AudiobookHub

Software resources for audiobook management. Especially Audible-centric, including organization and removing DRM from Audible files

Guides

• https://github.com/seanap/Plex-Audiobook-Guide: Plex & Booksonic Audiobook Guide. Put your audiobooks in Plex then use Prologue or BookCamp to stream your whole library. You can even share with your friends and family
• http://checkthebenchmarks.com/2019/09/23/why-you-should-manage-your-own-audible-library/: Manage your own Audible library

Audible APIs

Interfaces for internal Audible API

• https://github.com/mkb79/Audible: A(Sync) Interface for internal Audible API written in pure Python
• https://github.com/rmcrackan/AudibleApi: written in C#. Used internally by Libation (below)
• https://github.com/Mbucari/AAXClean: C# library for working with AAXC files without ffmpeg

Backup, decrypt, convert, organize

• Libation: audible audiobook manager. Download, decrypt, organize, search, and tag. Open-source. GUI and CLI. Windows only
• inAudible: remove Audible DRM, edit files, and convert files. Installers available
• Book Lib Connect: A standalone Audible downloader and decrypter
• AAX Audio Converter: Convert Audible aax files to mp3 and m4a/m4b
• OpenAudible: cross-platform audible audiobook manager (~~free~~, ~~$12~~, ~~$18.95 shareware~~, $18.95)
• Audible Plus Converter: Windows, Mac. $15/quarter, $30/yr, or $60 lifetime
• OSAC: Open Source Audible Converter. Convert audible's proprietary AAX audio files to MP3, AAC/M4B, or FLAC
• AAXtoMP3: Convert Audible's .aax filetype to MP3, FLAC, M4A, or OPUS
• Audible-CLI: A command line interface for the above audible Python API

Scripts to make audible's site more usable

• Audible Statistics Extractor: script to export your Audible library to a spreadsheet
• Audible Special Promo Sale Scraper: generate a list of sale items
• Audible Library Extractor browser extension: automatically generates a searchable gallery by scanning your audible library. If you upload the gallery online, you can share it with others
• Audible library cover downloader: downloads all covers in your Audible library and generates a screensaver web page
• audible wishlist scraper: Fetches your wishlist and outputs it as: html, markdown, plaintext, json, csv

DRM Removal

Behind the scenes, most if not all resources below use these for their heavy lifting (although they aren't the easiest to use directly)

• FFmpeg: A complete, cross-platform solution to record, convert and stream audio and video. Includes the ability to use your activation data to strip DRM from .aax files
• audible-activator: Retrieves your activation data (activation_bytes) from Audible servers
• audible-tools.github.io: free service which resolves audible activation bytes. Nuget pkg. How to use

File editing and manipulation

AudioBookConverter (Code on github): convert. Also advanced chapter support for combining and splitting