chbrown / audible

Audio extraction and chapter splitting from Audible audiobooks

Audible

Audio extraction and chapter splitting from Audible audiobooks.

Like AAXtoMP3 but without the transcoding.

Prerequisites

• ffmpeg

Installation

curl -L https://git.io/audible-sh > /usr/local/bin/audible
chmod +x /usr/local/bin/audible

Instructions

audible --help

Usage: audible --activation-bytes a1b2c3d4 [book1.aax ...] [-h|--help] [-v|--verbose]

Arguments:
  -a, --activation-bytes HEXACODE  Audible activation bytes (8 hexadecimal characters)

Usage

audible -a a1b2c3d4 SomeBook.aax

This will create a new folder like Author - Title in the current directory, then write a series of Chapter N.m4b files inside that folder. In a typical workflow, you'll cd to wherever you store your audiobooks, then call the script using the full .aax filepath.

Obviously, you'll need to replace the a1b2c3d4 with your personal Audible "activation bytes"; to retrieve these...

• ...from your Audible account (easy), use https://github.com/inAudible-NG/audible-activator
• ...from a lone .aax file (harder), use https://github.com/inAudible-NG/tables

License

Copyright © 2018 Christopher Brown. MIT Licensed.