Scotch_Brawth

Q: How do UK Audible account holders authorise iTunes 12.2+?

The Authorisation process redirects to the US Audible website, and there is no option to use the UK website.  UK credentials do not work on the US website, I've tried several times.  I've spoken to Audible Customer Services and spoke to someone whose knowledge of the matter was potato.  The Audible UK help centre doesn't offer a solution.  And, you can't simply change .com to .co.uk in the URL, I get a 404.

 

I can't sync a single audiobook to my iPhone until this clustercuss is solved.

MacBook Pro (15-inch Early 2011), OS X Mavericks (10.9.5), 256GB SSD, 8GB RAM

Posted on Oct 1, 2015 4:23 PM

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Q: How do UK Audible account holders authorise iTunes 12.2+?

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  • by TheCaffiend,Helpful

    TheCaffiend TheCaffiend Nov 10, 2015 3:58 PM in response to Scotch_Brawth
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    Nov 10, 2015 3:58 PM in response to Scotch_Brawth

    I had this problem as well but managed to get it to work eventually! This is based on using a username to login (not linked to an amazon account)...

     

    1. Download audiobook and try to play in iTunes... like you say it links to the US site (grrrr)

    2. Click on the 'login using a username' option at the bottom

    3. Copy the URL from the site it takes you to and paste into your text editor of choice

    4. Open up another browser window and go to the audible.co.uk webpage (if you're logged in log out and go to the page again)

    5. On this page again click the login using username option

    4. Copy the URL from this page and paste into the text editor... you should now have have all the info you need to generate the correct link!

    5. On the original URL change the following:

         - change each occurrence of audible.com to audible.co.uk (there should be two)

         - further on through the URL there should be a "openid.assoc_handle=amzn_audible_lap_us" change the "us" at the end to "uk"

         - finally just after this there is a bit that says "marketPlaceId=" followed by a 13 or 14 alphanumeric code, look in the second URL you copied and find the corresponding bit of code and copy and paste the marketPlaceId from that instead.

    6. Paste the URL back into your browser should take you to UK login window and then when you login select the "click to return" link

     

    Books should now play!

  • by gap641,

    gap641 gap641 Feb 15, 2016 8:30 PM in response to TheCaffiend
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    Feb 15, 2016 8:30 PM in response to TheCaffiend

    Thank you for taking the time to share this. It works perfectly.

  • by Tanja R,

    Tanja R Tanja R May 31, 2016 11:21 AM in response to TheCaffiend
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    May 31, 2016 11:21 AM in response to TheCaffiend

    Thank you soooo much. I have an account on the German version of audible and your solution worked for that as well. I'm so very grateful, and so is my son who can now listen to his books on his new ipod.

  • by Charlie_T67,

    Charlie_T67 Charlie_T67 Aug 21, 2016 4:51 AM in response to TheCaffiend
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    Aug 21, 2016 4:51 AM in response to TheCaffiend

    THANK YOU!!! I just had to migrate to a new iMac after the HDD on my previous one died, and iTunes was the most painful part of the process. First the authorisation of my iTunes account took about two restarts and logout-login attempts to fix, then I ran into the issue with the Audible UK issue. Unfortunately all Audible could recommend was checking that the iMac region be set correctly. That, of course, had no effect. Apple need to allow users to select which Audible store they need to authorise through!