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Originally Posted by Catlady
I use SoundTaxi. But recently someone recommended a free program for converting Audible enhanced files: aaxtomp3. |
Thanks for that. Really handy little program! I was converting the long way - playing at normal speed in one program and recording in another!
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Originally Posted by FizzyWater
FYI - Unless I've missed something obvious, AAXtoMP3 only works with the "enhanced" Audible downloads. It converts to 64Kbps (which is likely fine). And it's purely in German, although only a couple of clicks, so it's pretty obvious what to do, especially if you look at the screen shots first.
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It's an open source program so I had a look at what it's doing. It's using part of the Audible Manager to decode the file. It then feeds that into another open source program (ffmpeg) to convert into an mp3.
Anyway, I can tell you that it's not restricted to enhanced files as such, it's just that the file dialogue is defaulting to show only .aax files. If you were to type an * in the file box you'd see all files and if you then chose an .aa file it would convert it happily (I tried this with a format 2 file).
It's using the default setting on ffmpeg which tries to match the input - so my enhanced files converted to 64k but the format 2 one, which is low quality, came out at 8k. In both cases the file sizes were similar to the original.
I tweaked it a little to change the labels etc to English so I may go ahead and change the file dialogue too. Although I usually always use the enhanced versions anyway.