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TVPix
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March 27, 2025
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My Sonos One won't play music or news.

  • March 27, 2025
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With my Sonos One, I can call out for Sonos or Alexa. When I ask either of them to play a song, they say  okay, but nothing happens. If I ask for FOX News they say okay, but nothing happens. What’s wrong with it?

 

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Best answer by Airgetlam

You have three questions. The first, you’d likely need to call Sonos Support directly to discuss it. The Sonos device should normally play what you ask it.

When you speak directly to the phone folks, they have tools at their disposal that will allow them to give you advice specific to your network and Sonos system.

As to the second two issues, you’d need to talk to Amazon about. Sonos merely forwards your voice request to the Amazon server for processing. The SVC only recognizes commands regarding playback, and local processing would not recognize those names at all as being commands to the speaker fipor playback. 

 

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Airgetlam
AirgetlamAnswer
March 27, 2025

You have three questions. The first, you’d likely need to call Sonos Support directly to discuss it. The Sonos device should normally play what you ask it.

When you speak directly to the phone folks, they have tools at their disposal that will allow them to give you advice specific to your network and Sonos system.

As to the second two issues, you’d need to talk to Amazon about. Sonos merely forwards your voice request to the Amazon server for processing. The SVC only recognizes commands regarding playback, and local processing would not recognize those names at all as being commands to the speaker fipor playback. 

 

Bruce
TVPix
TVPixAuthor
Contributor I
March 27, 2025

Thank you. I plan on calling Sonos Support tomorrow. Do you know if there’s an Amazon Support for Alexa? 

Does it matter if I call out to Sonos or Alexa?

Airgetlam
March 27, 2025

No idea, I tend to focus on Sonos. 

Since SVC does all the processing ‘on the speaker’, it only knows about music stuff. If you’re asking about anything other than music, you’ve likely connected to Alexa, as SVC is only music related, and is not a full AI. 

Bruce
TVPix
TVPixAuthor
Contributor I
March 27, 2025

Thank you again.