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Play a sonos playlist using sonos voice control

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How can I get the hey Sonos command to play one of my Sonos playlists. Whenever I tell Sonos to play the playlist it automatically goes and play some radio station or other. Not very helpful so far.

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Mike HAnswer

Retired Sonos Staff

Hey @Joel-RhinebeckNY, Sonos Playlists are now supported, as per the latest update to SVC 1.1.

It will also prioritize your Sonos Playlists vs your Music services. So saying “Hey Sonos, play 80’s Hits” Will pick your playlist with that name, over for example Apple Musics.

You can read more about it here: We are introducing Sonos Voice Control version 1.1.

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Ken_Griffiths

The playlist ‘ideally’ needs to be part of the default music service set for SVC in the Sonos App. Local libraries are not (yet) supported. So perhaps save the playlist to the music service instead using its native App.

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Mr. T

Sonos playlists are not supported by Sonos Voice Control.

You can only request playlists that are through one of the supported music services.

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Ken_Griffiths

Note: you can save playlists to any of the ‘other’ music services supported by SVC, but if they are not set as your default MSP service, you will need to include the MSP name in your instruction too. eg..

"Hey Sonos, play Joel’s Top Tracks playlist from Spotify"

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sjw

Local Superstar

Sonos playlists are not supported by Sonos Voice Control

Weird that SVC doesn't support Sonos's own Playlists.

"Hey Sonos, play Joel’s Top Tracks playlist from Spotify"

Similarly that that works as I didn't think Spotify was supported yet by SVC (but don't yet use it - may actually move to S2 tomorrow…...)

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Ken_Griffiths

Sonos playlists are not supported by Sonos Voice Control

Weird that SVC doesn't support Sonos's own Playlists.

"Hey Sonos, play Joel’s Top Tracks playlist from Spotify"

Similarly that that works as I didn't think Spotify was supported yet by SVC (but don't yet use it - may actually move to S2 tomorrow…...)

Ah you’re right @sjw - Spotify isn’t supported (not yet at least), that’s my mistake (sorry🙏). I’m seeing just these 5 supported MSP’s - that will teach me to look before posting.

Amazon Music
Apple Music
Deezer
Sonos Radio
Pandora

Thanks for pointing that out.

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Mike HAnswer

Retired Sonos Staff

Hey @Joel-RhinebeckNY, Sonos Playlists are now supported, as per the latest update to SVC 1.1.

It will also prioritize your Sonos Playlists vs your Music services. So saying “Hey Sonos, play 80’s Hits” Will pick your playlist with that name, over for example Apple Musics.

You can read more about it here: We are introducing Sonos Voice Control version 1.1.

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Kumar

Hey @Joel-RhinebeckNY, Sonos Playlists are now supported, as per the latest update to SVC 1.1.

It will also prioritize your Sonos Playlists vs your Music services. So saying “Hey Sonos, play 80’s Hits” Will pick your playlist with that name, over for example Apple Musics.

You can read more about it here: We are introducing Sonos Voice Control version 1.1.

So this will also get a Sonos playlist made from songs stored on a local NAS to start playing?

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sjw

Local Superstar

I updated my Roam (does SVC get updated as a part of that - I can't see a way to update that) but when I ask it to play a playlist it says before it can do that I need to subscribe to a music service.

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Joel-RhinebeckNYAuthor

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Eureka! It works perfectly.

Thank you, SONOS team for making this update and improving my Sonos system.

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Thanks, JoelW

controlav

Lead Maestro

Hey @Joel-RhinebeckNY, Sonos Playlists are now supported, as per the latest update to SVC 1.1.

It will also prioritize your Sonos Playlists vs your Music services. So saying “Hey Sonos, play 80’s Hits” Will pick your playlist with that name, over for example Apple Musics.

You can read more about it here: We are introducing Sonos Voice Control version 1.1.

So this will also get a Sonos playlist made from songs stored on a local NAS to start playing?

Sonos Playlists live on the speakers, you are referring to Imported Playlists, which live in the local library.

Sonos haven’t said anything about voice support for local libraries that I have seen.

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