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

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 .

I find the technological barriers to be an adequate explanation. Now could those be due to Amazon not playing ball or prioritizing development because of protectionism? I have no doubt this factors in. But if Amazon is not willing to host a local index in the cloud or is unwilling to accommodate a query to Sonos to get an entry back from the local index, or they push back this development in favor of streaming services, what is Sonos to do? And exactly how is that different from what you would call technological barriers impeding development?

If it doesn't exist in the API, and Amazon isn't working to put it in, that's a technological barrier, no matter the reasons behind it. These are things that have to be worked out, and it stands to reason Sonos and Amazon would do the stuff they can do before tackling the stuff they can't. That "stuff" happens to be streaming services though Amazon. Why would that be surprising to anyone? It's simple common sense.

But I still maintain if Amazon truly wanted to support only their services, they would have locked out all voice commands from anything but their services. This would be easy to do, and there is nothing Sonos could do about it. But they didn't, and nobody claiming there is a greedy conspiracy going on can explain this fact.

Oh and by the way, Facebook posts from the Sonos account state Alexa Spotify support will be here by the Holidays.

Queue another "Does 'by the Holidays' mean before Thanksgiving, or before January 2, 2018?" discussion. Does Canadian Thanksgiving count? 😉

yes please!

yes please!

Disappointed that we even need to ask for this via a petition. This and similar has been asked of Sonos for some time. Has Sonos responded yet to anyone regarding this?

+1 for music library support. I'd like to have a way to replace my queue and start playback with a song, artist, album, genre, or playlist.

Yes please. I'm sure you had to give priority to Amazon Unlimited to sweeten the deal with Alexa, but it would be awesome if we could get a Plex/Sonos via Alexa solution working.

Alexa should definitely be able to play the local music library accessible from my Sonos system. Only being able to link to a streaming service is not helpful when I mostly listen to my own library.

Yes please this is one of the most important uses to me. I already have Pandora and Spotify enabled although I must say it's pretty difficult to get Alexa to play a song from spotify in a given room without her defaulting to the default music service.

yes - absolutely NEEDED!!!