OpenAudible
An open source desktop application for downloading and managing your Audible audiobooks.
Latest Release
Download installers for Windows, Mac and Linux.
More information is available at the project home page openaudible.org.
Note: Due to various constraints, the posted github version may be behind the currently posted binary.
Features
- Import audible books from your account
- Convert to mp3 with all tags
- Import (or Drag and drop) aax files directly into the app
- Display all your books in searchable UI
- Export web page/javascript file with all your books
Screenshot
Windows User Interface
Building
OpenAudible is a java application that uses Maven for building.
Prerequisites
Java 8, Maven, and git. Windows, Mac or Linux Desktop.
Clone the git repo
git clone https://github.com/openaudible/openaudible.git
Build using Intellij
Import Project:
Select the openaudible/pom.xml file
Click through all of the defaults
Build using Eclipse
Import... Maven Project
Select the openaudible directory
Build from command line (requires maven, java 8 SDK)
cd openaudible
mvn compile
mvn package
Running/Debugging
Your IDE should link the platform specific SWT library via the maven profile. SWT is the eclipse widget library, used by Eclipse IDE and other apps. It has a jar file for each platform mac, win64, and linux.
IntelliJ
Select menu Run: Debug...
Select Edit Configurations...
Add Application
Name: OpenAudible
Main Class: org.openaudible.desktop.Application
VM options: -ea
Mac VM options: -ea -XstartOnFirstThread
Click Debug button
Windows Command Line
java -cp "target\openaudible-jar-with-dependencies.jar;swt\org.eclipse.swt.win32.win32.x86_64-4.6.jar" org.openaudible.desktop.Application
Mac Command Line
java -XstartOnFirstThread -cp "./target/openaudible-jar-with-dependencies.jar:./swt/org.eclipse.swt.cocoa.macosx.x86_64-4.6.jar" org.openaudible.desktop.Application
Notice on Mac, the -XstartOnFirstThread is required to run SWT apps.
Linux Command Line
java -cp "target/openaudible-jar-with-dependencies.jar:swt/org.eclipse.swt.gtk.linux.x86_64-4.6.jar" org.openaudible.desktop.Application
Notes
Running with -ea to alert you of assertion failures is recommended for debugging. We use "asserts" to help identify problems.
Enter that into the VM Arguments on your debugger/run dialog if using an IDE.
You should see the user interface. You may see an error, or a warning about where you can go to preferences and enter your audible account details.
Open the Preferences from the Edit Menu.
Enter your audible user name (email) and password.
Before logging in with the application, go to the Controls: Browser menu and log into your audible account.
This is only required if logging in fails or if the browser cookies expire.
The application will use cookies to expedite logging in-- and bypassing some of the "are you a human" checks.
Errors are logged to the console window, under the File menu.
Some effort was made to separate the SWT GUI from the core code, which can be used in other projects or using another front end. Maybe someone wants to port the app to Swing or Electron.
Built With
- Eclipse SWT - Standard Widget Toolkit
- HTML Unit - HTML web page scraping
- InAudible-NG - Decode
Contributing
While stable, OpenAudible is always looking for improvements, testing and bug reporting for all platforms. Community support of all kinds is essential and greatly appreciated.
- Donation of an Open Source code signing certificate would be nice.
- Exporting to a podcast format is being considered
- Testing and feedback with regions is needed
- Exporting to a format that supports the best mobile and linux audio book players is the goal.
- Are chapters working well in your favorite audio book player?
- UI improvement ideas welcome, especially for Linux.
- The in-app help documentation is not great and ugly.
- Support for multiple audible accounts would be nice
Please feel free to submit issues and pull requests.
Versioning
We use SemVer for versioning. For the versions available, see the tags on this repository.
Rebased on 1/26/2018 with version 0.9.2
Authors
See the list of contributors who participated in this project.
License
This project is licensed under the Apache 2.0 License - see the LICENSE.md file for details, but may uses code licensed by other licenses.
Please use responsibly on content you are legally authorized to access.