Sonos One Alexa skills: What works, what doesn’t

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October 28, 2017
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Working
Box of Cats
Bird Song
Most skills that don’t open a continuous audio stream

Not Working
Radio Paradise - commands working, including setting stream quality to FLAC, but won’t play anything (yes, I know it works via TuneIn, but stream quality is unknown and can’t be selected via voice control. FLAC works on Echo, but not Dot)

Simple Radio - won’t play anything

Seems like Sonos One is unable to open a stream that’s not on TuneIn, Amazon Music, or any of the other built-in services. Hope that changes soon...

Please list skills that you believe really ought to be working on One, but aren’t.

Alexa Skills

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rhinoman

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I've noticed that after a clean boot, Alexa will play a radio station "Alexa, play Jump 106.9 on TuneIn". However, if you interact with Alexa in another way (asking the time, weather, etc), and then try to play music again as mentioned before, it reports that it's playing music, but no audio is routed to the Sonos One.

chicksAuthor

Thousands upon thousands of podcasts via the Stitcher skill appear to not work, most likely due to Sonos not having implemented the AudioPlayer API. Sonos, it’s been almost six months since your Alexa integration, yet this fundamentally important piece of the integration still isn’t working. Aren’t you just a little embarrassed by this?

I have high hopes that this will be implemented in the upcoming “early April” release, but won’t hold my breath. This is beyond ridiculous at this point.

chicksAuthor

Same deal with the AnyPod skill. Huge amount of content that can’t be played via Alexa on Sonos. More content all the time that Sonos’ lack of a very basic Alexa functionality prevents playing.

chicksAuthor

My Pod skill allows you to create playlists from many URLs, including Google Drive. Uploaded a bunch of mp3s to my Google Drive, turned on sharing, grabbed the link, and set up in the My Pod UI. Works great on my Echo devices, but, of course, "I'm having trouble accessing that skill" on Sonos One. Sigh. This is getting old, Sonos! So much innovation around this basic Alexa API, which Sonos should have implemented on Oct. 4th...

https://www.mypodapp.com

chicksAuthor

For those posting that this is an Amazon restriction: wrong. All the skills I’ve listed work fine on the Roav Viva in my car. This is purely a Sonos issue. They’re being very, very slow about enabling the AudioPlayer interface that these skills require.

Ryan S

Retired Sonos Staff

Hi everyone, thanks for sharing your feedback here! I just posted a message from our Alexa development team about some new Skills with full support for Sonos here.

Some of the ones you've mentioned here like Stitcher now should be fully up and running on Sonos One.

Mark good posts by pressing the like button, and select the best answer on questions you've asked to help others find solutions.

chicksAuthor

Radio.com not working.
Cat Sounds not working.

chicksAuthor

Progress...

AnyPod working
Cat Sounds working
Radio Paradise working. Note: FLAC stream quality supported on Sonos One (but not on newer Echos).
Simple Radio working

The Jazz Groove and Radio.com no longer report errors, but no sound.

Jazz FM working, but The Jazz Groove is much better, and commercial free. Please, Sonos, fix The Jazz Groove!

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Sindee75

Lyricist I

Any update on when mypodapp.com will work with sonos play 1? Please fix ?

chicksAuthor

The Jazz Groove is finally working, as is Radio.com. Yay!

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