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ultimaterowdy
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December 19, 2017
Question

A Sonos One in each kid's room... working via voice command from one Spotify account?

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I have a couple Sonos One's showing up tonight. I'm hoping to put one in each of my kids' rooms (ages 7 & 10), and they'll be able to voice command their way through Spotify content, from a single Spotify account. Explore music! (I was thinking of printing them out sheets of recommendations... albums to explore with explicit voice commands to play them.) I know this should work via Sonos App (I can ask multiple Sonos speakers to play different albums via single Spotify account). But the kids don't have "devices" (like phone or tablet)... so... will it--different Spotify content playing on two Sonos One's--work via the voice commands invoking a single Spotify account (which come, I expect, via Amazon/Alexa). Has anyone tried this by chance? If I get no response, I'll try to return to this thread with my experiences. Thank you!!
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UKMedia
UKMedia
December 19, 2017
You can't at this moment in time have Voice initiated music playing on multiple Sonos devices via Spotify.
Remember: Sometimes Red Wine helps :)
ultimaterowdyAuthor
Contributor I
December 19, 2017
Thanks UKMedia. We are Amazon Prime customers, and I own have a number of albums on Amazon Music as well. I wonder if I could set one Sonos One to default to Amazon Music, and the other default to Spotify? They could still invoke the "other" music service, and still bicker about who has the spotify spigot at any one time... but perhaps this approach could minimize the bickering. Thoughts?
UKMedia
UKMedia
December 19, 2017
The default music source is a system setting as far as I'm aware, unless you create two Sonos and 2 Amazon accounst for each of your children.
Remember: Sometimes Red Wine helps :)
Chris
Chris
Lead Maestro
December 19, 2017
If you setup the 2 play Ones on different Alexa accounts (have each with their own account) then you could setup each with different Spotify family member account.

If you set them both up as the same alexa account then they will only see the one family member account on Spotify that you have setup in the Alexa app.
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jasonpka20
Contributor I
December 19, 2017
you are able to set up separate amazon accounts and link them. However prime music is not shareable so you’d essentially just have to specify to Alexa whose account you are using. https://www.amazon.com/gp/help/customer/display.html?nodeId=200444180
Chris
Chris
Lead Maestro
December 19, 2017
But the poster said they are using Spotify not Amazon for music.
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ultimaterowdyAuthor
Contributor I
December 19, 2017
Rock Star Chris ... that sounds like a good option. I can spring for family member account on Spotify. Is there some pre-work I should do, before unboxing the two Sonos Ones? Or do you think that the Sonos One set up flow will naturally allow me to set up unique Alexa accounts, eg? I wonder if I'll be able to set up multiple Alexa accounts if I'm just using my phone to help set things up. maybe it's weird to not have a unique mobile device associated with each Alexa account? (One thing I definitely *can* do is upgrade my Spotify to family account. but, anything else you suggest?)
jasonpka20
Contributor I
December 19, 2017
You can just log out of the app and log in with the other credentials. I set up my wife’s and mine in the same phone. Also just we aware that each Alexa device will duck the music in each. And also the music playing in the rest of the house.
Chris
Chris
Lead Maestro
December 19, 2017
Sonos Ones don't come with specific amazon account pre-loaded. So as long as you setup 2 amazon account before setup you should be fine. Login and setup one in your alexa app. Then logout in alexa app and login and create 2nd.
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ultimaterowdyAuthor
Contributor I
December 20, 2017
You can just log out of the app and log in with the other credentials. I set up my wife’s and mine in the same phone. Also just we aware that each Alexa device will duck the music in each. And also the music playing in the rest of the house.

What does this mean, to "duck the music in each" ?? thank you!
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