Our Chief Innovation Officer, Nick Millington, put a message together that was shared on the Sonos subreddit about Sonos 27mcp. I thought it would be valuable to share with the community here as well:
“I’m excited to share with this community that you can be among the first to try Sonos 27mcp.
It’s live now at https://mcp.ws.sonos.com/mcp
MCP is the standard for connecting real world software-controlled systems like Sonos to AI assistants like ChatGPT and Claude. It’s the mechanism that lets you enter “Group my Kitchen and Patio speakers and crank up the volume” into an AI assistant app, and have the right thing happen on Sonos.
I’ve been living with Sonos 27mcp for the last several months, and as a software developer spending a lot of time on my computer using prompt-based engineering tools, Sonos 27mcp has become my most convenient way to control Sonos. Without getting out of my flow I can tell my AI assistant to play or pause music, adjust volume, move music between my speakers, or (with their mobile apps) check up on what my Sonos system at home is doing and whether I left anything playing.
In keeping with our efforts to move more development of Sonos “out into the open” and expose ourselves to more feedback, earlier, we’re releasing Sonos 27mcp as part of our “early access” initiative. That means I’m exceptionally eager to hear your feedback on what’s working for you and not working, and looking forward to the conversation.
As you dig in to what’s on offer in early access, I do want to be transparent that we will encounter a bit of a tradeoff between comprehensive coverage of every Sonos feature and putting a lot of rarely used tools and description into the AI model’s context (which costs users latency and tokens), so that’s a tradeoff we’ll have to navigate together.
I also want to be candid that AI tools are still new to our Sonos Support team and possibly even some of our old pros here on r/sonos, and so we’re going to need to help one another build those skills as we get ready for a broader rollout and support a broader base of users.
Right now, you can add Sonos 27mcp as a custom connector in most AI Assistant apps using the URL above. I’ve done a post on the Sonos Tech Blog describing what’s in there that you can also read for all the details. I’m starting the submission process to the various “Connector Stores” later today.
Enjoy!”
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