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Alexa not finding music in my library

  • January 26, 2018
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My situation:
* 5 Echo Dots
* 5 rooms with SONOS speakers
* SONOS library stored on NAS drive
* Alexa unable to find music in my library
Help!!

Best answer by UKMedia

Hi

Alexa doesn't support the voice control of locally stored music. Your options are:

1/ Initiate the music from the Sonos App and then control via voice. e.g. Next, skip, repeat, etc.
2/ Use something like Plex or My Media

https://www.plex.tv/
https://www.mymediaalexa.com/
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UKMedia
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  • January 26, 2018
Hi

Alexa doesn't support the voice control of locally stored music. Your options are:

1/ Initiate the music from the Sonos App and then control via voice. e.g. Next, skip, repeat, etc.
2/ Use something like Plex or My Media

https://www.plex.tv/
https://www.mymediaalexa.com/

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  • Local Superstar
  • 2638 replies
  • January 26, 2018
Alexa cannot, yet, find music from your Local library. You can request Music from Spotify or Amazon music by name track etc but not yet from your local library. You can also play Tunein and Radioplayer stations via Alexa

You can control your local library music via Alexa once it is playing. So you can start an Album via the Sonos app and then ask alexa for next/previous, volume and pause.

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  • Contributor I
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  • January 26, 2018
Thanks guys - that's really helpful