inAudible VS Plex-Audiobook-Guide

You can use software like Libation, AAX Audio Converter or inAudible to decrypt Audible books.

Libation author here. Libation reads directly from your audible account and downloads/decrypts in one step. No aax, just straight to m4b. There's also a setting to convert to mp3 instead. It cannot take existing aax files and do this. inAudible can target aax files directly but it's getting a bit long in the tooth so it's not as reliable as it used to be. I've never tried aaxtomp3.

Sorry no. You can try inAudible for that but it's rather out of date. Libation gets your encrypted files from audible and decrypts them on the fly. It's against the terms of service/conditions of use regardless, one just happens off line.

As u/JethroMcClintock said, there's inAudible (windows). It hasn't been updated in a long time so it might not work for some users. The people it does work for all seem to love it

If you have the AAX files, you can convert these to MP3s using inaudible. You do need to install the Lame codec for this to work, then it's fairly seamless. The way I look at it, you paid to buy these books, so converting them to MP3 prevents you from losing access to them in situations like this. (There is no difference between these mp3s and any other mp3 file you upload to your audio player).

Installers are here but it's unfortunately quite out of date. It was last updated in 2017 and Audible has since changed most of their catalog to a format which inAudible can no longer decrypt.

TIPP: A great tool to convert audible books into mp3: https://github.com/rmcrackan/inAudible

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.