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SteveBM
Contributor III
October 4, 2017
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Hey Sonos, any plans for Alexa Apple Music Support in Uk?

  • October 4, 2017
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Hey, I suspect that commercial issues might prevent this, given the Apple and Amazon mix, but can you confirm whether there are any plans to extend the Alexa functionality to have Apple Music as a default library?
I know I can start Apple Music using the app, but I wonder whether it will be possible to set it as the default streaming service in the Sonos Alexa skill in future?

Great job with the app btw!
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    Best answer by Keith N
    Hi there, SteveBM:

    Thanks for the feedback on the app. I'll In regards to the question on plans to extend Alexa functionality to Apple Music, I would forward that feedback directly to Amazon. They are still the main point of contact in regards to future functionality with Amazon Alexa. Defaults for Alexa are all handled inside the Amazon Alexa app itself.

    Hope you found this helpful.

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    niall646
    Lyricist I
    December 19, 2017
    Well to find this out is rubbish. Just paid £200 for something that doesn’t work in the way I expected. I feel a refund coming.
    TonyTony
    Contributor I
    November 9, 2018
    The way I get round this to some extent is by using IFTTT (If This Then That) - you can set up a skill triggered by Alexa to play any of your Sonos favourites in a specific room / grouped rooms. So, for example, I can say ‘Alexa Trigger cats’ and it will play ‘Music For Cats’* from Apple Music in the Kitchen.

    *Other albums are available
    Ken_Griffiths
    Ken_Griffiths
    November 9, 2018
    Put another one in the super disappointed camp. 95% of our music listening comes through Apple Music. So This Alexa addition (for which I have eagerly been waiting for a year) proves to be pretty useless. Handy to pause the music and change volume but a massive disappointment vs our expectations. Doesn’t sound like it is coming soon either. Switching music service is just too much effort after the hours and hours of playlist creation we have done.

    Oh well. Guess I will put the echo dots back in their boxes.    Why are you using Amazon Echo devices to play your Apple music when you could have purchased one of the Sonos AirPlayers and used Siri voice control instead?

    If you buy or own one of these...
    Sonos One
    Beam
    PlayBase
    Play:5 (gen 2)
    New Sonos Amp (coming soon)

    Then you can register any of these devices in Apple HomeKit as an accessory (like a HomePod Speaker) and then ask Siri to play any of your Apple Music to those speakers or any other type of Sonos Speaker that is 'Grouped' with one of the devices listed.

    Of course you can also use Alexa to control a speaker queue aswell, but you have to create that queue manually to begin with, but the Siri-control option is surely the 'first port of call' if you are just an Apple Music subscriber.
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