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can't open m4b file [ebook]

Asked by Not As needi newbi

in Feisty Fawn, can't open file ending with m4b. It's a book.

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cut (cut) said : 		#1

As far as I see, its a DRM protected Audibook from Itunes. Amarok, a KDE media player which is available from the repositories, should be able to read these since version 1.4.0. Hope that helps.

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Not As needi newbi (mango553) said : 		#2

i have Amarok already and when i tried to use it, it said "error loading media There is no audio channel"
I tried to configure it but failed to get sound.

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cut (cut) said : 		#3

Did you try it with different m4b files? Maybe the file itself is damaged.

Another idea would be to try vlc. Vlc media player has most of its codecs already included, so if the file isn't damaged you should be able to play it and hear something. I just tried it with a random downloaded m4b file and it worked perfectly fine.

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Not As needi newbi (mango553) said : 		#4

 It didn't have any sound in VLC. I tried opening it with gxine and got this: DRM-protected Quicktime file

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Best Mathias Uebelacker (muebelacker) said : 		#5

Hello,

m4b is an restricted format and it is some additional work necessary to fix that problem. maybe you fwill find your solution here[1].

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Mathias

[1] http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=193748&highlight=m4a

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Not As needi newbi (mango553) said : 		#6

Thanks Mathias Uebelacker, that solved my question.