Audible is 80% of my use case. I might have to take it back
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Audible ?
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I have just bought a Sonos One. The sound is great. The Alexa integration doesn't seem to work well. A lot of the skills just don't work. Audible is really important for me and I thought it would be possible to play through Alexa. It tells me it is about to play my book..but nothing happens.
Audible is 80% of my use case. I might have to take it back
Audible is 80% of my use case. I might have to take it back
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Well, here we are into February, and my return window will close soon. Voice-enabled Audible still hasn't shown up on my Sonos One, and I'm expecting that it would ultimately be a good 40% of what I'd use the speaker for, so, no willing to gamble on it now showing up, I just initiated a return.
If I haven't bought another solution for my usage by the time it comes back, maybe I'll consider buying the Sonos One again.
Ah, well!
If I haven't bought another solution for my usage by the time it comes back, maybe I'll consider buying the Sonos One again.
Ah, well!
Sounds good ??
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I would say that Sonos I'm sure completely agrees with you. They know that getting Audible back on Sonos has been a complete disaster. I don't know why but they obviously had a lot of issues working with Amazon on re-introducing the intergration. It's not 1 year late it is 2 years late. I'm not excusing Sonos on the issue I'm just providing information that it is in fact really coming finally.
I only can say it is sad ? that it is still not supported when I promise something to my customers I try to held my promise nearly one year to late is very sad
That is up to Amazon. As of right now, the Alexa interface can only play what is configured in Alexa, and you cannot configure your local library in Alexa. You should lobby over on the Alexa forum as well as here.
A simple input jack would solve this problem. I’m using/testing Bose soundlink and echo dot - a less elegant, and less expensive solution on a per-room basis, but the end result is the same: voice controlled books and music. I am just about to purchase an entirely new home theater setup to accompany a new 4K television and I am still considering Sonos. I’ve come to appreciate the ability to put down my kindle, and just say “Hey Alexa, play my audible,” and it picks up where I stopped. Although I last tested it in early December, there were other Alexa apps that wouldn’t work n Sonos One as well - nature sounds and whatnot.
(I’d love to update my review, Team Sonos - the mic isn’t all that great compared to other voice-con devices I use, but if I could play my books with this speaker, my review would jump from one to four stars.)
That is up to Amazon. As of right now, the Alexa interface can only play what is configured in Alexa, and you cannot configure your local library in Alexa. You should lobby over on the Alexa forum as well as here.
I still have a Sonos One I bought to test out the system a back around Thanksgiving - and my one-star review is still on Amazon. I was hoping the issue would be fixed by now, as it is about time to upgrade (nine more speakers). Speakers that will not play content I have paid for are unacceptable and useless to me.
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Yea bummer it hasn't made it yet. It's been a long time coming. I think there is still hope for early February and I hope my predictions come true.
I was sad that the update yesterday didn't bring the Audible functionality. I really expected this to be in the Sonos One, as the link with Amazon services is so engrained that for it not to have it is so counter-intuitive.
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Ooh, fingers crossed, then. January will still be solidly within my return window.
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I'm taking it from Sonos hints, marketing, expectation of a firmware update this month for multiple things (Audible included). I have actually been saying I would expect an update tomorrow (Tuesday) - sonos tends to like Tuesdays. But if not this Tuesday then I would expect next Tuesday so we get update in January.
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Hey Chris,
What makes you think it's just a matter of days? Or January-February 2018?
My return window closes during that January-
February time frame, and, given the record from 2016 to now on the Audible front, I'm inclined to return my Sonos One and wait until this is resolved before considering re-buying it, if I haven't simply gone with a Bluetooth speaker plus Echo Dot approach.
As I was just researching casually this past weekend...some Bluetooth speakers can maintained connection w more than one source (though maybe not simultaneously actively...), so even Sonos' projected multi-smart-assistant promise might be approachable with just adding a Google Home Mini or whatever if I feel like it...
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I don’t use audible and don’t particularly care about its status on other devices. I just know it is returning to Sonos after long absence any day now.
Audible updated their service to work on more things 2 years ago. That is eons in consumer tech world. Since then Google came up with the assistant. Amazon came up with several new echo’s. Have you asked yourself who else is having a problem with Audible? Apple? Android? Anybody? Then ask yourself why Sonos said Oct 2016. Then spring 2017. Then summer 2017. And now it is 2018. I’m done here. Have fun.
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Well I'm still sticking with Jan-Feb 2018.
It is my understanding that it was Audible that broke the support and it required Audible to get on the ball working with Sonos to fix.
It is my understanding that it was Audible that broke the support and it required Audible to get on the ball working with Sonos to fix.
Sonos announced earlier that it would be complete by late 2016. Then ammended it to summer 2017.
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I never saw any predictions it would be 2017. Now if you said January-February 2018 - then I'm on board.
Apparently sooner vs later doesn't include 2017. 2018 and still no audible. 2 years now. Disgraceful.
upvote for audible support
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Well amazon can be blamed on some of the voice support. But when it comes to audible support this has been a mess by Sonos from the beginning when it stopped working a couple years ago. But they are finally getting it in order... finally.
This is in Amazon’s hands to fix. They have to work on how Alexa processes requests. If I said “play my audiobook in the master bedroom,” she will respond “I can’t find “in the master’s bedroom.” The only thing that Sonos can do is wait. You can play your audible book to AppleTV and, if you have a playbar, go into Sonos and group the speakers for the book (lowering volume on playbar). Or download the book to computer and add to your library to play via Sonos. There are workarounds while they figure things out.
Since they seem to be advertising Audible on their Sonos One marketing welcome emails, I'd suspect it's coming sooner than later.
Na, welches „Vöglein“ da wohl Volker Weber etwas „gezwitschert“ hat 😃
https://vowe.net/archives/016744.html#c080252
There's an alarming image included on top of it. 😉
Saw this posted on another forum FWIW. Hopefully a sign it is coming back after years.
https://vowe.net/archives/016744.html#c080252
https://vowe.net/archives/016744.html#c080252
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