Petition to Add Local Library Playback to Alexa/Sonos Voice Control
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Let's let Sonos know we would like this feature added. We've all spent years cultivating music we own, and we'd like to listen to it using the new voice control feature that Alexa has added. Thanks!
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I am not sure whether to use the term 'petition', 'demand', or 'beg' for this functional option. In my mind it is at the heart of being a Sonos users; you create content, and you listen to it across your Sono's speakers. If your intent is to buy a Sonos One and manage your Sonos playlist, the product is currently not capable of doing that.
Let's be clear here for those who are either using a Sono's One or working with Alexa through a standard bot, the roll out of the product under the marketing message of "control your music with Alexa" is borderline fraudulent; at a minimum disappointing and should require much clearer details explained in full. If you are buying from a retailer, i.e. Best Buy, they have no idea what is can and cannot do across your musical libraries. You need to come to this site to be clear on what you can and cannot do.
There are many types of Sonos users out there, so, it is unfair of me to say I speak for a large number of users. But I know quite a few people, including myself, that really enjoy and have enjoyed the Sonos experience. A large part of the user base are are passionate about music and the specific music content we create, listen to, and share with our families/others. If this is your profile as a user, here is my take on the Sonos One:
1) You cannot control your Sonos library with Alexa, either through a Sonos One or the Alexa app or bot. That is a huge miss for me as a user as I spend quite a bit of time working with music libraries and specific music lists/content.
2) If your primary music service or source is Spotify, Alexa can and certainly at times will, struggle with Spotify playback. Technically you can get it to play your playlists by enabling Spotify music services on the Alexa app, but, at least for me and others I know, it often drops the Spotify link, causing you to have to re-enable the Spotify feed, or in some cases send everything back to factory settings, and then enabling again. Get use to this type of loop. The apparent answer for the Spotify trouble is.....
3) for Alexa to promote Amazon Music Service to deliver the content you seek. It is cleanly integrated with AMS and can pull up your lists, and or deploy genre or mood style playlists for you based on your input. I think it will really help AMS attain new users of there services. But make no mistakes, Alexa wants to take you there as often as she can. If you are like me and have spent extensive time creating both Spotify and Sono's playlists, your playback experience is poor for Spotify and non-existent for Sonos playlists.
The value that Alexa brings is that it can play, pause, adjust volume, skip a song, repeat etc. Things that I usually do from the phone application. So if you are a heavy phone app fan, a heavy Sonos playlist user, and a Spotify source user, there is very little value in Alexa - at this time.
Others may feel differently, and really enjoy the basic commands - and if I was an Amazon Music Service user, I might feel different. But for me this is the first time I've purchased a Sonos product and given it a thumbs down.
gbd
Let's be clear here for those who are either using a Sono's One or working with Alexa through a standard bot, the roll out of the product under the marketing message of "control your music with Alexa" is borderline fraudulent; at a minimum disappointing and should require much clearer details explained in full. If you are buying from a retailer, i.e. Best Buy, they have no idea what is can and cannot do across your musical libraries. You need to come to this site to be clear on what you can and cannot do.
There are many types of Sonos users out there, so, it is unfair of me to say I speak for a large number of users. But I know quite a few people, including myself, that really enjoy and have enjoyed the Sonos experience. A large part of the user base are are passionate about music and the specific music content we create, listen to, and share with our families/others. If this is your profile as a user, here is my take on the Sonos One:
1) You cannot control your Sonos library with Alexa, either through a Sonos One or the Alexa app or bot. That is a huge miss for me as a user as I spend quite a bit of time working with music libraries and specific music lists/content.
2) If your primary music service or source is Spotify, Alexa can and certainly at times will, struggle with Spotify playback. Technically you can get it to play your playlists by enabling Spotify music services on the Alexa app, but, at least for me and others I know, it often drops the Spotify link, causing you to have to re-enable the Spotify feed, or in some cases send everything back to factory settings, and then enabling again. Get use to this type of loop. The apparent answer for the Spotify trouble is.....
3) for Alexa to promote Amazon Music Service to deliver the content you seek. It is cleanly integrated with AMS and can pull up your lists, and or deploy genre or mood style playlists for you based on your input. I think it will really help AMS attain new users of there services. But make no mistakes, Alexa wants to take you there as often as she can. If you are like me and have spent extensive time creating both Spotify and Sono's playlists, your playback experience is poor for Spotify and non-existent for Sonos playlists.
The value that Alexa brings is that it can play, pause, adjust volume, skip a song, repeat etc. Things that I usually do from the phone application. So if you are a heavy phone app fan, a heavy Sonos playlist user, and a Spotify source user, there is very little value in Alexa - at this time.
Others may feel differently, and really enjoy the basic commands - and if I was an Amazon Music Service user, I might feel different. But for me this is the first time I've purchased a Sonos product and given it a thumbs down.
gbd
I'm in. Sonos, please add this feature!
Me too, please get this working
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