Audible and AudioSilo keep your listening place in step, both ways

From version 2.6.0, your server’s Bridge can keep your place in step between the Audible app and AudioSilo, both ways. Listen on Audible and your AudioSilo place moves on; listen in AudioSilo and the Audible app picks up where you stopped.

It’s off until an admin turns it on for an Audible account. It moves places only: listening on Audible never shows up in your AudioSilo history, stats or the server’s activity.

What it needs

• Server 2.6.0 or later with a Bridge paired and online, on Bridge 0.6.0 or later. Update the two together.
• Your Audible account signed in on the Bridge, on its own page: see Bridge accounts. Your server never sees your Amazon password.
• The Audible module turned on in the console’s Server > Settings > Modules. It starts off.
• Sync turned on for the account, as below. It’s off for every account until you do.

To turn sync on:

1. Open Server > Settings > Bridge.
2. On the Audible accounts card, open Account settings… for the account.
3. Tick Sync listening places with Audible and press Save.

Each account syncs for the person it belongs to, and only for that account’s books on your server, whether backed up by the Bridge or already in your library.

How places move

	From Audible to AudioSilo	From AudioSilo to Audible
When	Every 15 minutes, and straight away when you turn sync on	About 3 to 4 minutes after you stop (your place must stay put for 3 minutes)
What wins	Only a place further on than yours comes across	Sent as it is, even if you went back a chapter, unless Audible has a newer place further on

A place from Audible never moves yours back. One from before you finished the book or restarted it in AudioSilo is ignored too. Your playback speed stays as it is, and a place at the very end on Audible marks the book finished.

The player offers an Audible place like any other device’s: “On Audible (Chris (US)) you were at … Jump there?”. The device is named after the account, such as Audible (Chris (US)).

When sync first starts, only places you changed in the last 10 minutes go to Audible. The rest go the next time you listen to those books.

Leaving a book out

Don’t sync on a title in Server > Settings > Audible keeps that book out of the sync, both ways. The title shows Not synced, and Sync again undoes it. The book stays on your server as before.

A book whose length on Audible is quite different from yours (usually a different recording matched by title) doesn’t sync either, and nor does a place past the end of the book.

When it stops

The account’s Sync row on the Audible accounts card says when it last synced, or why it stopped:

It says	What to do
Audible refused the account	Press Sign in again on the Bridge’s Accounts tab
The account was given to someone else	Sync turns off; turn it on again for the new person
The account’s library was deleted	Choose another library for the account on the Bridge

Good to know

• Known limitation in Bridge 0.6.0: the Audible app can still resume at an older place after the Bridge reported sending yours. The Bridge doesn’t yet re-send your place when Audible overwrites it.
• When Audible is busy, sync waits as long as Audible asks and retries by itself.
• A disabled or kid account gets no sync until you choose someone else for the account on the Bridge.
• The Bridge’s setup checklist says when an account isn’t syncing, and its Jobs list shows each run as Syncing places with Audible.
• No backup needed. A book you already had, matched to the Audible title, syncs too. To back up the books themselves, see Back up your Audible books straight into your AudioSilo library or How to back up your Audible library.

More

Syncing listening places in the docs covers it in full, with Don’t sync this book and When it stops. For listeners, Playback explains how a place from another device reaches the player.