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Originally Posted by skinmaan
That's the Download Manager.
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OK, but the Audible e-mail talks about Audible Manager, not the Download Manager:
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Our records indicate that in the past, you may have used the Audible Manager software to listen to your titles. In the upcoming weeks, the option to download titles to and listen via this software, will go away.
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And the e-mail specifically is being sent because the recipient has used Audible Manager to LISTEN. It's not saying to every member that you can only DOWNLOAD with the new software.
Additionally, it defies sense that Audible would completely prevent everyone who uses an OS prior to Windows 10 from downloading.
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Even if you don't use WMP, watch what the download manager is actually saying. After the d/l finishes it writes the digital usage rights to your PC. On my PC it says "adding file to Windows Media Player." Even if it doesn't say that it is copying the rights to your PC. This is why if you get a new PC and copy all of the .aax files to your new PC, even after logging into your account with Audible Manager, these files will be useless. You have to re-do the download from Audible for them to work.
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On my PC, the Download Manger says it's adding the book to the Audible Manager. And as I mentioned earlier, sometimes it fails to do that and tells me to add the book myself, or I cancel it because it's taking forever, and I still have no issue with aaxtomp3 converting the file.
Since I delete the aax files after conversion, I haven't ever tried to move them to a different computer.
The few times I've downloaded an Audible book to my phone, I've been able to move it over to my PC to convert--Audible Manager does not get involved in that process. So even if Audible is screwing up direct PC downloads, presumably I'd still be able to do that. I hope.