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Questions tagged [audiobooks]

Audiobooks are physical books that are recorded so that you can listen to a book and take it with you.

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How to listen to Audible files?

Does anyone know of any software or solution I can use to listen to Audible audiobook files in Ubuntu? I'd rather not have to use Wine but I'm just wondering what other people have come up with.
wajiw
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How can I import audiobooks as audiobooks (not music)?

I have some audiobooks in my Audiobooks folder (~/Audiobooks). When importing them I follow this process: I click Audiobooks in the left hand pane. I right click on Audiobooks and click 'Import Media...' I choose to import from folders then go into…
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How do I convert audiobooks from mp3 to m4b?

I've moved from Windows to Ubuntu and I have problems converting my new books (in mp3) to m4b. There are a lot of Windows applications which could do that, but what about Ubuntu?
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Recommendation of device+software to listen to audible.com audiobook

I use Ubuntu 12.10 and I am searching for some way to easily, and legally listen to audible.com audiobooks in an external device. I have an 2008 second generation iPod shuffle (which I gained as a gift, before converting to Linux) and I am having a…
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music player with audiobook support

Hello I'm looking for a nice audio player with audio-book and network support. I know banshee has that but i rather use something that isn't coded in mono. Another no no is KDE programs, Qt is fine but not a program that was especially developed for…
Kempe
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How to batch change a file extention

I have a bunch of mp3 files that I would like to change the extension of into m4bs, in the terminal for audiobooks. I want to convert/change the name of each indivicual mp3. I am pretty sure I can just change the file extensino and it would be work.…
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Help needed to access Audiobooks

Hi i use audible on my mobile devices - is there a way of listening to audible on ubuntu. i have 18.04.3 lts installed. Ihave tried downloading audiobook downloader etc. but it will not launch. I cannot find any up to date info and also, audible web…
John Vickers
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