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Spotify connect with Sonos

  • September 24, 2026
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Hi all,

I'm having a strange issue with Spotify Connect and wondered if anyone has experienced the same problem.

I have three separate rooms in the current Sonos app:

• Family Room – Sonos Arc
• Living Room – Beam Gen 2 + two Sonos SL as surrounds + Sub
• Kitchen – standalone Sonos One

All three rooms appear normally in the Sonos app and work correctly. Spotify is added as a music service in Sonos and I can play Spotify music to any of the three rooms from within the Sonos app.

However, in the Spotify Android app, the Sonos rooms generally don't appear under Connect to a device.

Today I started Spotify playback and Family Room ARC suddenly appeared in Spotify Connect and I could control it from Spotify.

The Living Room and Kitchen still don't appear as separate Spotify Connect devices.

As a test, I grouped the other two rooms with the Family Room in the Sonos app. Spotify immediately changed to show “Family Room ARC +2” and successfully controlled all three rooms.

I then ungrouped them again. All three are separate rooms in Sonos, but Spotify still doesn't list Living Room or Kitchen.

I also tried starting Spotify playback on Kitchen directly from the Sonos app and then opening Spotify, but Kitchen still didn't appear as a Spotify Connect device.

So Spotify Connect is clearly communicating with the Sonos system, but it isn't discovering all of the individual rooms.

I've already checked:

• Spotify has Nearby Devices permission on Android
• All three rooms are in the same Sonos system
• Spotify works correctly through the Sonos app
• Sonos Connection Security settings are at their defaults: Authentication OFF, UPnP ON and Guest Access ON
• All three Sonos rooms work normally from the Sonos app

Has anyone seen Spotify Connect discover no Sonos speakers but then when playing a track, only one Sonos room appears in the list while the others remain missing?

I'd particularly be interested to know whether this turned out to be a Sonos discovery issue, Spotify account issue, or network/mDNS issue.

4 replies

Mr. T
  • Mr. T
  • September 24, 2026

If you force close Spotify app and reopen, do the other Sonos rooms then appear as options?

  • LeeHudso74
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  • Contributor I
  • September 24, 2026

Thanks for your response - No they dont, no matter what i try, rebooting wifi, deleting my sonos system and starting again did also not work, just cant understand why… only when i play a track in spotify on my connected device such as my phone and then go in the list will my sonos arc will appear on its own, i then select that which works fine but still none of the other 2 devices show, i add them add to the group through the sonos app and the spoitfy will show Arc +2.

I stop music playing, force close the spotify app closed and reopen and the Sonos arc has disappeared again from the list. 

Mr. T
  • Mr. T
  • September 24, 2026

What is your network setup? Are the other rooms connecting to extenders or different nodes to the Arc?

  • LeeHudso74
  • Author
  • Contributor I
  • September 24, 2026

Hi Mr T, no extenders or mesh nodes. Everything connects directly to the same Plusnet router.

One thing that may be relevant is that I’ve previously had difficulty connecting the Sonos speakers during setup because they connect on 2.4GHz, while my router uses both 2.4GHz and 5GHz under the same network. I’ve previously had to temporarily disable 5GHz to get the Sonos speakers connected, then switch 5GHz back on afterwards.

I’m going to test later by temporarily disabling 5GHz so that my phone and all the Sonos speakers are definitely on 2.4GHz, then see whether all the rooms appear in Spotify Connect. 

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