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GerryON
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March 30, 2019
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Multiple users on a single account

  • March 30, 2019
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Does anyone know if it's possible for two users in the same household to login into a single account and control their music separately? Thanks

 

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      Best answer by John B
      You can have multiple controllers with multiple rooms. All controllers can control all rooms. If you have different streaming accounts they can both be added and controllers set to default to a particular streaming account. Only one Sonos account is needed but several peaple can use the system simultaneously.

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      ryddo
      Lyricist I
      September 29, 2019
      So here is my problem. My wife and I have separate amazon music accounts with separate playlists. My account is tied to the Sonos system so she is unable to link her amazon music account and play her playlists. Is there anyway to have multiple amazon music accounts so we can each play our own playlists at different times??
        controlav
        controlav
        Lead Maestro
        September 29, 2019
        So here is my problem. My wife and I have separate amazon music accounts with separate playlists. My account is tied to the Sonos system so she is unable to link her amazon music account and play her playlists. Is there anyway to have multiple amazon music accounts so we can each play our own playlists at different times??

        Sure, just add her Amazon account using the Sonos app. In the app itself there is a clunky UI to switch between your account and hers. You play your stuff, she plays here, no problem.

        If you use Alexa then this might be a problem, I am not aware of how to get the official Sonos skill to handle this case, but could be wrong. I use my own thing on Alexa.
        Author of the leading independent Sonos apps for Android, MacOS, iOS, Windows and Xbox.
        Prilly
        Lyricist III
        December 24, 2019

        The critical point here is that the app is not a music player. It is a means of viewing the system and issuing commands to it. The system has to remain agnostic about where a command has come from in a multi-controller environment like Sonos. Every controller must give the same picture of the system.

        The suggestion from @cobraBLACK also sits uneasily with the notion of the queue. (Although I have to admit to hating the way the queue works now!)

        You are completly wrong, the app is a music player for shure. A severly limited one is multiuser

        Airgetlam
        Airgetlam
        December 24, 2019

        Laugh. 

        John is 100% correct. This is why you can start a playback using your phone, then leave your home, and the stream continues to play. 

        Bruce
        Airgetlam
        Airgetlam
        December 24, 2019

        The middle point is when you’re playing “from this device” on an Android phone, since it no longer works on an iOS device. In that case, the Android device is acting as an NAS style source for the data, but the player itself is still on the speakers, which are reaching out to get the stream from where they are told it is. There is never any music playing by the app on the phone. 

        Bruce
        Prilly
        Lyricist III
        December 24, 2019

        Laugh. 

        John is 100% correct. This is why you can start a playback using your phone, then leave your home, and the stream continues to play. 


        You have completly missed the consept and your example is non relevant.

         

        If you are home or not, or if the stream goes directly from source to speaker,  or relayed or act as a remote is not relevant att all.

         

        The fact is you need to use the app to initialize playing of radio channels added as source to the speaker, there are no other way to start this if you dont want to use thirdparty apps for this, as long as this is the fact, the sonos app is a music player

         

         

          Prilly
          Lyricist III
          December 24, 2019

          I just got 2 one gen 2 speakers and to be honest my first impression with multiuser and user isolation in regards to privacy in sonos make me think this is a pile of nonsense

           

          Moderator edit, to conform with community guidelines for posting.

          bockersjv
          bockersjv
          Local Superstar
          December 24, 2019

          I just got 2 one gen 2 speakers and to be honest my first impression with multiuser and user isolation in regards to privacy in sonos make me think this is a pile of .nonsense

          Delightful words. This is a community forum and we are trying to explain how the system works. If you get the concept you will realise just how flexible the Sonos system is. 
           

          Anyone on your lan with the Sonos app (or Spotify, Amazon music, Alexa, Airplay2, Google home) can play music in any room. They can add to queue, or even delete items. The Sonos app just fires a command to the speaker to play music from a particular source. If you use Alexa it fires the same command direct to the speaker. Group speakers together and it will play to all of them in sync.
           

          This concept is what made Sonos unique when it launched and is still one of the few systems to offer this flexibility 

           

          That pile of **** is something much loved by users. 
           

           

          Prilly
          Lyricist III
          December 24, 2019

          This system has multiple flaws:

           

          1. System is tied to a user account, its in fact a single user system.
          2. Its not possible for a second user to add spotify directly to the system without logging in to the system owners account
          3. Its not possible for the system owner to add spotify to the system for user two if system owner ront have a spotify account.
          4. Privacy is non existent, its possible for system owner to interact with spotify accounts added to the system that is belonging to a different user.
          5. Sonos speakers is sending hughe amount of data to their own system and to google.and amazon. Blocking outgoing traffic from speaker to spotify, or any service that is non source of the streaming music makes the speaker useless.
          6. No information about thirdparty integration and whats data is collected.

          In my view the reason sonos is loved is its simpel for stupid people, much like apple, it just works even if you sold your soul for it. For advamced users sonos is garbage. Why does sonos stick with 802.11g? Its a extremely old protocol and should have been replaced 10 years ago.

          But the worst is ofcourse multiuser setup and complete.lack of privacy and no gdpr compliance.

            bockersjv
            bockersjv
            Local Superstar
            December 25, 2019

            Lovely comments 🙄

             
             

             

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