Audiobooks - check remaining Listen Time

[FlyingTorterra]

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My Question or Issue

Is there a way to know how long you have spent listening to audiobooks, and to see how long you have left before it resets?

I would like to know so I don’t run out of listening hours mid chapter

[Maria]

Hey @puck123,

Thanks for the reply and for sharing your thoughts on this - we appreciate it!

We're always working on improving the app and its features. We'd recommend you post your suggestion in our Ideas Board, as we regularly take new ideas and feedback into consideration for future improvements. Here you can read more on how ideas work

If there's anything else, we're just a post away!

[Kelanndu]

There is no way of checking your hours with individual. I am certain I have not used my 15 hours as the current book I listen to on headphones around the house is only 5 hours and its only 2/3rds of the way through the book. Its the only book I have been listening too since the start of the new billing period and I always stop the book when I have finishing listening. I have spoken to Spotify and currently, there is no way for them to show a breakdown of where the hours go. Something is definitely not right here. Also the other users on the account do not use audiobook. I have highlighted it and hopefully they will work on giving users a breakdown of where these hours are going.

[andreastampehl]

(English is not my first language)

Hey, I'm here to see if there's a way to check where my 12 hours audiobook listen time went. I am pretty sure- not for the first time- that I haven't fully used them, but audiobooks are blocked now and the plan says I've used them.

I would like to check on that. Any chance?

[AlejaR]

Hey there @andreastampehl,

Thanks for posting here and welcome.

To answer your question, you can know how much audiobook listening time you have left by checking the steps mentioned by @Xenia or by giving a look at this article. Nonetheless, as per this moment, there's no specific way to check exactly where you expended your listening hours. 

You can give a look at the workaround mentioned by @Eni. We understand this is not ideal, so we'd recommend you post a suggestion about this in our Ideas board. Just for context, the Idea Exchange is a place where Spotify users can share their feedback in the form of ideas, to improve the Spotify experience for everyone. When posting suggestions there, make sure to follow our Ideas Exchange Guidelines.

Now, we'd like to add some further insights. Take into account that we count the audiobook listening time used based on each playback of an audiobook at normal speed. This means:

• If you re-listen to a book, or part of the book, your allocated audiobook listening time will continue to reduce as normal.
• If you listen to a 5-hour audiobook at 2x speed, even if you finish the audiobook in 2.5 hours, your audiobook listening time is reduced by 5 hours since that’s the length of the book at normal speed.

We hope you found this helpful. We're always here to help.