Can Alexa on Sonos One play music from the library on shared storage?

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May 11, 2018
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I can get it to stream via internet services but dont see a way to tell Alexa to play from my music library.

Music Library

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Best answer by jgatie

No. Alexa does not support local Sonos libraries at this time, but the CEO has stated it is something they are looking into. You can initiate play from the Sonos app and then use Alexa for controls like skip, previous, pause, resume, control volume, and even ask "what's playing on (room name)".

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melvimbe

Here's a list of available commands.

https://support.sonos.com/s/article/3514?language=en_US

Danny

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arobbo61

Lyricist II

Actually that for some reason ‘reaume’ Continued playing the radio on the echo and not the music that was paused from Sonos

melvimbe

Right. If you had something playing on the echo previously, you'll need to provide a 'target' so Alexa knows what stream you want to resume. Personally, I got myself into the habit of always using a target just to make sure. Unless I'm talking to a Beam or Sonos One.

Danny

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arobbo61

Lyricist II

Ok , might sound silly but how do I know what the target speaker is called ? In Sonos it’s called office (but the echo is also called office) so how do I determine which office to resume ??

melvimbe

You should rename one of them. My personal recommendation is to rename the echo to "office echo". Not the best name, but you probably won't be using the office echo as a target for music anyway.

Danny

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