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Trending Lyricist I
Mar 25, 2023 2:01 PM UTC

Audible & Sonos Search

I use my Sonos system to listen to my Audible books.  I have hundreds of books so I use the search extensively, however, today I tried to search for a book while in the Audible list and Audible is not included in the drop down search.  So, it defaults to TuneIn and no results are found.  When did this change?  Is there a setting I am not seeing?  I tried looking under Amazon Music but that is specifically music not Audible.  Any help would be appreciated.

 

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Airgetlam
Mar 25, 2023 8:07 PM UTC

There’s at least two, possibly more, reasons for this. First, and perhaps most likely, is that for some reason, the ‘authorization’ between your Sonos speakers and the Audible servers is borked in some way, and you may need to force a re-auth. Second, and at least in my estimation, a lesser possibility, is that at the time of your testing, the Audible server was ‘down’ and not responding to the data being sent to it by your system.

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Bruce
NeetjeanAuthor
Trending Lyricist I
Mar 25, 2023 11:27 PM UTC

Thank you Bruce, I will contact support on this issue.

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Mar 26, 2023 4:15 PM UTC

It would appear that search for books and authors has disappeared from the search tabs. Probably a mistake(?) by someone at Audible or Sonos.

Hopefully to be rectified asap.

I know search is being changed, so maybe when we all get the new version it will have reappeared?

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Richard
NeetjeanAuthor
Trending Lyricist I
Mar 26, 2023 11:11 PM UTC

Thanks Richard, I am with you on the asap piece!

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controlav
Lead Maestro
Mar 27, 2023 1:01 PM UTC

I debugged this last week in the original thread. Someone at Audible or Sonos have explicitly disabled Search.

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NeetjeanAuthor
Trending Lyricist I
Mar 27, 2023 1:15 PM UTC

What the heck!

 

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controlav
Lead Maestro
Mar 27, 2023 2:54 PM UTC

Here is the original thread:

 

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Contributor I
Apr 10, 2023 2:34 PM UTC

I have been having exactly the same problem. Have tried re-authorising with no success. Did have an online chat with support at sonos re this problem and understand that they have escalated to problem but still waiting

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NeetjeanAuthor
Trending Lyricist I
Apr 10, 2023 2:37 PM UTC

Thank you lornawallace.  I contacted Audible support as well but they have not updated me for over a month.

 

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Apr 10, 2023 3:31 PM UTC

Still no book search. I think Sonos are aware of this, but I’m not sure who Sonos/Audible can fix it.

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Richard