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rogerB
Contributor I
Jun 12, 2018 9:40 AM UTC

When will true compatibility with Alexa & Sonos be available?

I have Sonos in virtually every room and it is used daily to play the radio, streaming music and most importantly music from my NAS. Can someone tell me:
When i can use Alexa to play my music from my NAS drive?
When Alexa will be able to group and ungroup Sonos zones?
Now my 4 CR100 controllers no longer work i bought Alexa to help, unfortunately it is not yet a proper solution.

Unless someone out there has a fix??
Thanks
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      jgatie
      jgatie
      Dec 21, 2018 3:25 PM UTC
      At this time, you cannot use Alexa to initiate play from your local library. For more details on what Alexa on Sonos can do, see this link:

      https://support.sonos.com/s/article/3514?language=en_US
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        My_name_is_Neo
        Lyricist II
        Dec 22, 2018 6:36 PM UTC
        At this time, you cannot use Alexa to initiate play from your local library. For more details on what Alexa on Sonos can do, see this link:

        https://support.sonos.com/s/article/3514?language=en_US
        Thank you so much for your reply succinct I do appreciate it. Perhaps Sonos could make this clear on their web site giving potential first time buyers (like me) more information to choose a model with or without Alexa. As I thought simply checking the compatibility of streaming protocols supported by the Sonos product and my server would be sufficient.
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        Bg573
        Enthusiast I
        Dec 24, 2018 12:42 AM UTC
        At this time, you cannot use Alexa to initiate play from your local library. For more details on what Alexa on Sonos can do, see this link:

        https://support.sonos.com/s/article/3514?language=en_US

        You can, however, use the Sonos / IFTTT / Alexa integration to start playback of named items from your "My Sonos" Favorites (*), including music from your local library. It's not very convenient to set up and does not support playlists (ugh), but it's enough for my home's major use case.
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        doug108
        Lyricist I
        Feb 16, 2019 6:35 PM UTC
        Still no eta for playing music from your local library via the Alexa skills for Sonos? This feature needs to exist for me to invest in the Sonos solution.
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        controlav
        controlav
        Lead Maestro
        Feb 17, 2019 2:05 PM UTC
        When did you ever see any ETA from Sonos for any new feature? They don't work like that. However in this case the main problem is the architecture they have chosen to integrate with Alexa: local library playback is simply impossible for them. Several 3rd party Skills can do it, because they integrate using a more "standard" method. If you really want a solution from Sonos for this, give it up now and look elsewhere.
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