The answer to NetLibrary’s DRM?
Today I picked up a piece of software called Tunebite . Tunebite is a very simple program, but comes close to solving my problem with NetLibrary's DRM'd audio books (see my previous post for more information). Tunebite acts just like an old-fashioned dual-deck cassette deck with high speed dubbing. It plays the audio in iTunes or Windows Media player, but it plays them at 4x speed. At the same time, it records the track to disk, either in OGG, MP3, or WMA.
It's a brilliant, and legal, way to listen to DRM'd audio on equipment that doesn't support that DRM version.
One big drawback - the high speed recording has to start at the beginning of the track. That's a problem for long tracks, like the 16 hour audio book I'm working on now. Even at high speed, that's 4 hours of computer time, not to mention one huge mp3 file.