How come Alexa can't play from the Apple Podcast skill on my Sonos smart speaker?
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Alexa can't play from Apple Podcast skill to Sonos
+1Best answer by Corry P
Currently, Apple Podcasts are not supported on Sonos
As an Amazon Echo (or similar) will use it’s Apple Podcast Skill to play podcasts, it just accesses your Apple account to play.
Alexa running on a Sonos device will ask Alexa servers (which parse your voice command) to pass a streaming link to the non-Alexa part of the speaker (the Sonos firmware), but as a Sonos device can’t access Apple Podcasts directly, the link doesn’t work and the speaker doesn’t play.
Essentially, Sonos is willing to play anything our music partners allow us to play. I would suggest you get in touch with Apple and give them some feedback on this matter - the more people who do so, they more likely they are to action such a change.
Similarly, Amazon decide what Skills are viable on 3rd-party devices running Alexa, such as Sonos speakers. Having said that, if Apple separate Apple Music and Apple Podcasts (and the two apps would suggest they do) a Sonos speaker would still need access to the Apple Podcast servers before Alexa’s Apple Podcast skill would work.
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+16Hi
- How does Alexa respond after saying the command?
- Does Alexa respond the same on other music Services?
- Did it work on the past or when did it start happening?
- Are there any changes made on the settings on the Alexa or Sonos App before this happened?
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+1Here is the answers to your questions:
- “you’ll need a connected accessory to play apple podcasts on this device”
- no, Pandora works fine
- never tried it before
- no changes
Thanks for the help!
+16Hi
I would like to recommend the following steps based on the order it is provided. Here is the complete guide on how to perform the steps below.
- Log out of ALL Amazon-related apps which are and not limited to the following. (Amazon Prime, Amazon Shopping, Amazon Alexa, etc.)
- Open the Amazon Alexa app and disable the Sonos Skill.
- De-register any Sonos product on the Alexa App.
- Open the Sonos App.
- Remove Alexa Voice service.
- Force close Sonos app.
- Force close the Alexa App.
- Reopen the Sonos App. Add Alexa as voice service.
- Open Alexa app Add Sonos as skill
- Register Sonos speaker
- Add music service.
- Test to check if it works.
- Submit a diagnostic to capture all information performed on the Sonos devices.
Let me know your thoughts with the advice above.
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I get the response “Apple Podcasts is not supported on this device” when I ask Alexa to play something on my Sonos One. I have a UK Alexa and Apple account. Should I try the steps above?
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I have an Echo Dot in another room which works fine with Apple Podcasts. I will try the above steps tomorrow and get back to you.
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+1I did all the requested steps and submitted the diagnostics. It didn’t change anything. Apple Podcasts still does not work, but other podcast Alexa skills do work.
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Let us know what you have in mind with the advice above.
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Same situation here “Apple Podcasts is not supported on this device”. It would really help during the pandemic to have it work. Thank you.
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Let us know what you have in mind with the advice above.
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I have the exact same issue with my brand new Sonos Move. The Apple Podcast skill works fine on my Echo Dot, but when I try the exact same Alexa command on the Sonos it fails with “Apple Podcasts is not supported on this device”. All the other Alexa commands I’ve tried on the Sonos work as expected, so this seems to be a issue with the Sonos/Alexa/Apple Podcast skill combination.
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Might this be a case that the Apple Podcast ‘skill’ is currently only designed to work on Amazon echo products only and is not available on 3rd Party Alexa ‘enabled’ speakers? There are quite a few ‘skills’ that do not work on 3rd party speakers, or so I thought.
There is a list of ‘initial’ compatible Alexa ‘skills’ that worked with Sonos here:
It was not however updated on any regular basis, so I’m not sure about the Apple Podcasts skill.
+18Currently, Apple Podcasts are not supported on Sonos
As an Amazon Echo (or similar) will use it’s Apple Podcast Skill to play podcasts, it just accesses your Apple account to play.
Alexa running on a Sonos device will ask Alexa servers (which parse your voice command) to pass a streaming link to the non-Alexa part of the speaker (the Sonos firmware), but as a Sonos device can’t access Apple Podcasts directly, the link doesn’t work and the speaker doesn’t play.
Essentially, Sonos is willing to play anything our music partners allow us to play. I would suggest you get in touch with Apple and give them some feedback on this matter - the more people who do so, they more likely they are to action such a change.
Similarly, Amazon decide what Skills are viable on 3rd-party devices running Alexa, such as Sonos speakers. Having said that, if Apple separate Apple Music and Apple Podcasts (and the two apps would suggest they do) a Sonos speaker would still need access to the Apple Podcast servers before Alexa’s Apple Podcast skill would work.
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