Hi
I set up a new group, no problem, but I cannot see this group in my device list. When I change a devices room it updates immediately in the device list but I still see no groups.
So I'm lost in how to play spotify etc on a group without manually choosing multiple speakers in the sonos app, which also is not using the groups.
What is going on? Thanks
At the moment, if I want to change one of these groupings, I have to follow these steps:
This is a lot of extra steps compared to how I used to do this with Google Home groups. What I am curious is, if Spotify understands the grouping done in this manner, is there a reason that these groupings can’t be saved?
As per my comment above, it takes many extra taps to do this. Normally it takes 2 taps to switch the speaker group in Spotify, but if I want to use groupings like this for Sonos, it takes 7 taps. Given that Sonos groups are actually visible within Spotify, wondering why the “saved groups” are not directly showing up without these extra steps?
Can’t you go to groups (via the ellipsis menu) and select any room and hit the ‘ALL’ button - it’s just one click extra, but should do what you’re looking for (I think)? It’s much simpler too via the Sonos App, I find.
Yes there are lots of much easier ways … but not via the Spotify App. Spotify would need to change these things.
Room ‘grouping’ can be done automatically ‘on the fly’ using Alexa and Alexa ‘enabled’ groups, or simply ask SVC to play to the Sonos Group, or there is a third party iOS App called ‘Soro’ that can make room grouping easier. Even Apple Airplay is perhaps a slightly easier option, but of course these things depend on which things you choose to use/have access to … you’re relying on Spotify ‘connect’ to do these things and that only works in the way described.
I only use the Spotify ‘Free’ version, so I don’t use their App too often, but it appears you only need do these things once a day, if you do it regularly, every-day at similar times, for example, you could perhaps automate the room grouping using one of the methods described earlier (Alexa/SVC/Soro etc.) - the only other thing would be to perhaps submit a ‘feature request’ to Spotify or Sonos, I guess, but it may only save you a couple of extra ‘clicks’, but see what they say.
Just to assist further you can speak to Sonos Support Staff to put the feature request forward via this link:
https://support.sonos.com/s/contact
Or speak to Spotify Customer Support via this link:
https://support.spotify.com/uk/article/contact-us/
I hope that assists. 👍
Same problem- frankly for the cost of Sonos and being a well established product they should be able to make the groups you create in the App visible in Spotify or other mainstream apps. People here seem so defensive of Sonos when there’s a clear lack of function! When you think of how many people are playing Spotify through Sonos it shouldn’t be too much to ask - it’s a bit of API work not rocket science!
This is absolutely infuriating that Sonos would market so heavily that “all products go together to create a perfect system” -- knowing that the majority of the planet uses Spotify, and that there is no way to play a Group from Spotify.
I recently got a Roam and was happy to add it to my system but it does not pair to anything else, which seems like a borderline scam. It should be noted VERY OBVIOUSLY, “DOES NOT PAIR WITH ANY OTHER SONOS SPEAKERS.”
Aswell as ‘grouping’ with any other Sonos ‘room’, as mentioned by
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