Current Audiobook Specials

[AnemicOak]

Originally Posted by wawasteele

The best I can figure out is that I used two credits in December on the BOGO sale so that was four books purchased with credits, even though it was only two credits.

If so I hope I get one too. I bought six books from that sale.

[tubemonkey]

Audible - the following offer has been extended for a week

• SALE - 3 Mo for $0.95/mo - exp 10 Jan - cancel by 20 Mar ~ 09 Apr --> details

[sharphamster]

Originally Posted by xendula

What software do you use for that?

Aimersoft - and it's really slow. I does the job, but it seems like the play length and conversion time are pretty close.

I think I'll try a virtual CD burner, since Audible books are burnable according to their faq.

[pidgeon92]

Originally Posted by sharphamster

Aimersoft - and it's really slow. I does the job, but it seems like the play length and conversion time are pretty close.

I use NoteBurner Audiobook Converter on my iMac. A 10 hour book takes about an hour and a half to convert. Aimersoft probably has some conversion settings you can tweak to make the conversion quicker.

[silverraven]

I have heard of people using dbPoweramp. I've never used it, but I have heard it is very very fast. Like 10 minutes fast.
I have used iTunes in combination with Audials One. It is basically the virtual CD drive method, but not too slow. Since I already owned Audials One, I can't complain, it does the job.
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[tlaine]

As someone else mentioned, Sound Taxi works quite well.

[tubemonkey]

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[hwlester]

Originally Posted by silverraven

I have heard of people using dbPoweramp. I've never used it, but I have heard it is very very fast. Like 10 minutes fast.
I have used iTunes in combination with Audials One. It is basically the virtual CD drive method, but not too slow. Since I already owned Audials One, I can't complain, it does the job.
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I've used dbPoweramp both for ripping CD's and converting from one format to another. I liked it and bought the PowerPack (which is now called Reference or something).

[Laurablue]

Heads up for anyone who has free audiobooks from the SYNC summer giveaways. The latest Overdrive update for Apple devices will remove the SYNC titles from your library, and they can't be restored. This is the report from SYNC's own website.

http://www.audiobooksync.com/2013/10...n-ios7-update/

[tubemonkey]

Originally Posted by Laurablue

Heads up for anyone who has free audiobooks from the SYNC summer giveaways. The latest Overdrive update for Apple devices will remove the SYNC titles from your library, and they can't be restored. This is the report from SYNC's own website.

http://www.audiobooksync.com/2013/10...n-ios7-update/

Wow! ...and thanks for this heads up

This happened three months ago and I was totally unaware of it. What a shame. It's been awhile since I last visited their website. This will be linked in the OP.

Attention Everyone

This is yet another reason why titles you own should be liberated. Look at the recent posts in this thread to see which programs others use to convert their audiobooks to files that don't rely upon third party software for playback.


Besides that shocking news, it appears that they plan to announce this year's program later this month, instead of a planned April announcement.

Happy Holidays all!
The SYNC team is working hard on the Summer 2014 list. It’s looking to be an incredible list. Look for pairings in late January

With that in mind, it's time to start a new thread for 2014 and to revive the Sync section in the OP. Here's hoping that this year's program will be expanded with more selections than last year.

[tubemonkey]

I've started the new thread for Sync 2014. Discussion concerning the iOS 7 fiasco can occur here or there. It doesn't matter to me.

• SYNC - Free Audiobooks for Summer 2014

[AnemicOak]

Originally Posted by tlaine

As someone else mentioned, Sound Taxi works quite well.

That's what I'm using right now, however for .aax files it'll only do one at a time at 1X speed so it takes a long time. IIRC it'll do .aa files a bit faster or/and do multiple files at a time, unfortunately all of my downloads are .aax and I don't know that I want to re-download 700+ books in the lower quality format to convert.

[tlaine]

Originally Posted by AnemicOak

however for .aax files it'll only do one at a time at 1X speed so it takes a long time. IIRC it'll do .aa files a bit faster or/and do multiple files at a time

Yes, you're right on the enhanced being only 1 at a time. I use the type 4 .aa files and they're fine for me; it'll do multiples, 16 at a time. Although if you're caught up with them and only doing one every so often, it wouldn't be too bad.

[AnemicOak]

Originally Posted by tlaine

Although if you're caught up with them and only doing one every so often, it wouldn't be too bad.

Yes. My goal this year is to get DRM-free copies of all my stuff done and then it'll be relatively easy to keep on top of things.

[ApK]

Originally Posted by AnemicOak

Yes. My goal this year is to get DRM-free copies of all my stuff done and then it'll be relatively easy to keep on top of things.

It's kind of funny. Looking for the ability to strip DRM is pretty much what brought me here to MR originally, but I had stopped going out of my way to make sure everything I had was stripped, because it had never posed a problem, and it's been too darn convieient to just use the native apps on the various devices.
Now I guess I'd better catch myself up, too.
Seems every now and then some outfit will do something stupid, threatening legitimate access, reminding us why DRM is bad.

ApK