I've found that it's best to run Audible Manager as an administrator; otherwise I was getting the red-x'd files with the current version of it.
When I first became an Audible member, I tried the burn-to-CD then rip-it-to-MP3, and it worked but it just took way too many discs to make it worth bothering with. I've got a program that will convert the Audible format to MP3, but with a Vista computer it's a 1:1 transfer rate so that takes hours and hours, depending on the size of the audiobook.
I now just download the Audible files to my Sansa Fuze MP3 player and either listen to the audiobooks via headphones, or else in my car using a line input plug.
If I want the book in MP3 format, I'll buy it on sale at Audibookstand.com in CD format and rip that. Or else I'll buy a used audiobook CD and rip that.
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