OverDrive Media Console - DRM free already?
If you have OverDrive Media Console and are frustrated by the digital rights restrictions, worry not. Whilst trying for hours (in vain) to get a recent title onto my (unsupported) MP3 player, I found that during the transfer process, OverDrive kindly provides a temporary copy of a full-quality DRM-free version of each chapter as it is processing the transfer.
The resulting .WAV files are large, but you can always import these into iTunes and create an AAC version. If you've got iTunes match, you may even find that they are matched in the store, and you are offered 256kbps versions of them.
I've written a little toolette that hangs around and slurps up these files for you into a new folder, see below for the link soon. Simply run this before starting a transfer, and select a destination, and let OverDrive do the rest.
Or you can copy the files yourself - On a Windows client, they appear in your TEMP folder in a random four-digit folder that appears during the transfer.
At least this way you may actually get a chance to listen to the title on your chosen device.
Here you go: http://dl.dropbox.com/u/1508352/DriveOver.exe
The resulting .WAV files are large, but you can always import these into iTunes and create an AAC version. If you've got iTunes match, you may even find that they are matched in the store, and you are offered 256kbps versions of them.
I've written a little toolette that hangs around and slurps up these files for you into a new folder, see below for the link soon. Simply run this before starting a transfer, and select a destination, and let OverDrive do the rest.
Or you can copy the files yourself - On a Windows client, they appear in your TEMP folder in a random four-digit folder that appears during the transfer.
At least this way you may actually get a chance to listen to the title on your chosen device.
Here you go: http://dl.dropbox.com/u/1508352/DriveOver.exe
posted by Squire at 4:25 AM
1 Comments:
Using the most recent version of Overdrive I did something similar:
Select an audio book and click 'Burn'.
Put a blank CD-RW or CD-R in your drive (you won't be using it), check the part/disc/files you want to copy, click 'Options', check 'Test Mode', and select a slow burn speed (the less data the slower you'll want (16x is fine for a full disc).
Click 'okay' and then 'next>'.
After OD finishes 'Preparing' and starts 'Burning' go to .\Documents and Settings\(user name)\Local Settings\Temp (For WinXP anyway.)
Sort the files by Date Modified and you will find files named: T01xx, T02xx, T03xx... (no extension).
Copy them to a different folder, rename as you want (for sorting I suggest removing the last 2 characters) and add .WAV at the end.
When OD is finished, your disc is still unburned, the files will disappear from the Temp folder (which is why you need a slow burn), and you have the raw wave files.
I wouldn't mind seeing DriveOver updated to work with this. Thanks for the heads up on how OD works WBME.
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