Short Version:
Is it possible to convert an itunes audiobook to mp3 format, simply? Without spending a ton of money on some kind of converter?
Long, Rambling Version:
I have an Android device (a Samsung Galaxy Tablet), and a laptop running Windows 10. No apple/Mac/i-anything.
I work nights, driving- 7 days a week. Audiobooks are basically what gets my rump out of bed and into the car. Caveat being, there are about a half dozen or so audiobooks that are only available in the UK, that I'm dying to get my hands on.
I'm an Audible US member, and I even tried to sign up for an Audible UK membership, using a (legit) address in London, but when I tried to purchase a couple audiobooks, it wouldn't let me go through. Tried using a proxy, but nothing I tried worked. It recognizes that my payment method is a US based card. Audible doesn't have gift cards, per say, so I can't buy one from the UK store to use, either.
Someone told me that you can, however, buy gift cards for itunes, and that it's relatively simple to set up a UK account from the US, and use the gift cards to shop there. But I don't have anything that would play itunes file formats, hence the need for a conversion to mp3.
I'm desperate to get these books- I've already established with Audible US that they are not a planned release for our region (some are older, some are part's 2 or 3 of a series that the US only released part one of. If it was a matter of patience, I'd just hold out, but it's not likely to happen. I would gladly pay for these audiobooks (I'd be thrilled to, really!), but regional DRM stuff and all...
So this is sort of my last hurrah attempt at getting them- I found people on ebay selling the itunes UK gift cards; they digitally send you the card number, and then I'd just have to create a “UK” itunes account and download the audiobooks- but then I'd need to convert them to mp3.
Whenever I try to google how to do this, I end up on one of a million semi-dodgy “converter” advert pages, offering me free trials and easy conversions and all kind of stuff I don't know if I believe.
I also found multiple threads in which people claim that:
a)an itunes update 11 included a “convert to mp3” tool right in itunes (https://discussions.apple.com/thread/3875287?tstart=0)
b) that there's no way to do it, because they're DRM'd (https://discussions.apple.com/thread/756098?tstart=0), or
c) you can convert some stuff, but not itunes audiobooks
I have no idea which, if any, are correct- and whenever I try to email or engage, itunes support in chat, they tell me to call them, which I refuse to waste my very limited cell phone minutes on, so I'm going nuts (who doesn't let customers email them?!)
Please, someone help me. Tell me if this is possible? Can one convert an itunes audiobook to an mp3 format, and if so, is it something someone who isn't super tech-savvy (such as me), could easily do (other than playing them in real time, and using something like audacity to record them to then convert)?
Any info would be HUGELY appreciated. Thank you!
Is it possible to convert an itunes audiobook to mp3 format, simply? Without spending a ton of money on some kind of converter?
Long, Rambling Version:
I have an Android device (a Samsung Galaxy Tablet), and a laptop running Windows 10. No apple/Mac/i-anything.
I work nights, driving- 7 days a week. Audiobooks are basically what gets my rump out of bed and into the car. Caveat being, there are about a half dozen or so audiobooks that are only available in the UK, that I'm dying to get my hands on.
I'm an Audible US member, and I even tried to sign up for an Audible UK membership, using a (legit) address in London, but when I tried to purchase a couple audiobooks, it wouldn't let me go through. Tried using a proxy, but nothing I tried worked. It recognizes that my payment method is a US based card. Audible doesn't have gift cards, per say, so I can't buy one from the UK store to use, either.
Someone told me that you can, however, buy gift cards for itunes, and that it's relatively simple to set up a UK account from the US, and use the gift cards to shop there. But I don't have anything that would play itunes file formats, hence the need for a conversion to mp3.
I'm desperate to get these books- I've already established with Audible US that they are not a planned release for our region (some are older, some are part's 2 or 3 of a series that the US only released part one of. If it was a matter of patience, I'd just hold out, but it's not likely to happen. I would gladly pay for these audiobooks (I'd be thrilled to, really!), but regional DRM stuff and all...
So this is sort of my last hurrah attempt at getting them- I found people on ebay selling the itunes UK gift cards; they digitally send you the card number, and then I'd just have to create a “UK” itunes account and download the audiobooks- but then I'd need to convert them to mp3.
Whenever I try to google how to do this, I end up on one of a million semi-dodgy “converter” advert pages, offering me free trials and easy conversions and all kind of stuff I don't know if I believe.
I also found multiple threads in which people claim that:
a)an itunes update 11 included a “convert to mp3” tool right in itunes (https://discussions.apple.com/thread/3875287?tstart=0)
b) that there's no way to do it, because they're DRM'd (https://discussions.apple.com/thread/756098?tstart=0), or
c) you can convert some stuff, but not itunes audiobooks
I have no idea which, if any, are correct- and whenever I try to email or engage, itunes support in chat, they tell me to call them, which I refuse to waste my very limited cell phone minutes on, so I'm going nuts (who doesn't let customers email them?!)
Please, someone help me. Tell me if this is possible? Can one convert an itunes audiobook to an mp3 format, and if so, is it something someone who isn't super tech-savvy (such as me), could easily do (other than playing them in real time, and using something like audacity to record them to then convert)?
Any info would be HUGELY appreciated. Thank you!