audible are so anal about how you are > able to listen to their music. > >
