Removing DRM from WMA files...
 

So I dig Audiobooks, and have downloaded a bunch by just using the "intitle" and "indexof" searches using Google. There are some I want that I cannot find already online, and recently found Overdrive, which lets you DL copies of digital media with your local library card. Overdrive has the ones I want, but they are DRM protected WMA files.

Do any of you have a good safe way of removing the DRM? I don't want to download some freeware virus infected crap, and I would prefer to not pay for any of the removal tools unless I have no other choice. Speaking of which, if you have a paid for tool that you like, please post up, as I'm sure I can find a file somewhere online with the serial number, or receive a PM with a good serial number from some compassionate HTM'er?

If any of you have an interest in Audiobooks(I prefer M4B format for the iPod), I am happy to share.

Craig

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No good can come of reading, Craig, much less listening to someone reading.


Have you hears Tom Baker's rendition of Who in the World is Tom Baker?

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I've not, but will certainly place that on my list.

The ones I am working on now is the Ender Wiggen series in audio.

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Hi there, I use Tunebite, to remove the DRM protection. Also I have heard good reviews of another program named SoundTaxi.
Good luck!

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Orson Scott Card is an Engrish professor at UNCG. I keep meaning to storm his office and demand to buy him lunch, but am unsure how that would fly with an academic.

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Also, Memphis, well played!

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I think I need that. :)

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How do you get them. I've raided the local libraries for all they have and that wasnt much. I'm in my car 2.5-3 hours a day commuting and would like to do somethign useful like listening to an audio book.

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Torrents, bitchtits!

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Check out http://www.overdrive.com/, they are partnering with local libraries to provide digital media downloads. I had been looking for torrents, p2p, and even Google searches for the Ender Wiggen stuff without success. Using Overdrive with my local library gave me first quality copies downloaded through overdrive, right to my pc. Once the files are downloaded, rip off the DRM, and you've got first quality audio books, free of DRM and at no charge.

As an example, the audio book "Ender's Shadow" was not found anywhere, but was on overdrive at my library. Without leaving my house, I DL'ed it through Overdrive, removed the DRM using AnalogWhole (not the best solution, but was free and converted to MP3 in the process), then converted to iPod AudioBook format (using "MP3 to iPod Audio Book Converter", also free), so now it's on my iPod so I can listen during workouts. The importance of converting to the native iPod format, was so that chaptering info would remain intact.

Give him my thanks, but don't tell him I am pirating his work. :)
Sweet, PM a brother a serial, will ya?

Thanks All,

Craig