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fcarranza
Contributor I
January 6, 2018
Question

Sonos One with Alexa trying to access my songs & playlists in iTunes on my iMac

  • January 6, 2018
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I just got a Sonos One for Xmas with Alexa and I love it.
However, I am a newbie and would like to ask Alexa to play a song, album or playlist from my fairly large iTunes library on my iMac. Can anyone assist me on how to do that?
Thanks in advance.
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Arc_Light
Contributor I
January 6, 2018
That is my problem, too. I also received a Sonos One for Christmas, But, I cannot get it to play any of my purchased music off the iTunes Store. I'm looking forward to some knowledgeable person helping us.
UKMedia
UKMedia
January 6, 2018
Hi both.

Amazon Alexa doesn't support the playing of locally stored music via voice control, in fact no do Google Assistant. There was the option to upload your music collection to the Amazon cloud - for a fee- but Amazon has just announced that they are withdrawing this capability in early 2018.

The only option is to initiate audio from your local collection and then control via voice control afterwards. e.g. Pause, Resume, Next, etc.
Remember: Sometimes Red Wine helps :)
Arc_Light
Contributor I
January 6, 2018
Thank you for your clarification, Rising Star. Hopefully, this ability will come to us in the future. One can always hope. 🙂
fcarranzaAuthor
Contributor I
January 6, 2018
I saw that My Media may be able to do this? Does that work?
UKMedia
UKMedia
January 7, 2018
I haven't tried this but the command syntax 'Alexa, Ask My Media to play Ed Sheeran on Kitchen Sonos' is a bit chunky but maybe worth a try.
Remember: Sometimes Red Wine helps :)
TechTex
Contributor I
January 7, 2018
I’m looking for similar solution and am going to try the plex alexa app. Maybe this will help you too...
    UKMedia
    UKMedia
    January 8, 2018
    I’m looking for similar solution and am going to try the plex alexa app. Maybe this will help you too...

    Please ley us know how you get on, I gave up on Plex and would be interested to get your views.
    Remember: Sometimes Red Wine helps :)
    My Media
    Contributor I
    August 26, 2018
    “My Media for Alexa” now works with the Sonos One so you can ask Alexa to play your local music and iTunes music directly on your Sonos. Check out https://www.mymediaalexa.com

    For iTunes music, you will need to have the music downloaded locally (ie not just on iCloud) but otherwise it works fine including importing your iTunes playlists so you can voice control them too.
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