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NollindProminent Collaborator I
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Can You Play Your Own Playlists on Apple Music via Sonos Voice?

Can someone else confirm that they are able to play their own custom playlists on Apple Music using the Sonos Voice Assistant?For some reason, it keeps telling me to setup Amazon Music when I try to play one of my custom playlists on Apple Music (which have the exact same names as the custom playlists I had on Amazon Music which I’m no longer using).So either the Sonos Voice Assistant can’t play custom playlists from Apple Music (which would be weird) or the Sonos Voice Assistant is remembering (caching) that I previously used Amazon Music and is stuck somehow using that (even though I’ve removed it as a music service). Yet when I ask the Sonos Assistant to just generally “play Elton John”, it does so using Apple Music without any problems. So it’s just an issue when trying to play a custom playlist.

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gildorContributor I
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Voice command - radio station

How can I turn on the radio station via voice control? There are more stations with the same name.

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Joao.R.MartinsContributor I
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Sonos one 2 gen Portugal

Hello,Is it possible to use Google Assistant of Sonos One 2 gen in Portugal?

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blueblac92Contributor I
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Sonos keep saying "your Spotify account needs to be linked first" when it is linked

Hi, My sonos beam keep saying "your Spotify account needs to be linked first" even though it is linked on google assistant/google home.  My beam worked just fine with Spotify, but for some reason suddenly stopped and keep throwing this error.  When I use Sonos app on my phone and click Spotify and play music on the app, it will still play though. Only when I am trying to play Spotify using voice command, it won’t work. (when I ask Sonos to play music on youtube, my other music provider, it will play through the voice command though)  When I use my google assistant with my mobile device and ask it to play Spotify, it will play so it’s not a google assistant issue.  Could you please check if there’s a way to fix it? i’ve linked and unlinked Spotify on google assistant, uninstalled and installed all relevant app (google home, assistant, Spotify, Sonos...) Thanks  

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Shayne ShepherdContributor I
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Voice Control Weirdness

I have two issues/questions regarding voice control I am hoping to solve.The first is when I ask Sonos to turn my tv on (Arc connected to Vizio m55-c2 tv via arc) it turns on the TV but the input is switched to the hdmi that the Arc is connected to, showing a weird black and white screen saver. Is there a way to make the TV come on with voice and stay on the last hmdi input it was set to? Second, using my firestick TV remote voice control to do anything causes the TV to switch to the hdmi input the ARC is connected to with the same black and white screen saver? What is going on here? Thanks.

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Crunch89Contributor I
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sonos all of sudden male voice comes thru

Says it can't stop music while in tv mode and I didn't ask it anything. 

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jalexandratosContributor I
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Feature Requests

Digging the privacy angle of your Sonos Voice Control. Would love to see it supplant other services. Any chance of considering the following feature requests:Set alarms via voice Set timers (multiple, please) — really useful in the kitchen Intercom functionality (speak a phrase/announcement and have that play on all Sonos speakers — including S1 if possible) Multiple voice recognition & service linkage — or at least a way to specific when instance/account of a music service to play (ie Apple Music - mine, Apple Music - yours, etc…)Regardless of the above, you’re off to a roaring start. Keep up the great work!

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Gaston BAContributor I
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I move from one city to another but my system behave as its on previous place

I was living in San Miguel de Tucumán. I recently moved to Yerba Buena. My ARC was in my bedroom. In my bedroom was a lamp that I turn on and off with a Google Home Mini. Both, Arc and light, where on the same Bedroom, so the order “Turn on the light”, just turn the correct bedroom light.Now my Arc is in the living room on my new house. But when I ask the temperature, all my google devices answer with my new city temperature, but Arc answers with the previous city location. And when I ask “Turn on the light”, I get “I cannot find bedroom light”, even I place both, ARC and Lights, in a new room called Living.I’m lost on where to change something so the Arc recognizes it’s in the living room.Thanks

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lachieContributor I
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Sonos voice control

Why cant i control spotify from sonos vouce control or use gooogle assistant to control spotify through sonos

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RobG5Contributor I
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Media account mismatch

“Sorry, the media account and the Google Account” do not match. Even though they do! Factory reset of device but same problem. Incredibly annoying problem that a lot of people seem to have. How can this be solved?

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JSC-DKContributor I
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Development suggestion - Temp. Vol. Increase

HiWhile I enjoy the new voice commands very much for modifying playback. I often end up asking for increased volume on great track, but forget to turn it down again.Suggestion: Voice command: “(Hey Sonos) This is a great track!”Response: Volume increase to a (in app?) set value, but for the remainder of the song only. For the next track, volume should return to whatever it was before.

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netswipeContributor II
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SVC - Easy Requests

There are some basic functions I am missing:Set a sleep timer increase/decrease Volume here (like in this room) Play this everywhere (like Group everything) Set a timer (in general)and… of course… I am missing Spotify.Apart from that - its great!! Thank you!

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ListenerJContributor I
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‘Play new album’ bug?

When saying ‘Play the new album by [artist]’ Sonos Voice Control plays a random track instead of starting at the beginning of the album. Is this a known issue or related to a setting I’m unaware of?

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Djm3955Contributor I
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Sonos Roam - Sonos Voice Assistant does not work whilst music is playing

Hey Sonos used for work well on my Roam speaker, however over the last week or so - it fails to work if something is being played from the speaker. It’s almost as if the microphone is disabled once music plays automatically.  The voice assistant works when nothing is playing - once playing it doesn’t pick up any voice commands (not matter how loud I shout!). If I manually pause, I sing the buttons at the top - it will then recognise my voice again.  I am aware of the doable microphone button and this is not the issue.  Can anyone help! It’s really annoying 

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MikeiContributor I
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Sonos Voice Assistant keeps "not understanding" when my wife is not talking to it.

We have Sonos in most rooms in our home. I've turned on the voice assistant in most of those rooms. Unfortunately, it keeps chiming in on my wife's 'regular' conversations in the house. Not me, just her. Anytime she says a word that contains or starts with a hard 'S', it will respond with that it doesn't understand and to check with the Sonos app. Well, frankly, we didn't ask you, and it's getting creepy!Since this is an edge device with no cloud component, how can we possibly troubleshoot this?

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xnigelxEnthusiast I
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SVC + Pandora control

Has anyone figured out how play a pandora station with voice control? I tried setting pandora as my default music provider but i cant get it to play anything from it. Im using the free version so i only have the stations. TIA

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DeanShawEnthusiast I
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sonos voice smooth radio

Tried asking Sonos to play Smooth Radio and it doesn’t recognise it, ask Alexa, plays it no problem. Any reason?

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dollarlongnecksContributor I
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SVC & Muted Speaker - No audio feedback but it functions... Bug or 'Feature'?

As the title states, when a compatible speaker is muted, when using “Hey Sonos” there is no audio indication that it heard the command, but it appears to function as normal - at least in the sense that the action requested doesn’t rely on any audio feedback.Is this functioning as expected, or should the voice/responses be audible when the speaker is muted?

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flasuncoAvid Contributor I
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Turn off spoken answers, use sound cues instead

Hello, as with any other voice assistant, I’d really like to see a minimal response option where I don’t get a spoken answer that’s twice as long as my command, but rather just a simple “pling” sound. Personally, as much as I like Giancarlo’s voice, I need voice assistants to be as unintrusive as possible - especially with “quick” commands which are used often, like volume control or grouping. UX-wise, a “pling” conveys a positive feedback as well as - or even better than - an actual answer. Any further ideas and discussion welcome.

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JackFlyContributor I
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How vocal control works with goups

Hi,It seems that Sonos doesn’t understand the vocal command “Hey Sonos, play lounge music on the ‘rez de chaussée’”.Rez-de-chaussée is a group I created (it means : downstairs).It doesn’t works on any group (Étage, Partout or Rez-de-chaussée).I have the last version of Sonos App Beta.Thanx for your analyse.BR

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gfree1Contributor I
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No sound from ceiling speakers and cannot delete "Fixed Volume"

I have a system that is six years old in my home theater room. I have floor mounted speakers that work; however, the two ceiling speakers do not. My iphone app says the volume in that room is “fixed volume”. Can anyone offer advice before I reach out to Sonos directly?

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dr1818Avid Contributor I
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Transliterated foreign languages

I want to listen to some foreign language radio stations which are in Sonos Radio - with transliterated titles. I can not get it to recognize my voice with those radio stations. Any advice? Is there a way of creating my own labels? Thanks

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CarlRJContributor II
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SVC could use a "status" request command

Sonos Voice Control has a "what's playing" command, which is helpful, and there's apparently a way to check the battery level on battery powered speakers.I'd like to see another command added, something like "status", that would give more "state" information about my speakers (I can think of these offhand - there may be more):current Volume level current setting of Night Sound toggle current setting of Speech Enhancement toggle maybe which speakers/rooms, by name, are playingThe volume level would be particularly helpful - one can ask for louder or softer, or for specific volume levels, but I'm probably never going to ask for specific volume levels (even if I want to make a substantial change) without knowing what the volume level is *now*. Yes, I could look in the controller app. At that point, SVC has already lost, because if I have to open up the app, I'll just change the level there.

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kvangorkContributor I
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Are all of your speakers working for SVC grouping commands?

I’d love to know your experiences with the Sonos voice control grouping commands. It’s been wildly inconsistent for me, and support is stumped. Maybe we can find a workaround together.Using many permutations of grouping commands (e.g. “Add <product name>”, “Group <product 1> and <product 2>”, “Remove <product name> from group”) some products work great, and others are inconsistent, regardless of which phrasing I use.Sometimes it silently fails (but the music goes back to normal volume when it stops listening, so I know I did wake it up), sometimes it says "I can't locate that, please check your product names in the Sonos app."For a long time I thought it was fine for one-word names but failing on with two-words, but then “Living Room” and “Dining Room” started working along with “Kitchen” and “Office.”Consistently failing:Front Room Master Bedroom Master Bathroom(Could these be reserved words? I might try renaming later and will update if anything changes.) Upda

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Abs2mlContributor I
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alexa says she will play radio but dosnt

I’ve had Sonos one speaker with Alexa for years. I ask her to play Virgin radio or even bbc radio 1 or 2 and she says “playing virgin radio from Lianne’s radio” then plays nothing.  it was working the other day, any ideas. 

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