Audiobooks in other languages

[tokao]

I live in France but I am not french.

I would like to find English Audiobooks (and Spanish) 

You should develop a better search including the language choice for the audiobook.

[haligaliharun]

International living in NL currently. I read in many languages and I would like to be in control of what results I want to see and books suggested in which language. This forced localisation is so bad that it keeps me away from Spotify audiobooks and makes me continue searching and buying on Amazon that has great control over localisation switching options, btw.

[V3LoXy]

Always the same with these big companies pushing content based on region instead of the language you've selected or providing a way to select your preferences.

Added my vote, I don't need audiobooks in languages I do not speak.

[ciska_v]

Hi, I am from the Netherlands. I prefer English books over Dutch books. However, my audiobook search page sadly only shows Dutch novels. I would like a 'main' option (thus not as a separate filter that costs another step to use) to select the listening language for the books overview page. I do want to be able to easily switch, since, when I am with my 3 and 5 year olds, I do want to listen to Dutch books.

[marslimak]

Why are audiobooks set to regional language? In times of mass migration there is still no option top set preferred language of audiobooks on Spotify.
As a immigrant to The Netherlands i am not knowing this language enogh good to listen to audiobooks in Netherlands i could listen in my own language or English but theres no option to change that.

Best is, that my wife has the same settings and she has them in english only....
I am no tech IT guy but that looks like u need to do some work on that script/code.
It is 20th century app in 21st century, c'mon, change that finally and allow listeners to have choice, it's not like we don't pay for it.

[labillingham]

I have exactly the same problem!

[faehriss]

British person living in Finland long term and would also much prefer to see the full English language category, when I moved to Finland I lost access to books I had already started & I cannot understand enough Finnish for buying any books to be worth it for me. With the way Spotify is going with AI usage for areas that need human touch & forced localisation just to nickel and dime us all I'm heavily considering moving to another platform, even if I have to use a separate one for books & music each.

[maybeitsyou]

Quite possibly be waiting forever for this to pass. So silly. Don’t they know that people move and settle all over the world? 

[p-3qyarazw_vj]

this would would work equally well for music... add a tag that defines the language the song/book is written and be able to search on this. I'm Dutch, and there are many people here that do not speak or read Dutch but get their spotify content delivered in Dutch because the subscription is paid here. 

[Wubdor]

It's kind of insane to me that audiobooks are automatically in the language of the location, instead of an option in the audiobook itself. How did this feature launch without such an obvious option? Why is the account/app language not taken into account? Is it a licensing/rights issue or something?

[perivar]

I can only agree with other users. This makes the audiobook section semi-useless. Surely a filter by language should be expected.

If I can't access all books in a language due to location rights I can live with that, bust just clearly show me what I actually can access...