About a month ago I started having a problem playing Audible books through the Sonos app. When I try to play a book I get an error message saying “Unable to play ‘Opening credits’ - the song is not encoded correctly”. It quickly tries to play the next 4 chapters with the same error message before it fails and stops.

I have the seven Harry Potter audiobooks through Audible and I had listened to the first two books with no problem. I would start the book in the Sonos app and then use Alexa for playback controls. With this I only use the Sonos app once in the beginning of a book and not again until I need to start another book. When I went to start the third book, that was when I noticed the problem described above. I tried playing both of the first two books that worked before, but both had the same error. I then tried two Audible Original books and those had the same error. With that it seems that it is unlikely to be a problem with an individual book.

My setup is two Play:1’s as a stereo pair and a single Sonos One with Alexa enabled. The error occurs whether I try to play a book on the Play:1’s or the One. I use an iPad with the S1 app along with the Audible and Alexa apps. All of this is connected to a home WiFi network. The services I have connected to the Sonos app are Spotify, SiriusXM, and Audible. Spotify and SiriusXM still continue to work fine as they did before the problem. I can play the books on the Audible app through my iPad, but if I try “Connect to device “ to play it through my Sonos speakers it skips through the next few chapters and then stops playing.

Since I last was able to start a book through the Sonos app, there has been a few iPadOS updates that I don’t know what effect that has had. Otherwise nothing of my setup has changed. I do have a baby monitor camera in the room with the speakers that if plugged in the wireless signal to the monitor interferes with the speakers operation. That affects all services evenly including Alexa. When unplugged everything works fine except for the problem I described above. The camera was in the room before the problem started.

I have reauthorized my Audible account, removed and added both the Audible and Alexa services. I have restarted my cable modem, router, and all 3 speakers with no change in the problem. These were all done with the above mentioned camera unplugged so there would be no interference. The only thing I haven’t tried yet is deregistering my speakers from amazon and reconnect them.

I’ve tried just about everything I can think of and find online. I’m hoping this post and the diagnostic report will shed some light on the problem and lead to a solution.

Diagnostic number: 166610410

Thanks in advance to anyone that reads my post and/or tries to help.