Audible ?

Audible is a real issue for a lot of us system owners/users and at this time I not aware of any good solution. I've been on the "chuck all the sonos and start over" precipice for about a month now. My "workaround" is the obvious one: I output some device (phone, cpu, whatever) to the 3.5mm input in the back of a play5 I happen to have. I'm glad I have it but never intended this Play5 to be my "computer" speaker. If anyone knows about a good way to use audible through sonos that doesn't involve a 3.5mm cable, I'd love to know it.

I'm curious: I don't use Alexa but am a heavy amazon consumer... would a house filled with of those little alexa units (from AMAZON not SONOS) solve the Audible problem? I love love love my sonos sound but also audible functionality. Gonna be an interesting gift-giving season. Somebody I know might be getting a lot of used sonos stuff. I HOPE NOT. There has to be a better way.

Sonos let’s me access Podcasts on my phone. Please Sonos, add Audible as an options to play from my phone! How hard can that be? Seems to me if a well used app for the iPhone is listened to the. Sonos should be able to play it.
Thank you!!

Brought a play:1 7 months ago on the understanding that Audible support was returning in the summer. Now sold and being replaced with an echo. Hugely disappointing experience.

Last time I tried playing an audible book (3 weeks ago or something) on my new Sonos One, it said "audible is not supported on this device yet" or some such.
I tried it yesterday and it now it goes to play it, saying where I am in the book etc. but then fails to actually start playing the book.
Is this suppose to work yet or is it still being worked on by Sonos?

I perchased Sonos specificly for Audible use throughout my home. Of course I find out its not supported after unboxing and setting it all up.

It's a deal breaker for me if I can't get it to work. I contacted Sonos and the only solution they gave me was pluging in my phone with an AUX cord. Unfortunately none of the products I bought have that option... It also defeats the purpose of buying Sonos in the first place.

Apparantly they are "working" on making it compatable, it was suppose to come out this summer. They never followed through, which is disappointing. I researched a bit online and apparently Sonos has a reputation for not following through with promises like these. It's beyond disappointing to think it might never work. It seems to me with Alexa built in it should be able to work. It definetly seems like it tries! Alexa is able to find the book and give me information on it but never plays it. It gives me a little hope but I am still uncomfortable knowing Sono's reputation.

My boyfriend does work for Geeksquad and we are going to try and find a backwards way to make it work. If we figure it out I will lets you all know! Otherwise these go back to best buy! Which is so sad to me, especially after the hype associated with these products!

I think there are two different things here:
1. Make Audible available so you can add it as a "Service" into Sonos like you can many others (spotify, deezer etc). This is what was removed a couple of years (approx) ago - I have no idea when this is being added back in.
2. Make it available via Alexa on the new Sonos ONE (like it is already available on the Amazon Echo). I think this should be fairly soon (month or two?)
I believe these are 2 completely different issues from a technical engineering stand point and Sonos need to be clear on their communication which they are talking about.

I think there are two different things here:
1. Make Audible available so you can add it as a "Service" into Sonos like you can many others (spotify, deezer etc). This is what was removed a couple of years (approx) ago - I have no idea when this is being added back in.
2. Make it available via Alexa on the new Sonos ONE (like it is already available on the Amazon Echo). I think this should be fairly soon (month or two?)
I believe these are 2 completely different issues from a technical engineering stand point and Sonos need to be clear on their communication which they are talking about.

Audible will operate from the Audible app on your device. This is firmly in Amazon’s court. As you use Audible you will know how it works and why Amazon broke it.

You may not know that a Sonos speaker works by being told an address to go and fetch a file from. This address is saved on the speaker. The controller does nothing other than initially telling the speaker. That’s it. Really simple and extremely robust.

You know that Audible then WRITES back to your PERSONAL Audible account how far you have reached so that it may be synced with other Amazon content.
Sonos writes nothing.
Sonos can change the fundamental way their system works to enable this. A seriously major system rewrite from the bottom up.
Happy with a third party app writing stuff to your personal account file in another company?
Happy that Amazon will tell Sonos to get lost as you ain’t going anywhere near their account files?
Happy that it is highly likely to be unlawful?
Happy that it just wouldn’t work as a Sonos speaker is “dumb” thing and has no idea what is going on - unlike the Audible app?

Conclusion: waiting for Amazon to include Audible functionality back into Sonos. Sonos can’t do anything except ask.

Eek. I asked pretty much the same question. I just have the new One from the holiday sale and am disappointed as well.

Audible is a real issue for a lot of us system owners/users and at this time I not aware of any good solution. I've been on the "chuck all the sonos and start over" precipice for about a month now. My "workaround" is the obvious one: I output some device (phone, cpu, whatever) to the 3.5mm input in the back of a play5 I happen to have. I'm glad I have it but never intended this Play5 to be my "computer" speaker. If anyone knows about a good way to use audible through sonos that doesn't involve a 3.5mm cable, I'd love to know it.

I'm curious: I don't use Alexa but am a heavy amazon consumer... would a house filled with of those little alexa units (from AMAZON not SONOS) solve the Audible problem? I love love love my sonos sound but also audible functionality. Gonna be an interesting gift-giving season. Somebody I know might be getting a lot of used sonos stuff. I HOPE NOT. There has to be a better way.

My boyfriend works for geeksquad just figured out a solution to this! At least for some of us.

So if you happen to have a Sonos Playbar or Sonos PlayBase and an Amazon Fire TV stick there is a way to make it work without any extra wires. You just need to use the Fire Tv to run audible, as long as you have Either Sonos playbase or Playbar attached to the same tv as the fire tv you can then use the app to cast Audible to the other speakers in the house.

I hope this helps others out! 🆒

The original timeline to have audible working with Sonos was this summer, i know they tried and failed to get it working by then. They have a new timeline of the end of this year.

The fact that for the last few days when you ask Alexa to play audible to a speaker or ask directly on the Sonos One she tries is a good sign i think.