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Contributor I
November 18, 2017
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Sonos not playing Alexa music

  • November 18, 2017
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I've had the Sonos One for a couple of weeks and it was working fine up until yesterday. The music plays fine through sonos app but is not playing correctly through the speaker upon command. For example, if I ask Alexa "to play Lithium on SiriusXM" she responds "Lithium from SiriusXM playing on Office" but then nothing happens. Any suggestions?
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Best answer by Edward R
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Lyricist I
May 13, 2018
I had this problem after changing my wireless network. I took a guess thinking it was sending it to the old network, so i disconnected alexa skill and the reenabled it and it started working. Very frustrating but now working.
Avid Contributor I
June 14, 2018
Well, well, well.
After today’s update Sonos will play Spotify through Sonos again.
I thought I was going mad, it used to work, then it didn’t. But Amazon music worked, a conspiracy?
Happy I don’t need to type anything anymore....until the next update????
Avid Contributor III
July 20, 2018
I too have the problem. Sometimes it worked ok - maybe 2% of the time. Also, I found out if I hit the play button on the top it starts playing. I'm going to try disabling the skill and restarting it.
Edward R
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Retired Sonos Staff
June 27, 2019
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We have an article that talks about how to resolve the majority of issues with Alexa on Sonos. If you are experiencing the problems details in this thread, please have a look there.
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