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L. Vis
Contributor II
December 20, 2020
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Spotify podcasts

  • December 20, 2020
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I recently became a Spotify Premium subscriber. Knowing I can play Spotify on Sonos systems, I was shocked to find that Spotify podcasts cannot be played through Sonos. Why the hell not? Why is Sonos blocking part of the Spotify content?

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Best answer by Airgetlam

Sonos doesn’t block any content. Spotify chooses what content is made available through the Sonos system. 

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Airgetlam
AirgetlamAnswer
December 20, 2020

Sonos doesn’t block any content. Spotify chooses what content is made available through the Sonos system. 

Bruce
L. VisAuthor
Contributor II
December 20, 2020

So Spotify is the culprit? Good to know. Thanks.

    Airgetlam
    Airgetlam
    December 20, 2020

    It would be nice if Sonos had any control over what is presented to them by the Spotify servers, but unfortunately, all they can do is point the player at the server supplied by Spotify (or, for that matter, any other streaming service other than Sonos Radio) and play what is available on that server.

    Sometimes, I wonder if there are legal issues around why particular content isn’t available, but that’s based on my past history on wrangling music rights for games, which had all sorts of random issues associated. I have no idea if that is what is keeping Spotify from presenting the podcasts through Sonos or not. 

    Bruce
    L. VisAuthor
    Contributor II
    February 22, 2021

    Thanks. I tried to contact Spotify about this but got no answer.

    Airgetlam
    Airgetlam
    February 22, 2021

    Hopefully their CS folks added a check mark or your name to the list of people asking for this content to be added to the stream they supply to Sonos.

    Bruce
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