Amazon Alexa and Sonos

I bought an echo show and absolutely love it's voice capabilities to play music. Unfortunately, it seems limited to only play files from services which do not support lossless (e.g. flac files). I want to direct the music to play to a stereo system for better sound quality (I have a mcintosh amp and PSB speakers). I figured out a way to play locally stored files mp3 files over bluetooth to a toslink connector on my dac, and that sounds pretty darn good... But I want to play locally stored flac files. Someone said that sonos has a device that has digital out that might work? I also have heard about using skill "HEADBAND" with jriver, and haven't tried that yet (actually tried but failed, but i am sure i probably just need to configure my firewall/router), and I heard ROON is working on a method, but wondering if there is any tried and working methods YET?? IS THERE ANY WAY KNOWN TO PLAY LOCALLY STORED FLAC FILES TO A REGULAR STEREO SYSTEM CONTROLLED BY ALEXA?

Hi, I was able to set up my connection with Alexa and Sonos, and I can use Alexa to start playing music without any issues. However, once the music starts, I have two issues: 1. I cannot stop the music. 2. the music stops playing after a single song. For example, if I say "Alexa, play the Beatles in the living room", music will start up on the Sonos system. However, if I ask her to stop the music ("Alexa, stop the music in the living room," "Alexa, pause the music in the living room"), she dims the sound of the Sonos speakers, responds with "I can change the playback mode only when music is playing" and then raises the volume of the living room again. When first requested to play music, Alexa responds with something like, "Shuffling popular songs by the Beatles in the Living Room." However, she stops playing after a single song, every time, no matter what the playlist. If I play the same playlist through the sonos app, it keeps playing. I'm not sure what the issue is, si

Hello, I have a failure with discovering my Sonos One in the Alexa App. The Sonos skill is enabled and linked to my account. I live in Belgium but my account is changed to US .... (Sonos and Alexa App) When i press discover, i always get an error after 1 second. Who can help me?

Just purchased Sonos One and Alexa working well with radio and Amazon Music. But Alexa can't find a specific artist from the music library though I can play the artists through the Sonos from the library on the Sonos app. I loaded the music library from Windows PC using the load 'music file' instruction and it has copied all in C: Music\iTunes. I have tried copying individual artist files from the iTunes file on my PC to the music library but I get an error message saying that my PC refused Sonos to connect to it (even though the music file was copied!). Where am I going wrong?

After hearing the sound quality on Sonos speakers on a friends system, i was impressed. After seeing that the Play 1 was Alexa capable, I bought a pair. Was so excited when they arrived, but quickly came down to earth when I discovered that they don’t link with Alexa in a way that allows her voice to actually play through the speaker. Whether or not this advertising is deceptive isnt even my main beef at this point... I did more reading, and after seeing that the Sonos One does allow Alexa to play through, I forked over another couple hundred and bought one of these. I was aware of the incompatibility issues regarding stereo pairing with my Play 1s, but decided I could live with that. What i cant live with is how poorly the microphone responds to Alexa voice commands. More often than not, i have to face the speaker and raise my voice even though Im only 5 feet away. Meanwhile my Echo Dot in the bedroom, and around the corner is hearing me just fine. I spent most of my day yesterd

My Sonos One arrived this morning, I've unplugged my Echo and setup the One in it's place ready for use. I've upgraded to 8.1 Problems.... - You cannot change the wake word from Alexa. - Music does not play. I say "Alexa, Play some UB40", Alexa confirms and says it is playing but no sound comes out. - Other non Sonos skills don't work e.g. Hue. If I say "Alexa, turn on the Hall lights", Alexa says that the hall is not responding. This works fine from the Echo when plugged back in. - The white light on the unit does not turn off when you disable it in the settings - With the Echo plugged back in I say, "Play UB40 in the Kitchen" I either get "Shuffling songs by UB40 in the kitchen, something went wrong" or "Cannot find songs by 'UB40 in the kitchen' " :) Anyone else have issues like this?

after speaking with Amazon Canada they have informed me that there is NO eta on the Sonos Skill for Echo.... why the delay !!

Hi folks, Looking to get Amazon Alexa remote towork with my Sonos ones. Anyone done this and did it work ok? Thanks, Mark.

I have an echo dot and spot and Sonos playbar5.1 (playbar, speakers and sub). Usually it works fine to say “Alexa set volume 2 on living room”. Living room being the name of the playbar setup. However Alexa will also often respond w two different responses upon receiving the above command. 1st response is “living room doesn’t support that”. And. 2nd response which I received multiple times today (for the first time) is “living room is not responding”. I may have fixed the second response by manually changing the playbar volume using the tv remote however the issue may occur again since I don’t know why it happened. In regards to the first response I don’t understand why sometimes the volume will change and other times not. I try very hard to state the command exactly the same each time I say it. Also I am the only inhabitant of the household so there is not an issue of different voices/persons giving the command. Anyone experience the same or have a solution?

Our family has been using Alexa/Echo since it’s beta trial about 3 years ago and we have about 6 units. So we had to get #sonosone. However, sonosone does not respond to Alexa commands as effectively as Echo. Either we have to get close to it or yell for it to respond. The unit is sitting on kitchen counter where we had Echo previously. Looking for feedback on how to get our sonosone working as effectively as our old Echo. Thank you

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Is it possible to use Alexa voice command to synch with a Spotify streaming playlist, so that you can say "play songs by eminem" ??? I have it set up so you can start sootify pause, , and skip songs currently.

I want to use my SONOS speakers for playback of Echo Dot results. For example, when I ask Alexa, "Alexa, what are today's headlines?" instead of the results playing on the Echo Dot's crummy speaker, I would like the results to play on my SONOS speakers. Any way to make this work?

Before Christmas I was able to start Deezer playing from my phone and tell Alexa to play next song. Now she says she can only change playback mode when music is playing. Why has it lost this ability and can anyone help me get it back please?

Due to WiFi interference in my home causing problems with my Sonos speaker system I added a Sonos Boost. This worked very well in improving the stability and availability of my speakers. It did, however, break the integration with Alexa. Alexa can no longer see my speakers. The Alexa device discovery doesn't work. I'm guessing it's because when using the Sonos Boost the speakers appear in my router connected devices table as hardwired, not a wireless device. My system consists of 5 Play 1's, 1 Subwoofer and 1 Boost. Alexa voice control worked fine with these speakers before the switch to the Boost. Is there a workaround for this that will allow Alexa to see them? If not, I hope that others have reported this and Sonos is working on a solution.

I've tried linking the Alexa Sonos skill to my account and the Skill points me in the direction of "More/Settings/My Sonos Account" in the Sonos app. It then asks me to confirm my email which i do and also sends an email in which there is a link to Create New Password (which isnt what i want to do). I click on that and it takes me back to My Sonos Account where i start all over again. Any thoughts anyone? Cheers

I've been trying to add Alexa and have not been able to by following the prompts on the Sonos app. I get to the screen that says "Steps to set up Alexa" - then hit the "connect your amazon account" and then I get an error saying "There was a problem adding Alexa. Any clues on how to solve this?

I have a 3 story townhome with multiple Sonos, Play 1(2), Sound bar, amps, Play 3 etc. on different floors and I use Amazon Echo on the floors too. I do have a son that lives with me and was using an Amazon Echo at night to play a fan sound (white noise) at night to reduce any noise he may hear when I get up. I bought him a Sonos Play 1 for Christmas to use for this purpose plus to listen to music etc in his bedroom. I have read that when we use the Echo dot in my room to turn off/on lights etc, it reduces the volume of the one in his room (phrase is ducking I have learned). In deciding on how to resolve this issue, since I usually am up for work at 4:30am, taking dogs out etc, I thought I could setup a guest network on my Eero system and he could connect his to that network and it would stop the ducking. The Sonos play 1 will not connect to it at all. So it's a secondary network on the same router. Not sure if the issue is the Sonos or it's the network. Is this at all possible? We

As the title states, have recently purchased a sonos one with the added Alexa voice services. But whenever I try to use Alexa to play music through Spotify it keeps saying that it’s not supported, have looked at similar threads and tried all the steps they list but still can’t get it work. My Spotify account is a premium family account. Any help will be much appreciated Kind regards

I have bar, two ones and sub connected to new Samsung TV. When listening to music and tv off I continue to get a loud pop noise periodically. Any ideas how to correct or what cause? I may return system if can't resolve as very annoying.

i deregistered my device on my sonos one through the alexa app thinking it would then allow me to register it on a different one, now it skips over the amazon sign in and auto connects to my old acoount-EVEN THO ITS DEREGISTERED- and i cant figure out how to change it....

After creating a list through Alexa on SonosOne, can Alexa text or email the list to another device?

I wanted to get a answer to a couple of questions I have with the Sonos/Echo/Dot integration: I already have an Echo which is currently in the bedroom and am thinking of expanding the home system to include my current home cinema system, 2 other Play 1's and possible another Dots/Echo, but am unsure of the setup. Will I be able to setup a home system that comprises of Echo's and Play 1's that are assigned to specific rooms, will they function the same as if I just has Play 1's in each room? Do I need a Sonos Connect to add my home cinema into the system, or can I just add a dot to it now and have that connect it into it? (Dot connected to the Amp?) Any help appreciated

First of all this is not a request to support grouping sonos with sonos speakers for particular rooms, rather this is a request or an inquiry to find out if there are any plans (or rather that there should be plans) to support "grouping" of Alexa Echo Speakers with Sonos Speakers. In my opinion, if the desire is to be truely agnostic of AI (Alexa, Google Home, Siri, etc.) then supporting other speakers (third parties or by Amazon, Google, or Apple) in unison is a must. If i am sonos owner it is obvious i want to use more sonos products together because they are truly sound (no pun intended) and quality speakers, however if I want an AI in my house (alexa for instance) i want it to be supported everywhere even if i invested in an Alexa Echo Plus (for instance). If you only allow to have Alexa control sonos and all Echo Speakers or other third party speakers are blocked away then you are seriously limiting the user as they will not be able to benefit from let's say buying an E

I can't get my windows laptop to transmit sound to the sonos 1. They are both hooked up to my wifi network and the network is 2.4gz.