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Converting Audible (.aa) Files: No Searching Involved
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jangell2
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26. June 2008 @ 16:54 |
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Originally posted by audibler:
I forgot to include my email! It's audible at hush dot com. Pleease, don't spam me... :o)
Originally posted by jangell2:
Originally posted by audibler:
I wanted to point out the huge difference between me and the previous speaker.
Question: who is the previous speaker?
Hey! Did you try rename.pl? It's worth it. I can show you how -- paste here a few file names and for each, how you wish to rename it. I'll show you a command for each transformation...
I waited a couple of days to see if you would answer my question and you didn't. Since I'm the one who has been most outspoken against your scheme, I'm going to assume you were referring to me when you wrote the following:
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I wanted to point out the huge difference between me and the previous speaker. I don't go around BT trackers pirating movies and music and stuff -- he does. I create, he only consumes. I fight DRM because of ethical reasons. He doesn't stand for anything but himself. He steals content off P2P daily, yet here he stands calling my thing stealing. How absurd is that? The reason is he's too envious and pissed off to see, poor angry simpleton...
I have only made comments based on what you have posted here. I have not made accusations made up out of thin air. You don't know me, obviously. I do not use BT to pirate movies, never have. Nor music and stuff. I don't use P2P to steal daily nor weekly nor yearly. You don't know me, you don't know what I do, and yet you spout off these lies.
"You Create?" Yeah, right. You have created a system by which you end up with a copy of a book you did not pay for. I believe when a merchant provides a product of value, they should be compensated for it. In your system, two people end up with the book, and only one of them paid for it. My audible books have been paid for.
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Copyright infringement is something else. Like if you wrote a book and then I would steal and publish it, saying I wrote it. What I was talking about is the electronic equivalent of borrowing a book (and possibly scanning a copy) -- commonplace like 10 years ago. This is the exact same thing, although our corporate lobby-driven "digital millennium governments" would like to have us believe otherwise.
Once again, you prove you don't understand what copyright infringement is. You seem to think that making a xerox copy of a book is legal. It's not. It may have been common for you to do, that doesn't make it legal. BTW, when you did this, did you use your own xerox or were you using your employer's machine, and his supplies, and his paper? This is not borrowing a book either. When a book is borrowed, only one person has it, only one person can read it. The lender of the book cannot read it until it is returned. If you have borrowed a book and make a copy, that is copyright infringement. Just because something is a common practice, does not mean it is legal.
I found the following quotes from two books, "Memoirs of an Invisible Man", and "I Am Legend" in that order.
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All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced or transmitted in any form, or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying, recording or by any information storage and retrieval system, with the written permission of the Publisher, except where permitted by law.
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All rights reserved, including the right to reproduce this book, or portions thereof, in any form.
Clearly, photocopying a book is not legal, it is copyright infringement, but you don't think so.
Please get your facts straight and stop writing your libelous statements.
johnny
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ut1880h
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2. July 2008 @ 13:22 |
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Originally posted by audibler:
Originally posted by ut1880h:
A better batch file renamer is "RenameMaster" - hands down...
But you really don't have a clue, do you. You never used rename.pl and you don't know what regular expressions are. There is literally no limit to how you can transform text using regual expressions. Why? Because regular expressions are a full-featured programming language. What you present here is the compromise I was talking about - you lose practically all the functionality, but get a pretty GUI interface. Rename Master is not even compromise, it so debilitatingly primitive that I can without fear of wrongdoing say: the worse piece of shit is "RenameMaster" - hands down...
I ROFL knowing how absolutely incomprehensible this probably is for you. Rename.pl is a text file, effectively 40 lines long, whereas RenameMaster is a big-assed application with an installer. Yet, rename.pl is limited only by the potential of your mind and RenameMaster can only do a few fixed manipulations somebody else thought of when (wasting time) programming it. :))
Actually, recommending to the general public running a Pearl script from the command line, requiring the rememberence of fairly cumbersome syntax vs. the simple graphical interface of RenameMaster that, among many other features, gives you a nice preview of your changes before committing them reveals the nature of your little act.
For example (from the script code):
To rename all files matching C<*.bak> to strip the extension,
you might say
rename 's/\.bak$//' *.bak
To translate uppercase names to lower, you'd use
rename 'y/A-Z/a-z/' *
I'm sure the average Joe is really going to love and appreciate having to screw with that kind of primitive syntactic crap for their every rename task! In case you haven't noticed, most PC users really don't want to have to fk with command-line syntax - duhhh. Otherwise, we'd still all be running DOS.
As far as RenameMaster being a "big-assed application with an installer" as you put it, first of all there's no installer. (Hmmm... Speaking of not even trying the app...) Secondly, the application is only 1 Mb with no dlls or other files except a 2Kb .ini file that it creates! You just double click the exe or create a shortcut to it. Real complicated! Size-wise, 1 Mb hardly qualifies as "big-assed application" unless you're still trying to run a 286 (which wouldn't surprise me). All this seems to indicate that you're just another jabber-mouth with nothing better to do than show your ass on web forums.
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dave562
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20. July 2008 @ 19:16 |
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Thank You LinkVoid,
I have been looking for about a year to find a quick and easy way to convert my .aa files to wma so I can play them on my Zune. I tried them all. dbpoweramp, graphedit, notecable etc. TuneBite was the easiest but only converts at real time and requires iTunes...which I don't care for. A 10 hour book took 10 hours to convert. Yeack!
I FINALLY stumbled across your post and download the kit.
IT works Great. Vista Home Premium SP3, Media Player 11, ADM 6.5.0.3. I now convert a 10 hour book in less than 5 min. You have made it so simple.
Of course, now that Microsoft has bought Audible and Amazon it might be a moot point. As of the end of the year they say .aa files will play on Zune. But I would much rather have a converted file that can play n virtually ANY player.
Thank you soooooo much. You're the greatest.
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bratcher
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21. July 2008 @ 02:02 |
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I didn't know that Microsoft bought Audible & Amazon....
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jangell2
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21. July 2008 @ 11:27 |
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Actually, I think Amazon bought Audible. I don't believe Microsoft is involved with either.
Amazon Buys Audible
johnny
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dave562
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21. July 2008 @ 15:27 |
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You guys are right. I double checked and I was wrong. Microsoft did not buy Audible or AMazon. Sorry about that. It's hard to tell what is true or false that I read out there on the internet. My sincerest apologies.
From what I can tell Amazon did indeed buy Audible. Microsoft has entered into a partnership with Audible/Amazon and will produce a Zune codec for there .aa format to play on the Zune.
Sorry for the confusion.
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jadoglio
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3. August 2008 @ 12:38 |
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Does anyone know what file the Audible Media Converter installs and where it pus them? I could really use the locations. I am having trouble installing it and I think it is realted to a file or folder with the wrong pernissions et and I need th change them.
Thanks
JADO
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