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I’ve used Google Assistant to control Pandora (default service) playback on Sonos amps for years with no real issues.   So when I asked google assistant to “Play Led Zeppelin Radio”, Sonos played a Pandora classic rock radio station based on the music of Led Zeppelin.   All was good in the world 😀

However, in the last few weeks this capability is broken.    Now when I tell google “Play Led Zeppelin Radio” what I get is a queue filled with some songs by Led Zeppelin and other random unrelated songs with the words “Led Zeppelin” in the song title from every genre possible.  See the attached image.  

The command works properly when the google device is not connected to a sonos speaker.

EDIT - More Info:    I have the same issue on Sonos Arc (built-in google assistant).  The problem goes away if I change the default music speaker of the google mini to itself (i.e. disconnect the mini from Sonos).  But the problem returns when I make a sonos speaker the default player for the google mini. 

What is happening?   Is there something on my end I can update?  

 

 

 

What did Pandora say, since all you’re doing is telling Sonos to point to a Pandora server, and get the content that is presented to them? 

I am asking help from all three platforms.   It might be a google issue since the problem only happens when I ask google to make its default playback speaker a sonos device.   

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