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Youtube music voice commands please

  • May 21, 2025
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I see you support /most/ of the big music providers - not youtube yet.  There is great interest in this capability by your consumers, please add me to the list.  Had I done my research ahead of time and realized it wasn’t supported (and your app is a recovering disaster) I probably wouldn’t have bought into Sonos.

Please, fix things and offer this HUGELY used service.

Best answer by Corry P

Hi ​@JohnHennesey 

If/when such a thing happens, I am sure it will be put in a notification in the app of anyone who has SVC installed - no need for any mailing lists.

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Airgetlam
  • 44829 replies
  • May 21, 2025

I’m not sure I understand…

https://support.sonos.com/en-us/services/youtube-music

I am not a subscriber myself of this service, are you saying it doesn’t work? In what specific ways are you having issues?


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  • Contributor I
  • 6 replies
  • May 21, 2025

Totally unclear question, thank you for catching it.  VOICE CONTROL, i.e. 'hey sonos play billy joel radio'  doesn't work with YT music yet.


Airgetlam
  • 44829 replies
  • May 21, 2025

Poor reading comprehension this morning, my apologies 

 

edited!


Airgetlam
  • 44829 replies
  • May 21, 2025

And I see you did state voice commands in the topic title, which I totally ignored, my apologies… 


Corry P
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  • May 21, 2025

Hi ​@JohnHennesey 

Welcome to the Sonos Community!

Thank you - I've marked this thread as a feature request and it will be seen by the relevant teams for consideration. Keep the ideas coming!

I for one would love YouTube Music to be controlled by Sonos Voice Control as it is also the service that I have, and have been waiting for this myself.

In the interest of full disclosure, Google Assistant already supports YouTube Music, but I see you have a Era 100 which doesn’t support Google Assistant. If you can find a second-hand Sonos One (not the SL variant) for sale, you could expand your Sonos system into a new room, and be able to give the One a command to play YouTube Music on the Era 100.

A Move or Roam would also suffice (both also discontinued, like the One).

I hope this helps.

Edit: Added Move and Roam


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  • Contributor I
  • 6 replies
  • May 21, 2025

Thank you both for your replies.  One of the things I really like about the Sonos devices is they do not use the standard assistants.  I know it’s more work for you, but that’s why I threw out my Alexa - it was consuming the most bandwidth on the network - all while doing absolutely nothing.  It was just streaming all our conversations to their service.  No thank you.

I love how the Sonos processing happens locally - if you have a notification list for when this is available please add me to it.  If not, I’ll check back again.

Also - as far as investing more into the brand - I’m in a ‘wait and see’ pattern.  If Sonos can return to the successful empire it was/should be I’ll buy more.  Until then, this is just an experiment…  

John


Corry P
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  • May 21, 2025

Hi ​@JohnHennesey 

If/when such a thing happens, I am sure it will be put in a notification in the app of anyone who has SVC installed - no need for any mailing lists.