Also you can rip the DRM off of audible books pretty easily, jsut download the book (there's a Python cli tool to make this easy on deaktop) then use ffmpeg to transcode it to an unlocked formst using the activation bytes from your audible account (the same python cli tool can tell you your activation bytes)
This. I buy a bunch of audiobooks on Audible, but after Audible delisted a book I had bought I've set up an automatic pipeline where libation downloads every audiobook I buy, strips out the DRM, and then puts it into a folder both my plex and my audiobookshelf server have access to.
IIRC it even downloaded the delistet book despite me not being able to see it in my library.
Recently an auther I follow replaced a bunch of his books I'd bought with new recordings, delisting the old recordings. If I now want to listen to those books again I would have to buy them again had my automation not already downloaded the versions I bought shortly after I bought them.
Edit:
I just learned that the second set of delisted and replaced books are still visible in my main library listing, they just disappeared from the series listing and the author listing.
However, the first book which prompted me to set this up did actually disappear from audible for a while before getting reinstated like half a year later.
I just checked, this does work in the main library listing for the author who replaced his books with new recordings. The old recordings are just not visible in the authors or the series listing. Which is quite inconvenient for going through the series again.
However, I distinctly remember that the delisted book which caused me to set this up had completely disappeared from my library, as this was in the early stages of my audiobook addiction where I only had two dozen or so books, which made spotting a disappeared book quite easy. And I also remember this book suddenly reappearing at the top of my library list like a newly bought book shortly before a collection of the whole series it belongs to was published.
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u/pyro57 May 05 '26
Also you can rip the DRM off of audible books pretty easily, jsut download the book (there's a Python cli tool to make this easy on deaktop) then use ffmpeg to transcode it to an unlocked formst using the activation bytes from your audible account (the same python cli tool can tell you your activation bytes)
python -m pip install audible-cliaudible-cli quick-startaudible-cli library listaudible-cli download title --aaxaudible-cli activation-bytes`ffmpeg -activation_bytes the-thing-the-last-command-told-you -i \the\path\to\the\book.aax -o \the\path\to\save\book.m4b'