Comments on: Audible DRM issue

By: Bill Higgins

Bill Higgins — Mon, 16 Jan 2012 02:27:45 +0000

Leigh: I would suggest the following:

1. Connect your iPhone to your Mac via the cable
2. In iTunes, click on the iPhone icon on the left-nav
3. In the main area in iTunes, click on the “Books” tab
4. Ensure that your settings are configured to sync books (I just sync all ebooks)

By: Leigh

Leigh — Tue, 10 Jan 2012 19:06:30 +0000

I have a related problem. I bought (mostly for free) ebooks that I downloaded into my iPhone. I synced them into iTunes on my MacbookPro. Now they are in the laptop but have disappeared from the iPhone (since a software upgrade.) Why? And how can I get them back? Thanks for any help.

By: Derrick

Derrick — Tue, 19 Jul 2011 21:17:23 +0000

Hey this looks like a great solution to my incredibly annoying issue. However I have no idea what it all means. Can someone help me in non-computer speak? Thanks

Derrick

By: Liz R

Liz R — Fri, 04 Mar 2011 16:25:07 +0000

I don’t actually dislike DRM (usually) but I hate it when something goes haywire with the ‘blessing’ process and deprives me of rights that I originally acquired properly under the grantor’s terms and conditions. I had the same experience of authorization not persisting across iTunes launches after I used Time Machine to migrate my stuff from a macbook running leopard to a macbook pro running Snow Leopard. Thanks for your post, it worked like a charm to delete the existing plist and then redo the authorization.

By: Danny

Danny — Tue, 28 Dec 2010 16:36:20 +0000

A google search led me to this post which ended up solving my issue which had been plaguing me ever since I restored a Time Machine backup to my new Mac Pro. I really dislike DRM. Thanks. (BTW the font size in your comment input form is almost impossible to read it’s so small:)

By: Rick Gan

Rick Gan — Fri, 05 Nov 2010 12:34:48 +0000

Thank you so much for the info. It helped me solve my iTunes~Audible authorisation problem. Cheers!

By: Robby MacLean

Robby MacLean — Tue, 03 Aug 2010 07:37:23 +0000

Thanks for this, this very issue has been making me crazy, almost canceled Audible over it.

By: Greg

Greg — Mon, 19 Jul 2010 23:42:57 +0000

Oops. Add to that. The pref file IS there, but under the main hard drive preferences and not under my Home folder prefs.

By: Greg

Greg — Mon, 19 Jul 2010 23:41:05 +0000

Wow! Same thing happened to me, after getting a new MBPro and using Time Machine to copy everything like it was on my old iMac (so I thought). I finally realized it must have been from that because nothing else had changed on my system. Interesting…

Of course, the Audible people hit a wall and were like, “Hmmm…well call Apple.” I ended up just unintalling iTunes app and helper and a few prefs, and re-downloading and installing. That did the trick. No more reauthorizing and having 17 hours of books disappearing off my iPods. The other annoying thing about that was that in the middle of a very long book, you have to find where you were in the book because iTunes resets the counter at the first chapter!

Anyway, thanks for posting this. It’s nice to know I wasn’t crazy. That audible preference file doesn’t show up though. Don’t understand why, but it’s not in there. Strange. Oh well, I’m not complaining.

Thanks again,
Greg

By: nukenavy

nukenavy — Sun, 09 May 2010 18:13:06 +0000

thankyou this solves a big problem for me becase i cant always get intrenet access to reautherise the account