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rubberduck
Renowned Enthusiast I
October 5, 2017

Alexa and voice control excuse to be forced into paying for renting music?

  • October 5, 2017
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It seems to me the wholealexa integration has been deliberately compromised to ensure the full feature set works only with streaming services and not with any purchased or owned media storage. What is sonos plan here? I did not purchase sonos to only be able to use Alexa for digital steaming services. It is already documented that amateur code has been out there before sonos spent nearly a year developing this version that has a far greater feature set than current. Including being able to use Alexa with local media. Why are sonos not making this feature available?
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    upstatemike
    October 5, 2017
    Alexa would need to access a copy of your local music index in order to respond to voice commands about it. The index stored on your Sonos players is not accessible to Alexa so where would this alternate copy of the index reside? On an additional piece of hardware that folks need to buy? From some cloud storage space that folks need to rent? I'm just not clear what Sonos is expected to do to provide this feature without creating an additional cost.

    How does Plex manage it? How did the amateur code manage to access it? If you have a nas it is already accessible without paying ANY cloud rent. Just another reason to force users to rent music.

    Plex requires a hardware server. The "amateur code" requires a hardware server. Do you want Sonos to provide a solution that requires folks to buy a hardware server? If there is enough demand they would probably do it. I'm guessing there isn't.
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    Chris
    Chris
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    October 5, 2017
    Sonos added voice because people wanted voice control. They have no vested interest in what you subscribe to. Keep using your controller and using your local library if that is what you wish. But you don’t stop progress b cause of.
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