audible-activator VS Plex-Audiobook-Guide

Both apps require you to have audiobooks as files and download them in an accessible format. If you have audible audiobooks, you need to convert those to an open format first using something like AAX2MP3 + audible-activator

i convert ALL my audible files to M4B using ffmpeg. using this command line: "ffmpeg -activation_bytes xxx -i ab.aax -vn -c:a copy output.m4a", where xxx is your audible auth code. you can get your auth code by using https://github.com/inAudible-NG/audible-activator. i download the aax files on my pc from the audible website. work great every time.

I would encourage users not to use OpenAudible as they tend to engage in shady practices. They've stolen code from the original inAudible project and then released it as a closed-source commercial project. Users have complained about losing access to OpenAudible after upgrading: OpenAudible v3.3 upgrade warning/alert

You can use https://github.com/inAudible-NG/audible-activator, which is what OpenAudible supposedly stole their code from. And to convert the aax files you can use https://github.com/KrumpetPirate/AAXtoMP3.

It worth noting the OpenAudible folks “stole” the IP from the open source project audible-activator and have used it in their paid software.

https://github.com/inAudible-NG/audible-activator https://sourceforge.net/projects/aaxtomp3/

inaudible.

https://github.com/inAudible-NG/audible-activator

But had success using:

Here is a resource that you will find useful for audiobooks. I love your old-time radio idea, I look forward to hearing what people suggest for that because I am totally stealing your idea lol.

I'd probably just bite the bullet and update the tags on everything. I've always just adhered to /u/seanap and followed their guide: https://github.com/seanap/Plex-Audiobook-Guide

Prologue for iOS is a Plex audiobook player that is better than any audiobook player has a right to be.

Here's a good guide on how to set up Plex for proper metadata with audiobooks: https://github.com/seanap/Plex-Audiobook-Guide

Depending exactly what you're trying to do mp3tag is a great tool for just managing metadata directly. The Plex Audiobook Guide has some handy tools for mp3tag that allow you to download info directly from audible.

This is the way: https://github.com/seanap/Plex-Audiobook-Guide

There's a whole guide to getting it properly set up here.

Just to throw this out there though for anyone who might be interested in self-hosting their secret project audiobooks and others, to look at Audiobook Shelf. /r/audiobookshelf (what i'm doing) or set up plex to handle audiobooks (as best as it can) and use one of the players listed on that site, probably Chronicle on Android or Prologue for iOS.