• Jo Miran@lemmy.mlEnglish
    5·
    8 months ago

    I happily pay for Audible. It is probably the one Amazon service I truly appreciate. That said I think I should have the right to archive the library DRM free given that I have already paid for it. I don’t think this should be considered piracy at all.

    • Ethereal87@beehaw.orgEnglish
      4·
      8 months ago

      If you want to pay for audiobooks, Libro.FM is a DRM free alternative that allows you to easily download your books without any issues that Libation solves for. It also supports local bookstores in your community while not giving more to Amazon. Only a handful of books aren’t available on Libro but it’s been a seamless transition for us. It’s only going to be difficult if you’re one of those folks who returns/refunds audible credits regularly as it’s not easy to do with Libro.

    • conciselyverbose@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      1·
      8 months ago

      I’ve definitely spent way too much and own way too many books, but I’d be nervous that they’re going to ban me if I tried to archive my however many hundred books on there.

      They should absolutely be required to outright allow it though.

    • FluffyPotato@lemm.eeEnglish
      1·
      8 months ago

      Removing DRM and archiving is perfectly legal here in Estonia, only thing that counts as piracy here is distributing copyrighted materials without a license. I’m pretty sure it’s not in the US but check your local laws.

      • Ricky Rigatoni@lemm.eeEnglish
        2·
        8 months ago

        Removing DRM and archiving are also legal in the US but it doesn’t stop the megacorps from getting your internet cut off and suing you into poverty if they find out.

    • Rogers@lemmy.mlEnglish
      1·
      8 months ago

      I doubt they really care, there’s still a way (to my knowledge) to download audiobooks from audible to mp3. You have to dig a bit to find the option from what i remember. This just makes it easier and in chapterized .m4b goodness.

      If anyone is into selfhosting things I recommend audiobookshelf if you want to self host and stream audiobooks. Such a cool project!

    • Mellow@lemmy.worldEnglish
      1·
      8 months ago

      OpenAudible. I strip the DRM from all of my Audible audiobooks and archive them.

      There’s a free way to do it using rainbowcrack but OA is simpler.

  • pelletbucket@lemm.eeEnglish
    2·
    8 months ago

    i use booklibconnect if I want it to automatically do my entire library, and then inAudible for individual books after the fact. does this have a better interface or something? there’s also aaxconverter

  • besbin@lemmy.mlEnglish
    1·
    8 months ago

    Do DeDRM, and yet they host their code on GitHub and have a link directly to PayPal in the README for funding? Are these guys trying to get sued?

  • fenndev@leminal.spaceEnglish
    0·
    8 months ago

    Unrelated, but I would have preferred a stolen, watermarked Getty Images photo rather an an AI-generated one. Fits the pirate vibe better to have blatantly and unabashedly stolen something than to indirectly do so with plausible deniability.

      • antipiratgruppen@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
        1·
        8 months ago

        I’m pretty sure it’s not possible to download lossless files from Spotify

        Any files in lossless formats from Spotify will not actually become magically lossless by converting them to a lossless format, though they will have a bigger size than the lossy mp3/aac/etc… file they were made from.

        Some “Spotify downloaders” actually find the tracks on other sources and download them from there, but I’ve heard that Deemix (or Murglar for Android) with a Deezer ARL is a much better solution.

  • Ricky Rigatoni@lemm.eeEnglish
    0·
    8 months ago

    So if I get the audible subscription will I be able to download any audiobook or will it only work on books I’ve purchased and/or montly adds onto the higher tier sub?

    • Radical Dog@lemmy.worldEnglish
      1·
      8 months ago

      You can download the books you buy with credits, and also anything currently in the Plus catalogue. I’ve found this very helpful as they remove things from the Plus catalog with very short notice periods, so you may not get to finish books you start. (And I remember stuff like how Salman Rushdie books were removed when he was in the news from the assassination attempt. Maybe that was publishers seeing dollar signs not Amazon, idk, but it was gross. Same when Sean Lock died.)