Sonos speakers not showing in Spotify app

Hi. Thanks for replying.

My Sonos app has all possible permissions, so does the Spotify app.

Is there a way of emailing support?

Hi @DPE1983,

There isn’t a way of emailing them directly, you’ll need to first contact them via live chat or phone.

You can ask them to set up an email case for you after you contact them.

I hope this helps!

I have the same issue here with my OnePlus11. It was not an issue with my OnePlus Nord. I think its due to Android 13. 

When I start with Sonos than I see the speakers in the Spotify app. Starting with Spotify doesnt show the Sonos speakers. And if, it will disappear soon. Please share your finds here. 

Same here. Sonos not showing in Spotify since I have the Samsung S23Ultra. Only way to show them is to reboot my router. Already unplugged all the Sonos products and reinstalled the app.

Today, I have contacted Sonos about this issue, with at least the OnePlus 11. The conclusion after a long chat and some data sharing: Sonos didn’t know there was an issue or that it was an issue at the Community at all, and in the end it’s not an issue they can solve... They are going to check again my logs with their technical staff, but I don’t expect a serious break through from this.

I’m using SPOTIFY to play through SONOS from my Galaxy S20 FE using Android 13 without issues.

I’m curious. Is your phone’s firmware maintained directly from the manufacturer or through your service provider? I had issues with very delayed updates by the service provider on a previous phone. I was at least weeks behind general updates. I bought this phone directly from SAMSUNG and it is kept current by SAMSUNG. My main concern now is that SAMSUNG is attempting to mine more data from me than I’m comfortable with. I’m just ignoring most of their custom Apps.

On my phone and iPad all of my SONOS players and a 3rd party A/V unit are visible to SPOTIFY. Further, I can freely jump between SPOTIFY Apps, the A/V App, and another 3rd party control App that I’m working with. The only quirk is that I can only play SPOTIFY on a single device. In my opinion this is a reasonable restriction. I can certainly Group SONOS Rooms with the Room that SPOTIFY is playing through. I could do similar with the A/V receiver’s platform. I can’t simultaneously play SPOTIFY through SONOS and the A/V receiver.

Maintained from the manufacturer. 

I notice a quirk as I switch between my 3rd party Apps and the SPOTIFY App. The SPOTIFY App does not always remember the previous device that SPOTIFY was playing through. If I ask a 3rd party App to play SPOTIFY, the connection is correctly made, but if I open the SPOTIFY App ‘cold’, SPOTIFY will play on the controller device and I must manually direct SPOTIFY to play on my SONOS or A/V system.

With respect to SONOS, SONOS simply provides a free API that music services must use if they want their service to be available to SONOS users. SONOS will test the API for gross issues and, if approved, the service will be added to the supported list. The service must maintain its own use of the API. I notice that SPOTIFY is rather stingy with its use of the SONOS API and mostly just directs SONOS to launch the SPOTIFY App and transfers SPOTIFY control to the SPOTIFY App. The SONOS controller can execute basic commands, such as PLAY, PAUSE, Volume, and a few others, but  more complicated commands must be executed by the SPOTIFY App.

As a quick test while I’m writing this, I opened the SONOS controller and attempted to “Resume” (SPOTIFY’s term) a SPOTIFY session that was paused hours ago. SONOS sent some sort of command  API command (probably a ‘Play’) and SPOTIFY struggled with this for too many seconds, first attempting to start the track that was last playing. The previous artwork was displayed, the time progress bar started advancing, but there was no audio. There seemed to be a second attempt at restarting the track, then a new track’s artwork was fetched, but still no sound, followed by a successful restart. My interpretation is that the SONOS command forced a launch of the SPOTIFY App in the background and the SPOTIFY App had not yet established communication with the SPOTIFY servers. At times I’ll notice that  SPOTIFY will similarly stumble if I directly launch the SPOTIFY App.

So far, the SPOTIFY App has always been able to show and link to my SONOS devices and the A/V receiver. Note that, depending on their age, some SONOS devices can accept Airplay 2 streams. This interaction is different and Airplay will only show compatible devices that it is aware of. While Airplay is extremely popular, I’m not familiar with all of its quirks because I use it only on a “kick the tires” basis.

I also think it’s due to Sonos their API in combination with Android 13. All my other devices (Android and Apple) are showing other speakers (including the Sonos Playbase and Play 5 in my house) in the Spotify app...