Hi privacy people,

I'm considering moving from lineageOS to GrapheneOS.
I only have one strict functionality requirement. Does anyone use audible fine with grapheneOS? any problems that I should know about? Have I got to sandbox it etc where do I obtain the app?

Thanks!

I am not currently using the Audible app with GrapheneOs. But I know that the app works with LineageOS and Microg. So it should surely work with GrapheneOs as well. You can download the app from the sandboxed Google Play Store. Alternatively via the Aurora Store. All apps in GrapheneOS are sandboxed by default. You may want to enable storage scopes for the app (you will be asked for permission during installation).

    Graphite same here! Audible works great without play services on the owner profile.

    Thanks guys, I literally ordered a pixel just because of the above posts.
    I'll have to put up with audible until there's another option, preferably open-sourced.

    5 months later

    I use Voice App on my mobile to play audio books, i purchase audio books from audible and download them on my pc and covert them from aax format to m4a.
    If you want to try this see this video on how to convert the files, its very easy.

      10 months later

      W1zardK1ng you're my hero.
      I've had Voice for a while but struggled to find Audiobooks for it. I had no idea you could download from Audible.
      Up until now I had Audible in another profile. It was very annoying when I would get something like a Signal message in my main profile and would need to stop Audible to take a look.

      I found an alternative conversion process for anyone that doesn't want to download and run that project on their machine. This is for Linux with ffprobe and ffmpeg

      $ ffprobe <your audio book>.aax 2>&1 | grep checksum

      will show checksum == <the books checksum>
      Then you can paste that checksum into this page https://audible-tools.kamsker.at/ to resolve the checksum.
      It will find the activation code for you and show you how to run the conversion on your operating system.
      Mine were of the form

      $ ffmpeg -y -activation_bytes <activation value> -i '<aax file>' -codec copy '<output file>.m4b'

      If you use m4b instead of m4a you should also get chapters showing up in Voice.

      9 days later

      I used to use inaudible when we were still able to get .aax files. Does anyone have any info on how to convert .aaxc files? All my newer books are in this format now and inaudible no longer works...neither does the above $ ffprobe method.