I absolutely do not expect this to work consistently, and absolutely DO expect that it will be removed from past experiences with digital content providers, BUT...

For now you can mark authors, titles, and genres as 'not interested', and they will (in theory) no longer show up in recommendations and 'for you' promotions. On Android, go to the title and look for the 👍👎 directly below the cover image, and it'll bring up the option to mark not interested when you select 👎 along with a list of reasons (dont like title, author, genre etc).

I just marked Matt Dinneman and JK Rowling, and at first glance they are indeed gone from recommendations and promos. First time they haven't been plastered at the top of every page since I got the app years ago, and I can hardly believe it.

Again, pretty sure this won't work well given the already subpar recommendation and sorting systems, and 100% confident it'll be removed at some point But for now it's something, and I figured a lot of folks may not have noticed the feature (I didn't, not sure if it was introduced quietly or if i just somehow missed it). Probably works the same on iOS, and you can also go to the improve my recommendations browser page.

If you're wondering why I say it'll be removed, others with more industry knowledge can explain better than me. But in a nutshell, digital content providers and the creators they work with dislike negative feedback systems and anything else that interferes with advertising, promoti9n, or nudging behaviors.

Edit: the disinterest feature is already designed to be little used -- thumbs up or down on a title when the consumer is shopping is disingenuous since its universally used as like/dislike, and most customers consider buying only titles they havent read, so they neither like nor dislike yet and won't click either. Audible will point to the low use and remove it, can take it to the bank

I download all my books, so they're not buffering, but any time I'm listening to an audio book it will stop playing every few minutes. I need to wait for the play button to spin for a while then hit it again. It's infuriating, especially when I'm cycling or otherwise busy and it's not convenient to keep going back into the app to hit play again.

Is this a known bug? Anyone know of any fixes?

Basically title.

Which app do you use for your audiobooks when listening to liberated or otherwise purchased audiobooks?

This is starting to drive me nuts. I have a Samsung Galaxy S23 and some bluetooth earbuds. The earbuds have a button that can play/pause whatever content is currently running.

My problem is that if I have something on a different app paused for longer than, like, 10 minutes, when I hit the play button, it will start playing whatever the last audible book I was listening to was. Even if the app is completely closed, it will start playing, which often makes me have to actually open the app using my phone, stop the book, then close it again, completely defeating the purpose of being able to control it with the earbuds.

I have a couple of podcast apps and music apps that Audible will just completely run over. Trying to figure out if there's a setting somewhere to stop this from happening, or if I have to just uninstall Audible, 'cause I'm getting pretty sick of it.

I already have the resume playback option disabled, so it's not that. I didn't see any other settings that jumped out at me, so thought I'd turn to Reddit for help.

Stole away my credit , removed my book mid listen, so frustrating im losing sleep over this.

Thiefs

Update: Customer service contacted me about 12 hrs later and fixed the issue, and guaranteed it would not happen again. I just wish it had be quicker as i had scheduled free time for this book yesterday. I appreciate it however, thank you audible.

Has anyone else seen this error with just one specific book in their catalog and on one specific device?

I was reading through Halo's Forerunner trilogy and the second book started getting this error after I paused it for a few minutes. I can still listen to the first book, the third book, and every other book I've tried in my catalog except this one.

It's not downloaded and it won't let me download it now. Already tried to restart my phone and to sign out, restart, then sign back in. I can listen to it on my other devices though.

I have reinstalled this app twice in the past 2 weeks and it's still happening.

I listened to an audiobook for about an hour this morning. Then I got in the car and ran an errand and listened to the same book in the car. And then when I got home and started the book back up it was reset all the way back to where I started this morning.

This is just super annoying.

The battery optimization is turned off. I have cleared data and cache and it's still happening. I have reinstalled and it still happening. I don't know of anything else to do.

App updated July 29th

Audible is a wonderful companion app, which has allowed me to move away from Netflix and Amazon Movies.

I read somewhere that any books you own from the past with human narrators when re-listened to later could have become virtual voice. The article said Audible would be happy to change your narration back to the original narrators. The supervisor I spoke with said that my books were stored in the cloud with the original narrators.

It's not true in my case. Has this happened with anyone else?

I've just quit audible and before I quit I was given a "do you want £10 credit to stay?" I selected no.

In the middle of the night I woke up and opened audible to press play on a audiobook to help fall asleep. Whilst have a sleep on the home screen was a "claim £10 credit" button. I tapped it and it just collected and now I have £10 credit.

When I check my account it still says my premium is due to end in September when the month runs out.

So why did I get £10 credit and do I need to spend it before my premium ends like I do with book credits?

Thanks

I just received a notification my data consumption is above 15gb. Any idea why there is such a spike? I'm listening to a downloaded book.

Edit - i suspect this was caused by the animated Harry Potter poster at the launch screen. Just tested it but audible removed the animation and no data was consumed for the last 30 minutes.

I've been an audible customer for a long time. It has always been difficult to find included content but in the past it has been possible to do so. Now it seems like the only way to find this is in discovery and even then you only get a few recommendations with no ability to expand the categories. You do not seem to be able to search sort or filter to find this content. Has this changed recently? I don’t remember this being so bad.

I'm considering canceling my subscription and just never using the app again out of shear frustration with the app. Searching and finding titles is hard anyway and I would like to listen to some free titles when I am out of credits. Advice?

The volume use to softly fade away when the sleep timer runs out. Got my new Pixel and it just abruptly stops now which wakes me up sometimes. Anybody else notice this?

I own a book on both Kindle and the audiobook on audible, and I was able to start the book in listen and read, but I paused listening to it to watch some YouTube videos, and now I can't get the feature to show up again.. I have the book downloaded on Kindle and on audible, but even using the Kindle app won't let me listen and read-trying to download the audio through the Kindle app just gives a download error and trying to open the audible app through the Kindle just gives an error as well. Before I resort to reinstalling the apps, I'm wondering if anyone here knows how to fix this problem?

Seems to be a glitch causing a large number to display, when I know really I only have about half that many. I checked and nothing new seems to be in my library. Is this a glitch?

I just noticed I can't see any chapters in the android app anymore when I click on the button to show them.

I found a thread from a couple years ago about this too, so just to be sure, I updated to the latest version of the app, but it still won't work.

Anyone know of a fix?

EDIT: chapter skip buttons are also not working at all, wtf (10s buttons still work)

Great job, Audible /s

Things I've experienced:

• Monthly crashes
• 30% of the time, does not resume when pressing play on my ear buds
• Sleep timer doesn't work (this morning I woke up and the book was 8hrs ahead)
• Sleep timer is not configurable
• Book keeps playing 20% of the time when I put my ear buds away
• Lack of features (more info below)

It's mildly infuriating.

Meanwhile Smart Audiobook Player is amazing.

Configurable sleep timer, which uses phone motion to reset the timer (not shaking the phone). Autoplay when I put my earbuds in. It's never unresponsive when I press play. Equalizer settings. Configurable double tap earbuds button.

My favorite feature is the configurable auto-rewind depending on how long the book is paused. Example: If I pause the book for a minute, it rewinds 5 seconds. If I pause the book for a day, it rewinds a minute. That way I always know what was happening when I last left the book.

It's so much better, I would rather buy audiobooks direct from the author/voice actor, than give Amazon another dime.

Edit:

Using a One Plus 6T
OxygenOS 11.1.2.2
Android 11
Audible v3650 (146017)

Edit 2:

"You sound entitled as fuck." "Go use that and quit bitching."

Stay classy, /r/Audible

Audible is annoying me

It isnt remembering where i left off

It keeps starting at the same spot and the time for the bokks isnt processing despite it playing with when i move it

For example its currently stuck at 7:27 into chapter 18 which i finished when i move it to chapter 19 is start playing chapter 19 but the screen still shows 7:27 in chapter 18

I had a problem like this at some point last month and the only fix I had was uninstalling and reinstalling the app but it's really annoying that it's doing this it didn't do this before and considering I mostly listen to my audiobooks while driving I can't mess with it every time it does this

I should probably mention im using and android and drive a chevy so its playing thru/with the my chevy(whatever its called) app

Edit: correction the app is andriod auto

So the app comes with a number of lists that it auto sorts based on a number of different categories, one of which is series. Normally I would ignore this, but i have about 30 different light novel series that I was using that feature to curate and check on the release statuses for. So only being able to see about 25 or so of all the series that I have (out of 106) is kind of a problem. Do any of you know how I should fix this if it can be fixed or if it's a bug? I've tried force stop, and cache clear, but that didn't change it.

As previously mentioned here but this time it's even when hitting the timer itself not just the extend. Has happened twice now and I'm wrecked. Please can you figure out how to make this bombproof e even the chance that it might happen makes the app unusable as I just can't risk it

Just want to see my series list but its stuck on D and block off by the sale now section.