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peterpmb
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June 19, 2019
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use Alexa to play my music library to sonos speakers

  • June 19, 2019
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How can I get Alexa to play My Music Library (using the Bridge to my NAS drive) onto my Sonos speakers
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    jshaw42
    Avid Contributor III
    February 7, 2020

    I keep coming back here from time to time in the hope that someone will have figured out how to or designed a skill to have Alexa play my local library. l Have a very large collection of music I like and have no need for Spotify, Pandora, Amazon Music or any online/cloud accesses. Does Google Home have a connection?

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    controlav
    Lead Maestro
    February 8, 2020

    Skills have no access to the local network ie your music files. The Sonos Cloud API offers nothing in the way of access to your local files either. The only way to achieve this is via some piece of software running on your local network that proxies between the Skill and your local files.

    This is how my Skill worked, but thanks to its reliance on timely Apple Push Notifications combined with Amazon’s painful verification methodology, along with the $50/month I was shelling out to run the service, I eventually decided to retire the Skill.

    I know nothing about how Google Home works but everything i have read indicates it has the same issues as Alexa.

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