topic Re: Chapters lost in Android

Chapters lost

Stefan180380 — Wed, 13 Sep 2017 13:53:42 GMT

Dear community, I have a problem with an audio book. Since the last week I hear Ernest Cline-Ready player one. It has about 210 chapters. Yesterday I heard chapter 171,everything OK. Today in the morning I wanted to hear again but there are still 73 chapters. Not more. After chapter 73 there is nothing. It ends in the story. There wasn't an update overnight or something else. I deleted the playlist, deleted the cache and the datas. I used the searching function and found nothing. Only the first 73 chapters. Has anyone an idea what went wrong? Stefan

Re: Chapters lost

Joe — Wed, 13 Sep 2017 18:51:33 GMT

I checked this using the desktop client. This audiobook consists of three discs and for some reason the publishers have only made the first disc available on spotify which is why you can only listen to the first 73 parts. If you enable the setting "show unplayable tracks" you can see this for yourself.

Re: Chapters lost

Stefan180380 — Wed, 13 Sep 2017 19:18:15 GMT

Hey Joe!

Thank you for your support. I checked it on my phone in the settings. You're right. I`m a little bit sad, because I was near the final chapters and it was such a great book... So... We can't do anything... Thanks to the publishers...;)

Re: Chapters lost

ChrisLang — Thu, 14 Sep 2017 14:28:54 GMT

I'm not really into this solution.

I heard some EBooks lately and all the tracks were available.

But now nearly every Ebook I marked for listening lacks about half of it's tracks, so this is not a problem of a single book. It seems kind of systmeatic, but what is the intention of Spotify?
I can understand that offering half of an music album is better than offer nothing of an artist - but what do I have from half of an ebook?

And why the **bleep** can't spotify inform about such a massive change?

Re: Chapters lost

Joe — Thu, 14 Sep 2017 19:36:07 GMT

If this has recently affected a bunch of audiobooks, contact spotify direct to see what they have to say.

Re: Chapters lost

Ratistomba — Thu, 14 Sep 2017 21:50:54 GMT

Same problem here:

https://open.spotify.com/album/4LBi1oy064KsqsmCdROVp6

Träumende Leere (Ungekürzt)

Peter F. Hamilton

Audiobook has 399 tracks - only 200 can be played.

Extremely frustrating...

And thanks for the post - I can finally stop searching for the problem.

Ready Player One -> don't miss the end. 😉