AKiCiF: Audiobooks
Thursday, November 21st, 2013 09:47 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
rolanniI've gotten a note from a long-time reader, who says that they "bought something" from Audible, expecting that they would get discs, which they could use in a CD/DVD player, and was disappointed to find that they had to listen at the desktop.
So the question for the assembled multitudes is: Is there a way to copy the Audible book to (I assume) many discs? And, if so, would you lay out the steps here so this reader can follow them?
Many Spanish Aunts.
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burning audible content to CDs
Date: 2013-11-21 03:47 pm (UTC)http://audible.custhelp.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/1979/tf
Hope this helps.
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Date: 2013-11-21 03:51 pm (UTC)I could be mistaken, _my_ inability to find any way to listen to the book where _I_ wanted too caused me to give up on Audible before I had even finished listening to the free trial story I had downloaded. There may be an option hidden somewhere that I missed, which some of your other readers may mention, and I might give Audible another try. However, I like to think I made a reasonably thorough search and I couldn't find anything.
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Date: 2013-11-21 04:27 pm (UTC)So I too remain frustrated and cursing as I do not use the computer for either leasure reading or listening!
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Date: 2013-11-21 04:29 pm (UTC)Audiobooks
Date: 2013-11-21 04:39 pm (UTC)Mary in MN
Audible CDs
Date: 2013-11-21 06:11 pm (UTC)If the person was hoping to copy the audiobook and play in in a regular CD/DVD player (thus moving into the area of copyright infringement, the DRM is there for a reason) they would need a program to remove the DRM from the original file and then convert it to MP3 (or other format). I leave the exercise of finding such a program to the student.
Re: Audible CDs
Date: 2013-11-21 07:04 pm (UTC)Re: Audible CDs
Date: 2013-11-22 05:40 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2013-11-21 07:14 pm (UTC)This is also what go me listening to mp3s--which I had never done before. There is an audible "app" for android, and for ipod, iphone, etc, and you can download the same books to your android phone, ipod, tablet computer. I listen to them mostly in the car via a $3 cable that connects my phone to my CD player (my husband uses an ipod via bluetooth to his much-newer car). The same cable (for the headphone jack) would work in most CD players at home.
Hope this helps as a work-around.
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Date: 2013-11-21 08:11 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2013-11-21 10:07 pm (UTC)Audible
Date: 2013-11-22 01:08 am (UTC)If you want CDs for playing in the car, there are some devices that will plug into the MPS player and then play it over the car radio. If you have a newer model car, many will let you plug in the MP3 player directly to the car stereo system.
http://www.amazon.com/Excelvan-Wireless-Transmitter-Automobile-Smartphone/dp/B008N7CCJY/ref=sr_1_7?s=electronics&ie=UTF8&qid=1385060229&sr=1-7&keywords=mobile+FM+transmitter
Its also interesting that the listening experience is different than the reading experience. I find I can handle much more intense material in an audio book than in one I'm reading. I forget where, but somewhere I read that audio books seem to happen somewhere around your head, while reading books happen inside your head. Audio books are also slower paced, I can't skim over the details when I get really excited so it makes me grasp more of the book. The most annoying thing about audio books is not being able to easily go back and reread a part you didn't understand, or want to savor again. I love both my audio books and my regular books.....just different advantages.
Burning Audiobooks to CD
Date: 2013-11-22 03:33 am (UTC)Unless you buy RW CDs, you can't reburn them and it takes so many to hold just one book, a much better and more cost effective "portability option" would be to invest in an inexpensive MP3 player. MP3 players are not all that expensive any more. You can get a halfway decent (and Audible compatible) one for less than $40. ( http://www.amazon.com/SanDisk-Sansa-Clip-Player-Black/dp/B002MAPT7U/ref=pd_cp_e_1 ) They are small, extremely portable and most basic models have around 4 GB of memory, which I would imagine is plenty for an audio book.
Audible lists compatible MP3 players here: http://www.audible.com/dc?mt=MP3
choose the manufacturer. You can also listen to Audible books on a Kindle.
cd's from audible audiobooks
Date: 2013-11-23 12:35 am (UTC)A related problem is how to get my library a copy. The local library system has (to my amazement) 5 copies of Fledgling in h/c. No audio books from L&M. After a promising start Audible was spectacularly unhelpful; "only for personal use. Contact the publisher". AFAIK audible.com *is* the publisher of the audio version, as they recorded it, right? Anyway, stymied on how to get my local library a copy of some of your work. Was going to buy and donate, but no joy. Phooey.
cd's from audible audiobooks
Date: 2013-11-23 12:42 am (UTC)On a closely related topic, my local library system has 5 (!) copies of fledgling in book form, but no Lee & Miller audio books. The library said if I bought and donated something they'd be thrilled. Audible, after a go around, says their material is only for personal use, cannot get a copy for a library. And then they said to contact the publisher (which, I would have thought for the recorded copy was them as they did the voice work...but maybe it's still Baen). Anyway, audible said no way to get copy for my library, sadly. Phooey. If there's another way I'd be interested...happy trails.
Burning Audible Files to disc
Date: 2013-11-25 07:40 pm (UTC)I'm not much into Audio-books myself (can't concentrate on it for more than 5 minutes at a time), but I'm a bit into geeking, so, a bit research (asking a geek friend addicted to audio-books) revealed the following fairly simple way without shackling yourself to something starting with "i" (I know opinions on the evil "i" vary, but I've got theological differences with it ;) ):
Burn it with Nero.
Apparently, versions 7 through 9 can burn Audible books without an issue. If you burn them to Image files (an option in Nero), you store them in disc format on your computer. Then you either burn them to disc or mount them on a virtual drive (Virtual CloneDrive for example).
Using the latter method, you can convert them to mp3 by using one of the plenty disc-to-mp3 converters (Windows Media Player can do it for example. Or Audiograbber.), for your ultimate mp3 enjoyment on any non-audible-compliant mp3 player.
That comes down to these three paths you can take:
Path A: Direct to disc
- Download Audible book
- Open Nero
- Choose to burn an audio-book
- Select the AA File
- Burn it
Path B: Indirect to Disc via Image
- Download Audible book
- Open Nero
- Choose to burn an audio-book
- Select the AA File
- Select the Image Recorder as output device
- Create images
- At any convenient later time: Choose to burn an image to disc
Path C: Convert to mp3
- Download Audible book
- Open Nero
- Choose to burn an audio-book
- Select the AA File
- Select the Image Recorder as output device
- Burn images
- Mount Images on a virtual drive (like Virtual Clonedrive)
- Grab audio-discs and convert to mp3 (using Windows Media Player, Audiograbber or any other such conversion tool)
Cheers,
Bosparan