"I love Audible,Get blind drunk and unintelligible,Or get so high its unmanageable,But I get it good with Audible!
The books read aloud are music to my ears,The money spent is the negatives everyone hears,But those amazing voices are like a great case of your favourite beers,Inside my devices are Audible!
Audible Dot Com! The place to be,Audible Dot Com! The amazing titles you’ll see!Audible Dot Com! Its all you need,When you’re drinking beers or smoking weed!
Audible Dot Com!"
Weezer, a once decent band turned advertising group.
That’s honestly the only reason why I know that they exist. I remember thinking that it was a weird name for a band since people who wheeze can’t talk well, let alone sing.
It was the only video you could watch without buffering for days with the shitty dial up internet of the time. OH OH AND YOU’RE MARY TYLER MOORE. Fucking kill me.
There are other ways to get your audiobooks ad-free.
Actually, now that I’m thinking about it, there should be more discussion about ways to get ebooks and audiobooks outside of the major paid platforms like Audible. I was gonna make a wink-wink-nudge-nudge reference to pirating here, which is viable, but then I realized I couldn’t name 5 legitimate audiobook providers off the top of my head, and I consume a lot of books!
So besides Audible and Libby, can anyone tell me about good, legitimate sources for audiobooks?
I pay for a subscription to Scribd, i think its like $12 or $14 USD/month. I started using it after I heard an ad on Levar Burton’s short story podcast, “Levar Burton Reads”. His recommendation sold me because he’s a genuine advocate for literacy. I don’t THINK it’s Amazon affiliated, I try not to use Amazon products and services, but it’s getting harder all the time to avoid them. It has slightly less of a selection than audible, but I find many great things on there. It doesn’t have tokens or whatever the audible bullshit is, you can just listen to whatever you want whenever you want. There’s no ads, but it does make recommendations and suggestions, I’m sure those are some kind of sponsored. When I signed up, it also automatically signed me up for a free service called farfaria, or something like that, which is a children’s audio book service. I had no interest in that, but my mother, who is a nanny, really enjoys it. I really really like it, but there are some titles (can’t think of them off the top of my head, but mostly big name and brand new stuff) that aren’t on there that I do feel like I miss out on.
Yeah I looked too but I really enjoy listening to warhammer audiobooks. Libby is not an option and the libraties here don’t have any of those books available. Audible has every single one the moment they release.
I read the other day here on Lemmy about various US libraries accepting anyone to sign up. They say it’s for local residents, but anyone can sign up with a fake address and use it for Libby. IIRC, Chicago and Brooklyn among others were confirmed to be working. Maybe they have the books? I think if you search Lemmy for “Libby”, you’ll find the thread somewhere.
Was listening to one of my audio books. After chapter 24 it came in with music then was a narrator introducing the book I am currently listening to. Thought my app glicthed and was back at the beginning then after 30 seconds it continued at chapter 25.
Then it did again at chapter 40. I then knew what it was. It a placement for them to put an ad. I owned this book for years and suddenly this was added in.
Well, time for me to power listen to my remaining audible books before they’re ruined for me. I’m glad I went back to paperback books. Ain’t no ads getting suddenly added in my old faithfuls any time soon.
Right?! And the album’s several years old now. The song is one of many written in the midst of the pandemic about the peculiar escapes from life we find.
I love that part of the movie because at the time it premiered I had an acquaintance from university who was vegan. Dude would pass out cold if he stood up too fast. Doctor said that as it turns out, he was doing vegan wrong and he needed to eat meat ASAP to fix the damage to his metabolism. Then, afterwards, if he still wanted to be vegan he would have to supplement way more protein than he was doing before. The contrasting absurdity always cracked me up when they tried to make it as if being vegan gives them superpowers.
Oh my God, it never occurred to me that money exchanged hands for that song. I just thought it was a cute little pop culture reference. How do we know it’s not though? In any case, I bet this is the song OP is referring to.
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"I love Audible, Get blind drunk and unintelligible, Or get so high its unmanageable, But I get it good with Audible!
The books read aloud are music to my ears, The money spent is the negatives everyone hears, But those amazing voices are like a great case of your favourite beers, Inside my devices are Audible!
Audible Dot Com! The place to be, Audible Dot Com! The amazing titles you’ll see! Audible Dot Com! Its all you need, When you’re drinking beers or smoking weed!
Audible Dot Com!"
This sounds like a scene from Idiocracy
Welcome to our concert, I love you.
“Hey, everybody! Thanks for coming out tonight to our concert presented by Amazon dot com’s Audible dot com. Audible - it’s got what brains crave.”
“and don’t forget to subscribe and likeeeehhhhhh donate to us when you exit”
Then stop listening…
I’m pretty sure that was the gist of the post.
HOLY SHIT DUH
You’re an insufferable person.
And you sound like a douche
If you don’t spit on bands that make you pay to listen to ads then YOU’RE the douchebag ruining society, not me.
Ok dude. Chill out.
Never. I crank my whole life up to 11 bro.
“Weezer is a shitty corporate sell-out band” hasn’t been breaking news in like three decades. Their music video for Buddy Holly came on the Windows 95 installation disc for God’s sake
That’s honestly the only reason why I know that they exist. I remember thinking that it was a weird name for a band since people who wheeze can’t talk well, let alone sing.
It was the only video you could watch without buffering for days with the shitty dial up internet of the time. OH OH AND YOU’RE MARY TYLER MOORE. Fucking kill me.
I was amazed that the Windows 95 stock Media Player could minimize video to a 32x32 icon at full speed! I played it on loop for hours.
That’s pretty sick actually
This person just wrote copy for audible.
I dgaf what that cunt says.
Pinkerton was their peak. It was all downhill from there.
Yeah Pinkerton was great, the rest is fine
Pinkerton is good but it’s pretty much just “Weezer does the Pixies.” Listening to Doolittle and Bossanova ruined so many 90s albums for me
Bruh I have like, at least two albums in my collection that are quite literally just “Such and such does the pixies”.
That’s when you start spitting on that band.
Audio books are free with Libby. Fuck audible. Support libraries.
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Worse is Audible is about to put ads in their books. Which is bullshit if I pay for a book no way should they be allowed to add ads into my books.
There are other ways to get your audiobooks ad-free.
Actually, now that I’m thinking about it, there should be more discussion about ways to get ebooks and audiobooks outside of the major paid platforms like Audible. I was gonna make a wink-wink-nudge-nudge reference to pirating here, which is viable, but then I realized I couldn’t name 5 legitimate audiobook providers off the top of my head, and I consume a lot of books!
So besides Audible and Libby, can anyone tell me about good, legitimate sources for audiobooks?
I pay for a subscription to Scribd, i think its like $12 or $14 USD/month. I started using it after I heard an ad on Levar Burton’s short story podcast, “Levar Burton Reads”. His recommendation sold me because he’s a genuine advocate for literacy. I don’t THINK it’s Amazon affiliated, I try not to use Amazon products and services, but it’s getting harder all the time to avoid them. It has slightly less of a selection than audible, but I find many great things on there. It doesn’t have tokens or whatever the audible bullshit is, you can just listen to whatever you want whenever you want. There’s no ads, but it does make recommendations and suggestions, I’m sure those are some kind of sponsored. When I signed up, it also automatically signed me up for a free service called farfaria, or something like that, which is a children’s audio book service. I had no interest in that, but my mother, who is a nanny, really enjoys it. I really really like it, but there are some titles (can’t think of them off the top of my head, but mostly big name and brand new stuff) that aren’t on there that I do feel like I miss out on.
I like downpour.com, and I have used audible-tools.kamsker.at to remove the DRM from audible.
Yeah I looked too but I really enjoy listening to warhammer audiobooks. Libby is not an option and the libraties here don’t have any of those books available. Audible has every single one the moment they release.
I read the other day here on Lemmy about various US libraries accepting anyone to sign up. They say it’s for local residents, but anyone can sign up with a fake address and use it for Libby. IIRC, Chicago and Brooklyn among others were confirmed to be working. Maybe they have the books? I think if you search Lemmy for “Libby”, you’ll find the thread somewhere.
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Are they actually? I’m so glad I cancelled my subscription.
Was listening to one of my audio books. After chapter 24 it came in with music then was a narrator introducing the book I am currently listening to. Thought my app glicthed and was back at the beginning then after 30 seconds it continued at chapter 25.
Then it did again at chapter 40. I then knew what it was. It a placement for them to put an ad. I owned this book for years and suddenly this was added in.
Think it a test.
Well, time for me to power listen to my remaining audible books before they’re ruined for me. I’m glad I went back to paperback books. Ain’t no ads getting suddenly added in my old faithfuls any time soon.
fuck amazon in general tbh
Grapes of Wrath is a great song, it’s not some “audible ad”. It’s weird that one of their best songs in years is being characterized like that.
Right?! And the album’s several years old now. The song is one of many written in the midst of the pandemic about the peculiar escapes from life we find.
We are Weezer and we are here to make money and sell out and stuff!
They’re indestructible because they are vegan too
Hopefully they remember that chicken parmesan isn’t vegan.
I love that part of the movie because at the time it premiered I had an acquaintance from university who was vegan. Dude would pass out cold if he stood up too fast. Doctor said that as it turns out, he was doing vegan wrong and he needed to eat meat ASAP to fix the damage to his metabolism. Then, afterwards, if he still wanted to be vegan he would have to supplement way more protein than he was doing before. The contrasting absurdity always cracked me up when they tried to make it as if being vegan gives them superpowers.
Then he ate a bacon cheeseburger and won the lottery.
Coincidence? I think not.
The ads are really affecting me. I’m reaching my threshold.
I’m so ashamed to be a Gen Xer’.
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Weezer? More like, Weiner.
You could tell they’d sold out to Audible when “Grapes of Wrath” came out.
Oh my God, it never occurred to me that money exchanged hands for that song. I just thought it was a cute little pop culture reference. How do we know it’s not though? In any case, I bet this is the song OP is referring to.
My friend went to a Weezer concert recently, he said there weren’t any ads pushed.
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What stage of capitalism is this?
I’m finding it more and more difficult to keep track these days.
It’s the acceptance stage.