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On Wed, 26 Dec 2012, Henry Bremridge wrote:
On Wed, Dec 26, 2012 at 12:20:21PM +0000, Gordon Henderson wrote:So after the mp3 player (Sandisk clip thing) success comes a minor irritation... It claims to be audio book cpmatible (.aa file foemat) however it's not. Well, not directly. So wifey goes and buys a couple of audio books, copies to them to player and it doesn't play them. Turns out you need to run Sandisks magical application under Windows to copy the files to the device, so who knows what it's doing - presumably somehow locking the DRMd file to the device so you can't play it elsewhere... Or something. Anynoe know a way to un-DRM those files and turn them into normal audio files? It's somewhat annoying.I seem to recall that VLC can convert, perhaps with the www.debian-multimedia.org sources.list, but cannot find a reference on the web I get close eg http://www.vlc-video.com/aac http://www.ehow.com/how_5103828_play-ma-file.html
Thee are .aa files. Appears to be 'standard' (aka monopoly) for Audio Book file formats.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Audible.com Gordon -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/listfaq