To cut a long story short I want to load 'Audible' books on to a USB drive. The only way I know is to down load them to a CD and rip them from there. This takes literally hours Is there anyway to drop them straight on to a USB drive?
The only way I know is to down load them to a CD and rip them from there. This takes literally hours
Maybe the OP means he downloads the audio book as an ISO image. In that case he could extract the contents uging IsoBuster, or install a virtual CD drive (I use MagicISO but there are several others) and mount the ISO file on that.
Either way gives fast access to the contents without burning a disc.
that was what he wanted to avoid.Audible is a on line library. I don't know what format they reside in and what if any the drm restrictions are. all I can say is that on downloading a book from my local library, and shoving it into goldwave and saving it out as ogg I seem to have removed the drm completely... Brian
Ah yes, hadn't read it properly, no need to burn to CD just to rip back to MP3 (or whatever), but a better description of the starting format would help ...
What format are you downloading? If its a .iso CD image, then rather than burning a copy and then ripping it, just mount it on a virtual drive like Virtual clone drive:
Audio CDs (if that's what is being referred to here) don't and can't use ISO images. ISO is a copy of the 2048-byte data sectors on the CD. CD sectors are actually 2352 bytes long. On a data CD the remaining bytes are used for error correction behind the scenes. Audio CDs don't have error correction, so the data is 2352 bytes per sector and if you get errors, tough. That means you need different tools and read/write commands to access the audio tracks of a CD compared with the data track(s) (a disc can have both).
drive emulator that supports audio. There's one mentioned here:
formatting link
as playable by modern DVD etc players are something else
- in which case you just copy them off onto a USB stick. Any disc emulator should do.
Yes but most rewritables only record at x4 so this could take a while. You don't want to be using up a write once every time. Did I not see some talk of ramsticks that look like an external cd to the software at some time in the past. the snag then of course is that they probably don't work on other devices. Brian
Just to expand though thanks to Adrian I may have an answer.
I buy 'Audible' (note the parenthesis) books to listen to when driving, gar= dening etc.
Up until recently the only device that communicated properly with the 'Audi= ble' software was an Apple one. Other than that I had to download the books= . Transfer them onto CDs, up to 7 per book, and them upload them from the C= Ds and on to a non Apple player. Tedious.
My new car allows me to upload music from a thumb drive to its internal mem= ory. It doesn't recognise the iTunes format. I want to download the books t= o a thumb drive bypassing the CD route.
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