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I've been searching and searching and can't seem to find an answer to this question. 

 

Is it possible to set up multiple Spotify accounts and assign the different accounts to different voices within a household? 

 

I know it's possible to add multiple Spotify accounts to the SONOS system and then choose which Spotify account you want to use by using the sonos app to control playback.

 

What I want to do is link the accounts to voices so that if, for example, I say "alexa, play Fleetwood Mac", the system knows to use my Spotify account because it recognises my voice. Then if my wife is in another room and says "Alexa, play Quantic", it will play Quantic using her Spotify account.

 

At the moment this doesn't happen - sonos will always use my account for Spotify if using voice assist to start any music. 

 

This can also be troublesome if I'm listening to Spotify in the car. If my wife is at home and asks alexa to play music, sonos will use my Spotify account in the house and stop playback for me in the car. 

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As far as I know that won’t work, because Alexa and Sonos Voice Control and probably Google Assistant too do not support multiple Music Services or Accounts of one Service as standard service. There imo due to technical reasons just can be one account as standard for the voice assistant. You just can use also other music services next to the standard one by adding their name at the end of your voice command. But you can’t add multiple accounts of one service to Alexa & Co. 

I don’t know if anything’s changed in 4 years but if not then it’s not possible immediately(*. In this thread there’s a workaround by separating certain Sonos speakers to their own network and associating Amazon/Spotify to that. And then putting the rest of the speakers on another similarly. I don’t know how convenient that would in effect be especially now that the current app still struggles using/switching between multiple systems. (And if all's working ok I wouldn’t tempt fate by factory resetting etc.)

  

 

I suspect you use Alexa via amazon’s devices or on older Sonos devices(?)

I understood that you have two separate Spotify accounts showing up in the Sonos app music services(?)

If your Sonos device supports Sonos Voice Control, could one workaround be to add that and then associate your wife’s Spotify account to that as preferred service? Then you’d use “Hey Sonos, play …” when wanting to play through your wife’s account, and “Alexa, ...” when yours. 

 

I realise it’s not ideal but could that set up work?

 

I nowadays use Sonos Voice Control more instead of Alexa. (Only use Alexa when I want to start certain Sonos Radio station because Sonos Voice Control plays the wrong one.)

 

https://support.sonos.com/fi-fi/article/list-of-voice-requests-for-sonos-voice-control

https://support.sonos.com/en-us/article/control-sonos-with-sonos-voice-control

 

*) Edit: 

From the below article:

“Alexa doesn’t let you do that, but it should be possible for you to create multiple Alexa profiles within an Amazon Household and have every individual Alexa profile linked with the corresponding Spotify account. You will then have to remember to switch Alexa profiles when using voice commands to avoid interrupting each other’s playback.”

https://community.spotify.com/t5/Android/Playing-spotify-on-sonos-and-alexa-from-different-phones-logged/td-p/5628357

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