Once installed confirm that you’re using “Windows Audio Session” (which means system sound) in iTunes Preferences > Playback > “Play Audio Using”. You’ll only use the Audible Download Manager from this installation you’ll find it in the “AudibleManager” folder in the Start menu. Log in to your Audible account, then click on “ Hi, ! ˅” (on top of the Audible page), and navigate to Account Details > Update Settings, then scroll to the bottom of the page, and clear “ Check for Audible Download Manager” checkbox if it is checked.
Even though this new solution requires a few of more components, it’s more stable and the required components are free/donationware, so you can get accomplish the task for free, or at least at a cost acceptable to you (I recommend pitching in to the Virtual Audio Cable folks for their fine piece of software!) ? I spent a couple of hours figuring out a new solution. It invokes iTunes (which is authorized to play the Audible DRM content) as it should, but for some reason it no longer ‘hears’ what iTunes plays back to it, so the mp3 is never written. I’ve been using Aimersoft’s DRM Media Converter for the task for the last couple of years, but today I found out that it no longer works after a recent Windows update.
But it won’t play the Audible’s DRM-protected files, so somehow I have to get rid of the protection first. So I prefer to use the excellent Listen Audiobook Player on my Android phone (on iOS devices you might consider Bookmobile Audiobook Player). Unless it has changed recently, its bookmarking system is non-existent, and it also couldn’t keep track of multiple books in progress at the same time. I listen to audiobooks a lot, and mostly I buy them from Audible. If it’s a 17 hour book, the conversion takes 17 hours! NOTE: The only way to remove DRM from an Audible audiobook is to play and record it digitally with your computer.
NOTE: The following instructions are for Windows I may later figure out the equivalent on macOS.
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