Napster with Alexa

Need Napster to work with Sonos 1

Please add Napster and Apple Music too

But it was Sonos' decision to throw away all the work to support any and all music services, a feature that remains unique to their hardware, and hand total control over which services would be supported to Amazon. Amazon also control the speech grammar entirely too (which is why we don't have group volume, or groups generally).

Yes, that was the decision so they would not have to force users to run a local server, say clunky commands, and suffer the non-intelligent responses inherent to a "tell Sonos to do xxx" type of skill. Instead they made a less amateur, more integrated interface utilzing Amazon's API. Perhaps you'd like to compare sales figures to see what approach is more popular?

Sonos has always had the ability to play music from multiple sources including locally stored music. That was one of the biggest selling points. Multiple sources, different rooms, one source perfectly synced in multiple rooms. The possibilities were endless and Sonos seemed to lead from the front.

Nobody forced us to run a local server but if we wanted to listen to our locally stored music we accepted it and got on with it. I'm one of the users who was given a free 6 month napster trial which has worked flawlessly, for many years, with sonos, and is cheaper than the other streaming services so I'm certainly not going to sign up to Amazon (who appear to want to control the world). Sonos, rather than making us run a server want us to pay a third party? Sorry, but I decide who gets my money. As for the clunky commands, the app is now clunky and Alexa's skills are massively restricted which makes it quite useless, so this seems like a massive step backwards for me.

There are sales on right now, Sonos Plays are on offer with a massive discount, I am so disappointed with the Sonos One that I certainly wont be buying any more speakers until Sonos return to what they are good at, provide a way to play various music streams from various places to various speakers. Add in the dubious marketing ploy of controlling your music through voice only when it works for all or drop Alexa and develop their own AI.

Rather than compare sales figures, maybe compare the amount of customers who feel cheated by the all singing, all dancing Sonos One with Alexa against those who bought a Sonos Play 1 and found it worked right out of the box.

Sigh.

But it was Sonos' decision to throw away all the work to support any and all music services, a feature that remains unique to their hardware, and hand total control over which services would be supported to Amazon. Amazon also control the speech grammar entirely too (which is why we don't have group volume, or groups generally).

I would also like to have Napster controlled by Alexa.

Will Alexa be able to work with Napsterditto x many

I was actively encouraged by Sonos to use Napster as it was offered free for 6 months on Sonos purchases, so it’s a bit out of order for Sonos not to have this platform available for use with Alexa. Be nice for Sonos to reply to this thread, even just to tell us it’s not gonna happen

I wrote to napster a couple of weeks ago by using the "Give us feedback" function in the app, and they told me that they are not planning to offer a skill for napster. Since I would like to use napster with alexa on my Sonos speakers too, I would suggest that everybody who is posting here should better write to napster instead. Maybe we only have to bug them enough to be heard.

when will Sonos work with Napster - as above when I bought Sonos I was given a 6 month free trail with Napster - 3 years on and I am hooked - I dont want to move to Spotify as its a poor platform - appreciate its the biggest and there are so many hours in a day - but can you give an ETA on when Napster will be supported? otherwise its premium music platform apartheid and not fair!!!

Accessing Sonos/Napster via Alexa was THE reason I bought the Echo. Please add Napster!!! Thanks.

Please, please provide compatibility with Napster otherwise I will not be investing in Alexa.

Likewise have used napster since day 1 and have always raved about it. Since getting Alexa I have tried Amazon but can only play on one speaker at a time (I have 7 so this doesn't work for me). Spotify is rubbish as has a really poor list search, and when music is added to "your music" you can only display by album i.e. no Artist search! Napster is great and works exactly how it should - please can you get the Alexa support running? For me I am now disappointed by my One and Alexa is being relegated to being a gimmic - such a shame for what I thought would be a great feature.