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[–] MaggiWuerze@feddit.org 82 points 1 day ago (3 children)

Shoutout to Libation, that allows you to download and deDRM your Audible library.

https://github.com/rmcrackan/Libation

[–] roofuskit@lemmy.world 13 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (4 children)

Oooooo, but there be dragons.

Documentation? Yer lookin' at it This is a single-developer personal passion project. Support, response, updates, enhancements, bug fixes etc are as my free time allows I have a full-time job, a life, and a finite attention span. Therefore a lot of time can potentially go by with no improvements of any kind

[–] IsoSpandy@lemm.ee 24 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Actually good for the developer. He is doing it out of his passion and faith in OSS. What more should we want of him? The dude is already a hero.

[–] roofuskit@lemmy.world 2 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

It's just a warning not to get into it unless you're capable of helping yourself.

[–] catloaf@lemm.ee 4 points 20 hours ago (2 children)

That's true of all self-hosting.

[–] gdog05@lemmy.world 1 points 9 hours ago

In my experience, that's just true of all software. There's a couple of high end InDesign plugins I use for work. Aside from that, I'm on my own.

[–] roofuskit@lemmy.world 4 points 19 hours ago* (last edited 19 hours ago)

De-DRMing audible audio books and self hosting are not inextricably linked. I just wanted to repost it to make sure people saw it before diving in.

The origins of the phrase "here be dragons" is one of placing a warning of caution on an unexplored area of the map. It says nothing negative about the developer.

[–] tempest@lemmy.ca 28 points 1 day ago

It's good they put it up front though. There can be a lot of entitlement with oss users sometimes and setting expectations can help alleviate that.

[–] MaggiWuerze@feddit.org 8 points 1 day ago

You don't really need much documentation. You set it up on windows once, which is pretty intuitive and then you copy the config to your server and run it headless. It pulls your library in fixed intervals. I haven't touched it once in the year it is running now

[–] TheKingBee@lemmy.world 7 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

It works now, even if later he gets tired of it and walks away it still works now.

[–] roofuskit@lemmy.world 4 points 1 day ago

I actually used a Windows app, de audible I think to get all mine out years ago. But I am always glad to see alternatives.

[–] Bacano@lemmy.world 4 points 1 day ago

Thank you for this