I’m looking to avoid burning up a ton of cd’s and ripping them back onto itunes as mp3s–what are the options for avoiding this expensive and time wasting effort? Audible.com does not have readable files for us. Thank you for any help that comes this way.
Have you searched this site (& Audible’s site) for tips? The Clip/Clip+ are both supposed to be able to play audible files. I don’t use Audible personally, but I’ve heard from people here who do.
I spoke with Audible’s help line and they said there’s nothing available for Sansa users and the conversion software I found here and elswhere cost more than I’d like to spend though not enough to make me consider an i pod!
Thank you for the answers but I failed to mention I have a mac so my audible.com files are downloaded into an itune format of a protected aac file which is unreadable with my Sansa. I can burn an audio CD and rip it back into itunes without the drm to use it on the Clip but this requires 5+ cd per book.
I can find the files on my mac “mainframe” desktop and drag/drop them in their aac format but they remain unrecognized by my Sansa. I wonder if Audacity with the lame mp3 encoder plugin would do what I need?
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I can find the files on my mac “mainframe” desktop and drag/drop them in their aac format but they remain unrecognized by my Sansa. I wonder if Audacity with the lame mp3 encoder plugin would do what I need?
I’m not sure if any encoding program would convert a DRM-containing file like those…have you considered re-writable CD’s though? Presumably you could wipe and re-use them so you wouldn’t need to buy very many.
If you upgrade to Quicktime Pro (don’t remember how much, but not a lot) you can open the file and then export in a choice of formats though not MP3. If you want an MP3 then open and resave from something like “Audacity” (Free). You just use Quicktime not iTunes.
Should have made clear that my answer only refers to Macs as that is all I use. The first step is always via the Quicktime Pro player and then you can use Audacity if the formats exported from Quicktime aren’t the ones you want.
The question in my mind is, will this work with DRM’ed files?
Don’t know about files from Audible but it worked for me with Apple’s .m4b format on an Audio book that was otherwise impossible to convert due to the protection built in. I was able to convert to mp3 and load on my Clip+.
