Music services and sources

Find more information on which music services work with Sonos, playing from your music library, or using AirPlay 2 with Sonos.

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Andy B Sonos Staff

Using a Turntable with Sonos

Thinking about getting a turntable setup with your Sonos system and wondering where to start? We've got you covered. If you're looking for a quick overview before you dive into the details below, check out the info we have over on our blog and on our website here. Before getting started, we need...

John Zaj Contributor III

Pocket Casts is intermittently not taking 'resume' after pause and starting from beginning instead

Pocket Casts is intermittently not taking 'resume' after pause and starting from beginning instead steps: 1. Start a pocket casts podcast episode (I've been using Arrested DevOps) 2. Click Pause. (Or I have custom integration with my own Alexa devices which sends the commands 'pause', 'resume', etc....

laconic Contributor III

Last played in Pocket Casts

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Not sure how to report a bug so I’ll stick this in here and hope it gets seen. Pocket Casts in Sonos no longer remembers the last played position. Only happened in the last few weeks.

Mark20 Contributor I

Connecting Computer audio to SONOS One

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Is there a simple way to do this?

Music Man 55 Contributor I

Playing Songs on My Ipad Through My Sonos Play:3 Speakers

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I have an Ipad with all of the songs I own (I digitized my albums, CDs, etc.). I can no longer play those songs through my Sonos Play:3 speakers. I received the warning messages that this would go away but thought I would be able to play them via Apple Air Play, but Sonos doesn't come up as an opt...

Stross82 Contributor I

Deezer on Sonos

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I use Deezer on sonos and all of a sudden today I couldn't find any music when searching through sonos, went to try and find deezer on the list of music services and it's not there. My normal deezer account is working fine through the app. Radio and audible services working fine, it's as if deezer a...

Mariner Avid Contributor I

Trpuble playing My Music Playlist in Amazon Serivces

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If I open Amazon Music Services in the controller and go to My Music I can play a song in every category Artist, Track, Genre.....etc with the exception of the songs in the My Playlist option. Upon attempting to play the files I receive a message that the file cannot be played because it is encode...

lex1106 Contributor I

Spotify/Alexa stops after one song/doesn't shuffle

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When I started using my Sonos One gen 2, I would ask Alexa to play a song from my Spotify library. Once the song would finish it would continue playing/shuffling similar songs. Now it just stops after the one song. I haven't change any setting on the speaker, Spotify or Alexa. I looked through setti...

mike546 Contributor I

Removing the 'On this iPhone, iPad, or iPod Touch' feature

Is anyone else upset that Sonos is pulling the plug "in the coming months" on IOS library access?? That's why I bought the Sonos System in 2012 in the first place. Now I'll have to use streaming services or keep my MacBook up and running to access my Sonos library in my home. More importantly, I b...

gerrardsteve Contributor I

cant stream music from my phone

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utterly disgusted I spend a significant amount of cash on a system and it’s now been emasculated by barring the facility to stream music. Disgusting move - think it’s time to sell my system

BCM

Same album name/different artists confusion

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I have two albums in my local library with the same exact name, and both are by two different artists. The tags are correct for each album. When I search for that album in the desktop controller and the iOS app, it only shows one of the albums in the list. When I click it to examine the tracks, the...

rich2wilson Contributor I

Apple TV and Sonos

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I am having issues where I can not send any auto from any Apple TV to any of my four Sonos One's. I can send audio from my Mac Book, iPhone or iPad, but not the Apple TV. How can I get support to resolve this?

Barkley2 Contributor I

AirPlay 2 Muting Help

My Setup: (2) Play:1's in stereo mode in my bedroom. (1) Sonos One in the family room. They are grouped together so I can use AirPlay 2. There are times when I only want the bedroom speakers on and not the family room speaker. I go into the sonos app and mute the speaker. It works. However, when I...

dcb17 Contributor I

Spotify Connect Has Disappeared

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Hi - About a week or two ago, I seemed to have lost the Spotify Connect option to Sonos in my Spotify app. My setup is a Playbase, two Ones and the sub. I have tried unplugging both the Playbase as well as my wireless router, but those have seemingly not worked. I have instead just been using AirPl...

malcf Contributor I

iPhone On My Device functionality - will one Airplay compatible speaker bring this functionality back to my whole setup?

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Since Sonos have removed the ability to play music direct from an iPhone which was 90% of my family’s use, can I restore that functionality by adding one Sonos One into my setup (or something else that supports AirPlay), or do all speakers need to be Airplay compatible? I have 4 rooms with Sonos sp...

andrewbassmorris Contributor I

“On this phone” was removed

There used to be a button in browse called “on this phone”, where you could play music that is stored locally on your phone through your Sonos speakers. why on earth did you remove this? This is how I used Sonos 90% of the time. Can you put this back?

kmhaven Contributor I

Can I play my new SiriusXM Pandora stations on my Sonos Play1?

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On the SiriusXM app, I added a few Pandora stations to my 'favorites". When I navigate to my SiriusXM favorite channels on the Sonos app however, the Pandora stations aren't there?

Mariner Avid Contributor I

New Problem with Amazon Music My Music>Tracks

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The problem with playing files in the My Music>Playlist option in which a coding error resulted has apparently been fixed, However if you now go to My Music>Tracks and select one track to play this results in every track being placed into the Que.

brttlt Avid Contributor I

Searching on Tidal on Sonos App

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Now that the Tidal app does NOT cast to Sonos anymore, how do you search songs, albums, bands on the Sonos app for Tidal? You can access your playlists, search genres, what's new, but where can I just type in a bands name to search them (like you can on the Tidal app)

VRickert Contributor I

ITunes Playlists disappear from Sonos

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God, I have the hardest time with Sonos and my ITunes playlist. They constantly disappear. What steps do i need to do in order for Sonos to KEEP my ITunes playlists???? Thank you! VRIckert

Nick Land Avid Contributor I

Spotify problem: can't see Artists or Stations in Sonos controller

When I access Spotify through the Sonos app, it doesn't show Artists or Stations. Playlists, Songs, and Albums show up, but not Artists or Stations. When I use the Spotify app and play through the Sonos speakers, all categories show up. I would prefer to be able to control everything through the...

PerA Contributor I

Spotify names for multiple accounts won't show when browsing

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I can add multiple Spotify accounts in the Sonos app and it lets me give them different names. The problem is that these names don't show up when browsing my music in the Sonos app. All Spotify accounts have the name"Spotify" and looks the same. I can distinguish between them if i browse deeper and...

Tampadoug Contributor I

Volume normalization

Sonos needs volume normalization. Even services that have it such as Spotify pandora and Apple Music are not normalized when playing on Sonos.

The7hil Avid Contributor I

Amazon Music in Australia

Amazon Music started in Australia in February but you can't seem to be able to add it as a music service on Sonos. Any updates on this?

Sonos-User-321 Contributor I

Amazon Music Error - Unable to play song not encoded correctly

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Since Sonos is deprecating the ability to play music stored in iPhones directly to my Sonos setup, I started using the integrated Amazon Music service. I have a playlist which I'm able to play a few songs fine then it doesn't at others and spits out the encoding error. And I have another which err...

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