Some easy reading to perhaps shed some light.
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Just finished Bel Canto by Ann Patchett. A romance in the Shakespearean sense, set during a rebel takeover of a government residence (in a fictional Peru), which deals with, among other things, the magic of music.
Listening to the BBC Radio 4 dramatisation on Audible via Sonos.
Wonder why Audible is only available on Sonos?
I have an Audible app on my iPhone.
Yes, but the only streamer system which offers Audible as a service is Sonos
Well, Amazon owns Audible. I guess they want to keep the business to themselves. It is a different marketing model
Effective marketing would surely be to provide more outlets for the subscription model. It works of course with Alexa. Sonos provides the widest list of services of all the audio streamers, including BBC Sounds, etc.
I guess Jeff disagrees.
A minor actor, but interesting for me because he was married to my mother’s cousin. Mum went out to Australia (Sydney) to visit back in the ‘90s.
Vince celebrated his 101st birthday at the end of last year. The year before, around his 100th, a local TV station featured him as part of a sequence of “Centenarian Aussies”. Vince was on top form, and he and the interviewer ending up knocking back a glass of Shiraz!
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I guess the biggest challenge for streamers is to be able to use the Audible api to enable the seamless pick-up where the listener left off. This is critical for audiobook playback.
Essentially, I just use the android app with bluetooth audio to earpods - works a treat.
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Alas, poor Yorick. I knew him, Horatio.
Putting a different slant on an old scandal, the writer focuses on the lives of the women killed, treating them as human beings, not [just] victims.
steve
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Nearly 900 pages so I will be dipping in and out.
John Fordham’s kindly review from the Guardian has some interesting quotes.
Used… WOB.
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I like serialised radio productions , Christie, Sayers, Le Carre etc , buy them from Apple and then play them back via my ND5XS2 , with a Nait 50 and Harbeth speakers , superb
When I first bought my streamer it was just about the first thing I looked for to no avail
If you have them as CD , a BluRay player can do the same
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Audible is smart enough to pick up across devices. Play on android tablet, pick up on Sonos or ipad. Neat.
Never a fan of Audible. I have a few select purchases (e.g. Seamus Heaney reading his poetry), but I like to be able to go back and forth - review something I read 50 pages ago. My Kindle is very good for that. I also like looking at my library - collected over 50+ years - and picking up a book at random from time to time.
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I’m not a fan of audible either; but I have a cd / rip of Under Milk Wood that I listen to once in a while when I need a Burton fix.