AudibleExtract

1. Download the AAX
   1. OpenAudible will do the trick, no need to register, just use it to pull the AAX onto disk.
   2. https://openaudible.org/
   3. /usr/local/bin/OpenAudible
2. Extract the Activation Bytes
   1. This is the webapp: https://github.com/audible-tools/audible-tools.github.io
   2. Hosted version here: https://audible-converter.ml/
3. Run AAXtoMP3
   1. https://github.com/KrumpetPirate/AAXtoMP3.git
   2. /home/bob/projects/archive/AAXtoMP3/

./AAXtoMP3 --authcode bf74ee09 ~/OpenAudible/aax/Space\ Team.2.AAX

Now you can rename your files, structure the directories however you want, use whatever player you like, no longer shackled to the tiny, poorly developed window that one megacorp has convinced congress that the law should force you to accept even after you have satisfied First Sale.

Renaming

List books for a given author:

find Audiobook/ -type f | ./bin/rename.pl  | grep Shirtaloon | more

Make updates to the map in rename.pl

Run rename:

find Audiobook/ -type f | ./bin/rename.pl  | grep Shirtaloon | grep -v 'm3u' | sh

more

Player I like: https://f-droid.org/en/packages/souch.smp/

book audiobook mp3 audible

Setup

# Welcome to OpenAudible!
# To get started quickly, there is a quick setup guide in the documentation (type F1).
# Your audio output encoding is set to M4B which can be changed in the Edit > Preferences...
# Your library location is set to /home/bob/OpenAudible which can be changed with File> Manage Libraries.
# To sync with Audible, select the menu Controls: Connect to Audible. Thank you for trying OpenAudible!