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Asking Alexa to play music
Howdy, I keep learning more about the Sonos One and using Alexa and I keep getting confused about what can actually be done with Alexa and what can't!
I would like to be able to just tell Alexa to play my music. Music I've bought over the years, CDs and downloads, that are now stored electronically. I'm not too bothered about streaming other music and certainly don't want to be stuck paying for a subscription service.
How best to achieve this?
Initially I thought I'd get the Sonos One and a NAS and could ask Alexa to "Play The Who in the living room" and the Sonos would access the NAS and start playing. I've since heard that this will not work. You have to start the music using the Sonos app and then you can use Alexa to skip tracks or change volume etc. But she won't initiate play.
So, streaming service is the way to go. According to the FAQs on here Sonos works with Amazon Music, Google Play music and a few others. However I've since learned that Alexa will, again, not initiate playback with most streaming services including Google Play. Alexa does work with Amazon Music but the free version only allows 250 songs and that seems to be closing down at the end of the month.
Is there any way to get Alexa to initiate playback of my music without having a subscription service? e.g. Say "Alexa, play The Who" etc and Alexa finds my music, stored locally or on the cloud (free) and initiate playback?
Hmm, the Cloud... does Sonos and Alexa work with music stored on Dropbox or any similar services?
Thanks for your help.
Wag
I would like to be able to just tell Alexa to play my music. Music I've bought over the years, CDs and downloads, that are now stored electronically. I'm not too bothered about streaming other music and certainly don't want to be stuck paying for a subscription service.
How best to achieve this?
Initially I thought I'd get the Sonos One and a NAS and could ask Alexa to "Play The Who in the living room" and the Sonos would access the NAS and start playing. I've since heard that this will not work. You have to start the music using the Sonos app and then you can use Alexa to skip tracks or change volume etc. But she won't initiate play.
So, streaming service is the way to go. According to the FAQs on here Sonos works with Amazon Music, Google Play music and a few others. However I've since learned that Alexa will, again, not initiate playback with most streaming services including Google Play. Alexa does work with Amazon Music but the free version only allows 250 songs and that seems to be closing down at the end of the month.
Is there any way to get Alexa to initiate playback of my music without having a subscription service? e.g. Say "Alexa, play The Who" etc and Alexa finds my music, stored locally or on the cloud (free) and initiate playback?
Hmm, the Cloud... does Sonos and Alexa work with music stored on Dropbox or any similar services?
Thanks for your help.
Wag