How to play AAX audio books from Audible? I have bought some audio books at Audible. The default .aa files play fine in VLC, but the quality is pretty bad - there's a constant background hum during any speech. Their enhanced quality audio files open in VLC, which displays the frontispiece, chapter number, and progress indicator, but **there is no sound.** Is it possible to fix this (Linux and open source software being the two parameters I care about)? The latest VLC (2.2.4) displays the following codec information for an .aax file: * Stream 0 * Type: Audio * Codec: MPEG AAC Audio (aavd) * Language: English * Sample rate: 44100 Hz * Bits per sample: 16 * Bitrate: 1411 kb/s * Stream 1 * Type: Subtitle * Codec: tx3g * Language: English

Using audible-activator and AAXtoMP3 worked. With a few tweaks, AAXtoMP3 converts to FLAC as well.