Audible drm removal

MBony

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I have a Sandisk Sansa and I can't get my Audible files on there without removing the drm. Is there a way to do this in OS X?
 

TheStu

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Originally posted by: MBony
Originally posted by: mmntech
Can you not just burn them to a CD then rip it?

I'm not sure about free solutions but a couple of payware ones popped up. Macsome iTunes Music Converter is one.
http://www.macsome.com/itunes-converter-mac/

Oh I could rip it, but who wants to burn 12 cd's per book?

I think that part of the iTunes license agreement (assuming you bought them from there) is that they can only be played on iTunes/iPods.

However, what would be useful (anyone want tell me if this exists) is if you could trick iTunes into using a Virtual CD Burner and just 'burn' ISOs of the playlists.
 

mmntech

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Originally posted by: TheStu
Originally posted by: MBony
Originally posted by: mmntech
Can you not just burn them to a CD then rip it?

I'm not sure about free solutions but a couple of payware ones popped up. Macsome iTunes Music Converter is one.
http://www.macsome.com/itunes-converter-mac/

Oh I could rip it, but who wants to burn 12 cd's per book?

However, what would be useful (anyone want tell me if this exists) is if you could trick iTunes into using a Virtual CD Burner and just 'burn' ISOs of the playlists.

There's a program I found called Noteburner that does just that. Payware though. Maybe somebody knows of a freeware alternative.
http://www.noteburner.com/
 

TheStu

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There is a free trial for that, see if that works for you OP. Or, if it isn't too expensive (I didn't look at the price since I am at work), then maybe buy it. This is possibly going to come up again.
 

MBony

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Originally posted by: TheStu
Originally posted by: MBony
Originally posted by: mmntech
Can you not just burn them to a CD then rip it?

I'm not sure about free solutions but a couple of payware ones popped up. Macsome iTunes Music Converter is one.
http://www.macsome.com/itunes-converter-mac/

Oh I could rip it, but who wants to burn 12 cd's per book?

I think that part of the iTunes license agreement (assuming you bought them from there) is that they can only be played on iTunes/iPods.

However, what would be useful (anyone want tell me if this exists) is if you could trick iTunes into using a Virtual CD Burner and just 'burn' ISOs of the playlists.

There is another similar program called hxmusicconverter that does just that. But it is payware. FYI, I got the audiobook from Audible.