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by rconti 700 days ago
My Sonos Era 100s have the alexa integration and have my spotify account linked to them. You just gave me an idea!

... except, my Sonos Roam responded, and started playing. Not my stereo pair of era 100s on my desk. Let alone all the speakers in my house.

tried again. "I didn't find anything called "office speakers" in your music library". To be fair, she suggested setting up multi-room in the alexa app, which I suppose I could do.

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ha, this is too typical. we have a super poor man's version of multi-room speakers (two shitty-sounding echos!) and whenever I try and throw the music from one to the other with a voice command Alexa just doesn't get it. I end up just going back into Spotify and manually tapping on the other room. of course now you have me fantasizing about having the sound of Sonos speakers; glad to hear someone has enough sense to optimize their music-listening experience.
Sonos Voice Control is better for any multi-room control, and it seems to work near flawlessly - probably because of the small domain it operates in.
Thanks for the tip, installing now. Combination of too many toys and being too much of a luddite means I never played with it. Or knew it existed.