Comments on: How can I convert Audible.com .AA files to MP3 audio files?

By: Pluschap

Pluschap — Sat, 10 Dec 2011 03:14:41 +0000

Thanks to everyone who contributed to this! We bought our grandson a Copy MP3 player for Christmas, and wanted to load it up with some audio books from Audible. OOPS! – Copy doesn’t support Audible

2 minutes on Google to find this solution, half an hour to put the pieces in place, and we are now merrily downloading books and putting them on his MP3 player.

Naturally, I’m one of those anal people who reads ALL the instructions first, so the whole thing was a slam-dunk, thanks to all the advice and details from everyone here. Once again, thank you all.

By: Vijay

Vijay — Wed, 16 Nov 2011 05:37:59 +0000

Thanks very much. This was most helpful. I got Goldwave 5.0.6 (the free version), the needed dlls from dlldump and converted my aa files.

By: omnipanzer

omnipanzer — Wed, 09 Nov 2011 14:59:12 +0000

It boggles my mind that this 5 year old article is the only non “minute to minute” method I could find. I couldn’t even get Switcher to work (although it did try). It works like a charm btw. thank you so very much.

By: J M B

J M B — Sat, 27 Aug 2011 00:07:01 +0000

Thanks for the info. I purchased my first audible book last night and downloaded the CD quality AAX file. Turns out this file will not play in Windows Media Player. I spent hours trying to make it work. Even called them on the phone, and they had no idea.

I wanted to use Media Player because I’m not thrilled about Audible Manager. It makes a change to your Windows Vista visual effects settings that I do not like. Plus it screws up bookmarks when you bookmark while paused which ruins all bookmarks for that chapter.

So, today I downloaded the MP3 quality AA file and lo and behold, that works with WMP. It’s also the only file that will work with Goldwave, AAX won’t work.

So, thanks again for your site.

By: haledyr

haledyr — Thu, 25 Aug 2011 19:26:19 +0000

Thank you very much for this guide! Worked like a charm!

By: Bobbi

Bobbi — Fri, 08 Jul 2011 01:16:14 +0000

This whole site has been SO helpful! Thank you all so much! The directions weren’t flawless, but if *I* could find the 3 missing .dll files and figure out where they go, then *anyone* can! You have all made this incredibly user friendly – and I am so proud of myself!

By: Granticus Maximus

Granticus Maximus — Thu, 07 Jul 2011 18:30:27 +0000

I used this link and the package at the top in the first post. Works Great. !!

http://forums.afterdawn.com/thread_view.cfm/589613#3562882

By: optonnataCera

optonnataCera — Wed, 22 Jun 2011 02:48:41 +0000

just read the thread! great work. wordpress.com

By: Carol

Carol — Wed, 18 May 2011 17:51:54 +0000

Steve #63

Could you please post the settings you used

Thanks

By: Carol

Carol — Thu, 28 Apr 2011 19:22:03 +0000

Does anyone know where I can get a copy of Audible Manager 5.5.0.3. I haven’t had any luck finding it.

Carol

This version may work with my instructions: Audible Manager 3.5:
http://download.audible.com/AM35/CD/AM_CDBurner.exe” rel=”nofollow”>http://download.audible.com/AM35/CD/AM_CDBurner.exe

Please let me know

By: claudia

claudia — Sun, 20 Mar 2011 03:17:40 +0000

Thanks for all the helpful info…if I can figure out how to do this even though it took me a bit (not real technical) anyone can. Nice to be able to listen to my audible books in mp3 now.

By: nick

nick — Fri, 18 Mar 2011 04:44:09 +0000

thank you Chuck Eglinton, great article. It helps me a lot, with your instructions I finally coverted the .aa files (which were got legally, if I have to mention that) to MP3. Now I am able to enjoy Audible anywhere.

By: jerry

jerry — Wed, 05 Jan 2011 05:00:22 +0000

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By: Lin

Lin — Fri, 31 Dec 2010 01:10:54 +0000

Installed GoldWave v. 5.06 from GoldWave website. When opening aa file got message, “This application has failed because MSVCI70.dll was not found.”
Got same message earlier when installing the “Audible Media Player.exe”. Found the dll on the web and copied it to the Windows Media folder, which allowed me to install the Audible Media Player.exe. However, GoldWave is not finding this dll.
Suggestions?
LR

By: steve

steve — Tue, 28 Dec 2010 13:29:33 +0000

Worked beautifully – you can use the autocue feature in goldwave to split the file up into chapters based on pause detection.

Thanks