How can I play back Audible audio books in Linux?
Thanks to wine, the Audible PC software installs and works perfectly to playback Audible content.
Sorry for the odd shaped screenshots. This is from my netbook. :)
First, make sure you have wine installed:
sudo apt-get install wine
1. Find and download the Audible Manager Windows PC software from audible.com:
2. Install it with wine:
3. In the program preferences, choose ‘Audible Desktop Player’ for audio playback.
4. Download some Audible content from your audible.com account, and import it into the program.
5. Play! You may be prompted for your audible.com login to authorize playback.
Sweet!
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Well can play the audio but it keeps skipping :\. Its only using 8% CPU so doubt its a problem with being to slow.
+1!!!
Thanks for this, I’ve only used wine a couple times… and with limited success… I hadn’t even considered even trying wine with Audible Manager… This works as well as the Audible Manager can (which isn’t great, but at least I can listen on my desktops now!!! =)
Scott,
Thanks for posting this! It works perfectly to play Audible recordings on my computer. However, I am still having trouble loading the books onto my mp3 player. I have an old Creative Zen Muvo player. Creative players are recognized by Audible Manager, and I am still able to load Audible recordings onto it in Windows. I have added my device to Audible Manager in Linux, but Audible Manager does not recognize the device when it is plugged into the computer, and I am unable to activate it. Audible Manager also does not come up as one of the program options for opening my device when I first plug it in. Do you have any suggestions for this? Audible is the last program for which I am keeping Windows installed in a partition on my computer.
Many thanks,
Heidi
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I’m in the same boat as heidi. I dont use wine, so I’d rather not go through the trouble unless I know it’ll work with my Sandisk Sansa Clip. Anyone have feedback on using Audible manager via WINE with an mp3 player (esp the Clip)???
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Thanks! Works great on Debian!
Wine is a last-resort workaround in general, but it is never (rarely?) a “good” user experience. It’s something to use if you have to, and the teams supporting it work very hard to make it the best possible translation layer, but to support an entire subscription service for which you pay per month or per unit of consumption (games/e-books/music downloads/etc)? Dubious, at best.