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Old 09-20-2013, 01:19 PM   #1034
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Originally Posted by ApK View Post
For the first matter, there is huge difference between the almost instantaneous, automatic, lossless stripping of an ebook, and the hours it can take to convert an audio book, often resulting in a degraded or damaged output, which would take still more time to correct.
For the second matter, you may just need better speakers. Though on the other hand, if you can't tell format 2 from Enhanced, then you might not notice the degradation in the Audible conversions either, so go for it!
On a virtual machine with 4 cores, I can convert four 6-8 hour Format 4 book segments to high quality MP3 in less than 5 minutes with dbPowerAmp. They are converted in parallel, and the output quality is quite acceptable, IMHO. (This is WAY better than some earlier methods I've tried, all of which had pops and other issues. And were s l o w -- essentially real time. )
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