Computer experts please

e. The only way I know is to down load them to a CD and rip them from there= . This takes literally hours

Plug it into the computer and copy them over?

Jonathan

You can try

The only way I know is to down load them to a CD and rip them from there. This takes literally hours

It would help if you gave more details about exactly what you are downloading (source/format?), how you do it, and what tools you use.

Yes, certainly.

Even if you go via an (audio?) CD, they can be ripped at many times the normal playback speed on any modern 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 ...

Pretty sure Linux can mount a .iso file and understand what's inside it pretty simply.

thats the magic of free invisible cryptocracker libraries that simply know that you want the contents, not the wrapper.

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:

(their other products are paid for/trialware but the virtual drive is a freebe)

The AnyCD / DVD product is also worth paying for - there seems to be no free equivalent for that.

As stated, Audible.

MBQ

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:

- in which case you just copy them off onto a USB stick. Any disc emulator should do.

Theo

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

OK are these iso images by any chance? If they are I'm sure Ive seen virtual cd emulation software around.

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.

That is the way to go I imagine, which was why I asked about the format. Lots of folk here have not apparently heard of audible.

Brian

I will repeat what I said

So they can JFGI!

MBQ