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On Wed, Dec 26, 2012 at 12:20:21PM +0000, Gordon Henderson wrote: > > So after the mp3 player (Sandisk clip thing) success comes a minor > irritation... It claims to be audio book cpmatible (.aa file foemat) > however it's not. Well, not directly. > > So wifey goes and buys a couple of audio books, copies to them to > player and it doesn't play them. > > Turns out you need to run Sandisks magical application under Windows > to copy the files to the device, so who knows what it's doing - > presumably somehow locking the DRMd file to the device so you can't > play it elsewhere... Or something. > > Anynoe know a way to un-DRM those files and turn them into normal > audio files? It's somewhat annoying. > I seem to recall that VLC can convert, perhaps with the www.debian-multimedia.org sources.list, but cannot find a reference on the web I get close eg http://www.vlc-video.com/aac http://www.ehow.com/how_5103828_play-ma-file.html -- Henry Communication not signed with an original manual signature or an appropriately verified digital signature is not binding. Digital Key Signature: GPG RSA 0xFB447AA1 or 0x3184D537 Smime Fingerprint 98:24:AE:F7:D1:D6:E5:A0:F0:55:2F:40:42:5F:46:24:F9:52:f4:30 Wed Dec 26 13:40:32 GMT 2012 -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/listfaq