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I want my Audiobooks, and I want it NOW!

Started by macgasm · 11 months ago

After spending one week with my iPhone I pretty much love a lot more things about it then I hate. Well, I only really seem to hate one thing about it at this point. I ordered some audible audiobooks on my laptop a couple of nights ago. Normally, I’d just drag those [...]



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  • wtl

    11 months ago

    This is the kind of thing you pick up the phone and call Apple about. They may have a workaround. Are you buying your audio books from iTunes or from Audible?
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  • PAS54NL

    11 months ago

    Just burn the audio files to a CD and import that in to the iTunes of your Mac Pro. That should work.
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  • Macancuk

    11 months ago

    Um. You mean lame Audible. Really freaking lame, as that DRM is an Audible issue, not Apple.

    A few months back, Cory Doctorow was on This Week in Tech, which is sponsored by Audible. And he went off on a tear about Audible's DRM. I think it was TWIT 124. Let's see...Here is is: http://aolradio.podcast.aol.com/twit/TWiT0124H.mp3. Comes at about 2/3rds of the way through. OR you can go to twit.tv and listen to it in a bunch of formats, or download via iTunes.

    Right now Apple is getting screwed over by the record companies who are offereing DRM free tunes to Amazon and other non-Apple companies, while Apple is locked into their 128KBS/DRMed music deal for the next little while. I don't think Apple wants DRM, but is willing to use it so as to make the inroads it needs to.
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  • macgasm

    11 months ago

    See, I can transfer it between any apple computer I want, much like iTunes tracks. It plays fine in my iTunes library. The problem isn't really the DRM. The problem is that I'm asked to format my iPhone when I plug it into my laptop. I own them both, and they're both on the same iTunes account. So, my iPhone is preventing me from getting the audio off of my laptop while I was on the road. Not the DRM.

    The DRM sucks, but the DRM isn't really my problem here. The problem is that Apple refuses to let me use my iPhone with multiple computers that I own. :( I'm not sure if I clearly addressed that in the post. lol.

    For a company that markets the AIR to road warriors, I wonder if they assume that people will never purchase a track or audio book while on the road with their AIR and want to transfer it to an iPod at some point. So, it looks like I still mean LAME APPLE... REALLY FREAKIN LAME. heh.

    You should be able to access tracks from multiple iTunes libraries so long as you purchased them with the same account on both machines. Doesn't seem too difficult.
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