Audible

Sure you did. You made an at minimum $2000 purchase without ever checking if the most important service to you was supported, then kept them well past the return period, and sold them at a loss just as the company has promised support? Yeah, we believe you. 😉

That made me smile! 🙂

I just got the Sonos One on sale and decided to keep it, despite it failing to play audiobooks, but it has a one-star review over at Amazon from me. The less elegant solution if you want whole home voice-controlled audiobooks is an echo dot and a Bose soundtouch mini. They are sold as a package, and you can get them new from Amazon or Bose for $210 / room.

I took the somewhat more affordable approach of only needing one speaker to figure out Sonos wouldn’t work for me. ;)

(I’d love to rewrite that review, team Sonos.)

Sure you did. You made an at minimum $2000 purchase without ever checking if the most important service to you was supported, then kept them well past the return period, and sold them at a loss just as the company has promised support? Yeah, we believe you. ;)

I bought Sonos without realizing it wouldn’t play audiobooks too. It never occurred to me it would lack the ability to play audiobooks, or any other media.

I'll put my hand in the pot and say... SONOS could do a little better job of disclaiming the limitations on their website/page about the "One" https://www.sonos.com/en-us/shop/one.html

...Will first say, I would never go all in (10 speakers) on a new technology without first demo/testing it first.
Secondly.... Here are some verbatim comments from the Sonos website that I find slightly comical and confusing at the same time.

"Start and control your music with your voice. Amazon Alexa built right in." (Longtime Amazon Alexa users just assume since its an Amazon device that it will have the same trusted functionality....DOH!)
"....enjoy all those other helpful Amazon Alexa skills using a single Sonos speaker." (Not so much!... not all the skills are working right now... hopefully they will in due time with updates)
"You can even request a lullaby" (The real Alexa cannot even do this, she complains about it making her very tired)

I'm not against SONOS as I own 2 ONE models and love them. Just being patient for the updates to rollout that will hopefully add more functionality to the Alexa device.

This was another unpleasant surprise after having bought several Sonoses last week. I assumed after seeing Alexa and Amazon Music support that Audible would just work, and didn't actually look it up till today ?‍♂️

https://sonos.custhelp.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/223/~/audible-and-sonos

AudioBooks.com and Amazon Music works just fine, but I don't want to buy stuff all over again.

Well at least it will come back so just hang tight I say

They've been saying that since 2014.

Oh no. Really?!? That sucks

Sure you did. You made an at minimum $2000 purchase without ever checking if the most important service to you was supported, then kept them well past the return period, and sold them at a loss just as the company has promised support? Yeah, we believe you. ;)

It must be true. I read it on the internet. 🙂