Audiobook Ripping

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Audible

  1. Get your Audible activation data
  2. Convert the downloaded .aax file

Audible activation data

Multiple possible ways exist to extract activation data from Audible .aax-files

The simples way is just using this AAX checksum resolver
Alternatively audible-activator can be used as well

Convert AAX file

Using ffmpeg and the activation bytes, a file can easily be convertet to m4b 

ffmpeg -activation_bytes [XXXXXXXX] -i [Audiobook].aax -c copy [Audiobook].m4b