If you buy stuff from Audible, you’ll find it comes in the .aa format. The largest downside to Audible’s format is I cannot edit out the David Sedaris from my This American
Life collection. I found a forum post which I will reproduce here for posterity:
There exists no clear guide to add audible support to dbpoweramp, here is what I did:
1) Install dbpoweramp and the dbPowerAmp DirectShow plugin. When the install completes replace “.xyz” in the text file with “.aa” and save it.
2) Install AudibleManager AND Windows Media Player Filter (bottom of download page):http://www.audible.com/software
3) Run dBpowerAMP Configuration:
Start >> Programs >> dBpowerAMP Music Converter >> Configuration >> dMC Configuration (this step reads the config you edited in step 1)
That is it, dbpoweramp can read audible files and Sveta Portable audio can upload Audible files to portables that support it.
Now I’ll be able to do all of the stuff I want to my TAL collection.
