Is Multiroom Music (MRM) going to be supported?

I’m a little confused by what yoiu’re asking.  The ability to play the same song in every room, synced so you can walk from one room to the next and hear the same music continuously, has been a feature of Sonos since inception.  Do you have another definition of MultiRoom that you’re using?

Hi AirForceTeacher,

I mean in regard with Alexa groups. I can ask Alexa to play music “everywhere” and it plays on Echo and Third party devices in each room, except Sonos. Sorry it wasn’t clear.

You cannot sync Echo devices and Sonos devices. As @airforceteacher says  Sonos is itself designed as a multiroom hifi system. 

I doubt there will ever be an integration of the two systems,  although clearly I could be wrong. If you go for Sonos you really have to go all-in with Sonos, not treat them as just another brand of speakers to be mixed with everything else.

I received a Sonos Beam for Christmas but will return it due to this lacking feature.  Lots of requests but little response from Sonos.  It’s a pretty simple request: I already have Several Echo devices - I just want to add the sound bar to the group and play music though all of them.  I read Polk recently added this capability so I will probably go that direction.  

… which would ensure that Sonos went out of business in record time, as people would buy cheap Echo devices in place of Sonos speakers.

The request is to add Sonos speakers, not replace or displace them.  This is for someone who has a bunch of echo speakers already and wants to add a nice Sonos to the mix.

https://developer.amazon.com/en-US/docs/alexa/mrm/multi-room-music-sdk-overview.html

Politics and Business decisions aside, this would be nice.  I thinks Sonos used to be a starting point for smart music speakers, but the starting point is likely Amazon or Google now.  If Sonos could play well with those baselines I could see them selling more on the merits of better sound and desire to have the best.  If the baseline system needs to be thrown out to achieve this, it is an uphill battle.  I’m just thinking forward, without consideration for the history.  Playing nice with MRM and Chromcast would achieve this.

@Jd1304 . I think you miss the point. Sonos make multiroom wireless audio systems  Sonos INVENTED multiroom wireless audio systems. That is the product.  You go all in with Sonos or you buy something else. Looks like you will be buying something else.

And to make it incompatible with other systems will not encourage someone to gradually build up Sonos speakers in their system. Especially if other hi-fi speaker systems do everything Sonos does and use these universal protocols. I love the couple Sonos speakers I have, but I’m not going to drop the money to buy one for every room all at once, especially since I have a dot for most rooms because the voice control on Sonos is vastly inferior. You can invent something and then be left in the dust by not serving your customers. It’s not up for anyone else to say what other customers want. I’m clearly not alone in wanting this support.

By 'universal protocols' do you mean the wireless audio patents that Sonos owns?

https://audioxpress.com/article/sonos-settles-another-patent-infringement-case-and-agrees-on-multi-year-licensing-deal-with-lenbrook

'Universal protocols' my a**e.

Sonos making their products incompatible? Where do I start.....?

No, I mean the open protocols published by Google and Amazon that the majority of smart speakers use. I’m sure you and a few other original adopters are happy not having wireless speakers integrated with your smart home systems. I really like quality music and I use many fully intergrated smart home products.

If your premise that Sonos believes people should choose either a smart home system or choose Sonos then I imagine Sonos would not have added the limited support they have.

I will give you the point that saying that Sonos makes it’s products incompatible is inaccurate and unfair. They have not implemented features that many of their customers want, that are open protocols with no licencing costs, that the hardware could support, and that their competitors have implemented. They have done this while incorporating some smart speaker features, which indicates that they have some intention for their speakers to be used in the context of a smart home system.