audiobook to mp3

bishop

bishop

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anyone have a good free program what will let me convert audiobooks to mp3's w/o haveing to make a cd and converting it back?

thanks
 
RS250 Chester

RS250 Chester

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There's many programs to rip, such as iTunes, Media Monkey, EAC, Musicmatch. They are all free.

Now if you need to burn back to CD and do not want to lose audio quality, then you need to also make a lossless rip of the audiobook (either in WAV or FLAC format). Otherwise, you can still burn a CD with the MP3 files, it will just be in downgraded quality, as compared to the original file.

I use EAC for all my music and audiobooks. I also make separate MP3 (for playing) and FLAC (for archiving) files. But EAC might be overkill for what you want.
 
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chrdog

chrdog

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bishop said:
anyone have a good free program what will let me convert audiobooks to mp3's w/o haveing to make a cd and converting it back?

thanks
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im guessin, from the way you described what you have to do, that you have "protected" files off of something like iTunes. Theres a two-step process for this (not sure if anyones made an app that doesn it both in one step yet). First youll need a program that removes the security, turning your *.m4p into an *.m4a
this is the only program ive seen that works:
http://www.hymn-project.org/

THEN you need to convert the .m4a's into .mp3's. DBPowerAmp is the most popular one ive seen:
http://www.dbpoweramp.com/dmc.htm

IMO, its less hassle to just burn it and re-rip it. especially since the hymm thing doesnt come with a GUI (didnt used to at least, although i had a batch file to do multiple files at once).
 
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