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BazSkywalker
Contributor I
January 23, 2023
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Sonos/Spotify with Samsung Family Hub (refrigerator)

  • January 23, 2023
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Can somebody please advise on whether I can get Sonos/Spotify playing nicely with the Samsung Family Hub (runs on Samsung’s Tizen O/S I believe)?

 

The Spotify App runs on Tizen on the fridge. It can see Amazon firesticks and Amazon speaker devices as things that it can play to (apart from being able to play on the fridge speaker itself).

 

Whether I run the Google or Alexa voice assistants on the Sonos speakers I have, I cannot get it to see the Sonos speakers though. I have a Move and a One.

 

From some desktop research, it looks like Samsung may only support the Sonos speakers through a Hub/Bridge, which is not possible to use as I’m on S2.

 

Is there any way round this? My desired outcome is to be able to change the Spotify music on the fridge, outputting the music to the Sonos speakers (as a group - the two speakers are at different ends of a long room).

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    Best answer by Corry P

    Hi @BazSkywalker 

    Yes - you could Bluetooth your fridge and a Roam together, then group-in other Sonos units to play too. No adaptor needed. The Move you already have can play Bluetooth directly, but it cannot share the feed with other speakers (it disconnects from WiFi when connected to Bluetooth). The Sonos One has no Bluetooth capability, but just like all other Sonos products, it can be grouped in.

    Note that unlike Line-In for your Port, Roam must itself be playing Bluetooth for other rooms to play that source too.

    For grouping, an easy alternative to using the app is to just hold the Play button for about a second (you’ll hear a soft tone) on a speaker you want included in whatever is currently playing elsewhere. If more than one source is playing, repeating the step will cycle through the active sources. Hold again to ungroup the speaker.

    To play to all rooms in one step you can use the app, but the easiest way is to use Sonos Voice Control. You could install it on the Roam, for example, and when Bluetooth playback starts, simply say “Hey Sonos, play this everywhere”.

    I hope this helps, and you are most welcome!

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    106rallye
    106rallye
    January 18, 2024

    Since you are posting here, do you think this a problem for Sonos to solve? Your fridge won’t do Spotify Connect and the Sonos WiFi speakers won’t do Bluetooth. Would this not be something for Samsung to solve?

      Willo123
      Lyricist I
      January 27, 2024

      Hi there, I consider buying this fridge exactly for this purpose (and also to have fresh food 😀).  I’ve two play 3 and I want stream music to them throught spotify with the fridge, does the problem is solved yet or it’s still not solved? 

      I bought fridge for same reason. Thought it would be a good option for my two kids to choose what they are listening to.

      Thought there had to be a way to do it. From reading this chat maybe there are but its far from straight forward and I'm defeated. And wouldn't have bothered with the fridge tbh. And perhaps wouldn't have bothered with the Sonos set up either. Frustrating to say the least.

      chirpa12
      Contributor I
      March 13, 2024

      I'm looking for the same solution. Sonos claims Spotify has Sonos Direct Control capability. But apparently not when using the Spotify app on the fridge. Of course, why would it be so convenient? Maybe Tidal will do it? It also has Direct Control capability. 

      Airgetlam
      Airgetlam
      March 13, 2024

      It depends on the streaming company ( Spotify or Tidal) including the Sonos API in their refrigerator app, if that is even possible. Sonos hasn’t written their own refrigerator app, nor would I expect them to. And Sonos doesn’t have access to the code for these streaming companies, all they do is supply an API for anyone to incorporate in their own codebase. 

      Bruce
      chirpa12
      Contributor I
      March 13, 2024

      Yeah and as far as I can tell tidal doesn't have an app for Samsung Fridges. Not a lot of demand to invest in coding for such a niche market. 

        Leehud74
        Lyricist II
        March 19, 2024

        I too am wanting to do this, is there no way you can link an Alexa speaker (group) to the sonos system in the Alexa app so when u select that Alexa speaker on the Fridge Spotify app it auto plays via Sonos too? 

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