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Fosty74
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October 24, 2017
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Playing Spotify with Alexa on Sonos One

  • October 24, 2017
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I just got my Sonos One today and am trying to get Alexa up and running. It is working with all of my home automation, Wink, Nest etc, but I can get Alexa to play anything on Spotify, which is my only music subscription service. She keeps saying “cannot play from Spotify music on that Device”. I have linked all of my accounts, and they show up as linked. I also do have a premium account on Spotify. Anyone have any thoughts? She does offer to set me up an Amazon music account when I just ask for a specific song or artist, then plays me a sample of the song.
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      Best answer by Ryan S
      I'm a couple weeks late, but if you missed it Spotify is now playing on Sonos through Alexa. Take a look here for details.

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      Someone_else
      Lyricist I
      October 25, 2017
      Currently you can’t use Alexa + Sonos to control Spotify. It’s “coming soon” according to Sonos.
        prasek
        Lyricist I
        October 26, 2017
        [quote=jgatie]Currently if you use the Spotify service on Alexa, it will not initialize play from Spotify on Sonos. Spotify support is expected by Christmas.

        Picking songs from Spotify while in the shower is a killer feature for Sonos One. Very surprised Spotify support wasn’t there at first ship. When I tried it said “I can’t play from Spotify Music from that device”. Big let down. Eagerly awaiting Spotify support by Christmas. Please make this your #1 feature for the next release!!!
        masayako
        Trending Lyricist I
        October 28, 2017
        I am patiently waiting.
          UKMedia
          UKMedia
          October 29, 2017
          There is a bit of a workaround. If you set Spotify as your default music source within the Alexa App, you can select an artist from Spotify with an Echo dot and control with the Sonos 1 afterwards.
          Remember: Sometimes Red Wine helps :)
            JerSeattle
            Enthusiast I
            October 29, 2017
            It’s frustrating they haven’t figured this out. I’m all sonos’ed up and showing friends. Would love to show them that Spotify and Apple Music work with them through voice command via Alexa and/or Siri. Right now everyone is going HomePod in my group. But love my sonos speakers. Help me prove friends wrong on Sonos and get the Spotify and Siri API! Thank you for producing awesome speakers!
              JerSeattle
              Enthusiast I
              October 29, 2017
              There is a bit of a workaround. If you set Spotify as your default music source within the Alexa App, you can select an artist from Spotify with an Echo dot and control with the Sonos 1 afterwards.

              How do you do this?
              UKMedia
              UKMedia
              October 30, 2017
              Hi JerSeattle

              - Login to your Alexa App;
              - Select 'Music, Video & Books' and then select your Echo device from the drop down list box;
              - Link your Spotify account (Only works with Premium account);
              - Select 'Settings' and then 'Music Services';
              - Select 'Choose default music services' and then select 'Spotify'
              - Select 'Done'

              When you ask to play a specific artist on your Echo device, it will now default to Spotify as the source.
              Remember: Sometimes Red Wine helps :)
              JerSeattle
              Enthusiast I
              October 30, 2017
              Thank you! Worked perfectly!
              Tigger5498
              Lyricist I
              November 1, 2017
              PLEASE PLEASE add Spotify support. It can’t come soon enough on the Sonos One with Alexa
              ydarb
              Lyricist I
              November 14, 2017
              I have bought my wife a sonos one for Christmas and am going to get her a subscription. I am leaning towards google music at the moment but does anyone know if this is or will be compatible with Alexa?
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