Petition to Add Local Library Playback to Alexa/Sonos Voice Control

Please include local library playback on sonos/alexa.......

You can control playback. Everything but initializing or adding to the queue. These functions will require a far more complicated scheme of loading a copy of your index in the Amazon Cloud.

I would also regard the ability to play music from my NAS using voice commands to be a huge plus.

Just bought an Echo and was very disappointed to find there is no local library commands.

I shpuld habe checked before i bought, i just assumed this would be a basic feature.

Hopefully they can include this for the full release aftwr BETA

I can only really use my local library due to poor local Internet due to rural area, poor speeds and ridiculous caps - I think this wouldn't be a huge step, since there's plenty of amateurs who have got this working, never mind a BILLION dollar giant company like SONOS

The integration methodology of the amateurs is rather different than the official Sonos/Alexa. Part of that is to allow for different features, and part (speculating) is for business reasons. The assumption that local library isn't too hard is not really a good one, despite how it may look from the outside, without considering all the details.


Seriously! What's the point of having Alexa integration with sonos if it's only limited to music services that are integrated with Alexa.
What an over-hyped "upgrade".
If you can't control playback of your sonos library through Alexa, it's a complete wast of time.

Actually, stats have been posted on the forums before that show the vast majority of users only use streaming services. That's not to say that those that use their local library's are irrelevant, but releasing the integration with streaming only is far from a waste of time. Particularly when the streaming services they hit are essentially "long hanging fruit" and people have been practically begging to get some form of voice control with Sonos.

I think we would all like our music libraries integrated into voice control on Sonos, but they have chosen to partner a company that has its own streaming service so I really can't see that happening anytime soon .

I think we would all like our music libraries integrated into voice control on Sonos, but they have chosen to partner a company that has its own streaming service so I really can't see that happening anytime soon .

I don't care if library is included since I don't use one, but for the longevity of the company, I want them to please as many companines as possible.

As for why you can't, there are techincal reasons, but almost everyone wants to assume it's all about Amazon greed and Sonos not understanding what features their clients use (even though they track this).

I cannot believe this was not in the initial release. I bought a sonos to listen to the music I own which is stored on a NAS not to rent music. I suspect they will lose many customers if they do not sort this out. Given the amount of interest you would think the company might respond to address the concerns of its customers!!

I think we would all like our music libraries integrated into voice control on Sonos, but they have chosen to partner a company that has its own streaming service so I really can't see that happening anytime soon .

If this were truly about partnering with Amazon, why would they allow basic playback controls of any non-Amazon services, including local libraries? If they wanted to offer Voice Control only for Amazon Music or other Amazon partners, they would have done just that. Instead, everything except initializing playback is available for all other services; Pause, Play, Volume Control, Skip, Previous, even "Alexa, What's playing?" - all available; you just can't add tracks. This, coupled with published facts about the Alexa interface, says it is far more likely there are technological barriers to this feature, rather than any greed/protectionism on Amazon's part.

Jgatie, I cannot believe that technological Barriers is that big a barrier for two technological companies, if they really wanted to sort it out . Any big company is going to employ a level of protectionism and push their product over it's rivals why wouldn't you ? Amazon have a music streaming service why wouldn't they promote that over a rival streaming company ? Nobody outside of Amazon or Sonos knows the time scale for Spotify integration but I would bet that it won't be before Christmas, and when/if it arrives it won't give you as good an experience as using Amazon's music streaming over Sonos using Alexa .