Hangs on download error

[snowskeleton]

I recently had an account error where a book was in my library but not downloadable (for unrelated reasons).

audible-cli didn't seem to handle this well. With the --all flag, it would download all legal targets, issuing errors and skipping existing files as appropriate, but then just hang indefinitely until interrupted.

Here's an abbreviated stack trace

$ audible download --all --aaxc
...
<other successful downloads>
...
error: The Wealth of Nations is not downloadable.
error: City of Light: The Traveler's Gate Trilogy, Volume 3 is not downloadable.                          
error: The Crimson Vault: The Traveler's Gate Trilogy, Volume 2 is not downloadable.
<hangs here>
^C
Aborted!
sys:1: RuntimeWarning: coroutine 'download_aaxc' was never awaited
RuntimeWarning: Enable tracemalloc to get the object allocation traceback

Not a high priority issue, but I figured you'd like to have the info.

[mkb79]

Hi. Thank you for this information. The code should not hang here, just skip the item. I will look on this.

FYI:
You don’t have the right to consume these titles offline. Maybe these are streamable only? These is the reason for the issue but not why it’s hang.

[snowskeleton]

The reason for the error is that Audible removed the titles from their Plus catalog, so I no longer had rights to them. I was able to sort it out with amazon support thankfully.

[philgoetz]

Is this related to the fact that audible-cli can't resume after a ctrl-z ?
I'm running audible-cli thru cygwin on a Windows 10 base, like this:

audible download -o downloads/aaxc/ --all --aax-fallback

I paused it with ctrl-z, but when I later tried to 'fg' it, it took over the foreground but never downloaded another file, nor terminated, nor printed anything to the terminal.

[mkb79]

Do you have the same issue if you download an book with --aaxc instead of --aax-fallback

[philgoetz]

No, it resumes just fine from that.

[mkb79]

@philgoetz
I'm think this issue have to do with #193.

[mkb79]

@philgoetz
Can you try out the same with option --timeout 0? The new downloader class of audible-cli makes now a HEAD request to collect some information from the server. The response for this HEAD request will take 1 - 2 minutes for aax files. For aaxc files this take only some ms. Therefore the client will timeout without an exception. Why ever?!

[philgoetz]

@philgoetz Can you try out the same with option --timeout 0?

I did, and it resumed correctly!

[philgoetz]

I have another problem more-similar to that of the original poster: a crash on a file which is not downloadable

File /cygdrive/d/data/audio_/Audible/downloads/aaxc/How_to_See_Looking_Talking_and_Thinking_About_Art-AAX_22_64.aaxc already exists. Skip download.
error: Fundamental Principles of the Metaphysics of Morals is not downloadable.

Fundamental Principles etc. is listed on audible.com as a title available for purchase, but when viewed within my library, it says it is "Unavailable". After I click on 'Unavailable' for more info, a popup appears saying "Check that your Audible membership isn’t cancelled or paused. If it isn't, this title may not be available anymore."

I think this is a title which I added to my library when it was temporarily free, and which isn't free anymore.
There will be many such files in my library.

[mkb79]

You can try to provide the --ignore-errors option.

[snowskeleton]

Also @philgoetz you might have some luck reaching out to Audible support to have those titles permanently added to your library. I had "purchased" a couple free titles that stopped being free, and they added them to my account when I asked. YMMV.

[philgoetz]

You can try to provide the --ignore-errors option.

I removed all those titles, and provided --ignore-errors, and successfully downloaded everything.

[philgoetz]

On Fri, Mar 22, 2024 at 3:36 PM Isaac Lyons ***@***.***> wrote: Also @philgoetz <https://github.com/philgoetz> you might have some luck reaching out to Audible support to have those titles permanently added to your library. I had "purchased" a couple free titles that stopped being free, and they added them to my account when I asked. YMMV.Message ID: ***@***.***>

Aw, too late. I just removed them all. But thanks.