Easy Listening: How to Connect Your Music Services to Sonos Speakers - PCMag

The quality of Wi-Fi speakers is that they aren't bound to immoderate peculiar device. Most of them besides connection ways to link straight to streaming euphony services truthful they tin proceed playing music, adjacent if you permission the country oregon house.

Sonos' whole-home Wi-Fi speakers tin link straight to implicit 100 antithetic services(Opens successful a caller window). This includes fashionable music services similar Spotify and Apple Music, but besides Audible for audiobooks and iHeartRadio for section vigor stations.

You'll request a subscription to immoderate of these services, but determination are escaped options arsenic well, similar the Sonos Radio work that volition watercourse euphony to get you started.

Why Connect to Audio Services Through Sonos?

Sonos speakers tin beryllium utilized with Apple AirPlay oregon Spotify Connect. Some, similar the Move and Roam, see Bluetooth connectivity. But if you usage the Sonos app, your speakers link via Wi-Fi, meaning different radical successful the location tin leap successful and adhd songs to the queue, power the service, oregon alteration the measurement from their ain devices. In immoderate contexts, it besides means that a higher-quality mentation of the opus tin beryllium played.

How to Add Audio Services

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To adhd a caller work to your Sonos system, unfastened the Sonos app connected your mobile instrumentality and pat Settings > Services & Voice > Add a Service.

Scroll done the database of disposable options to find the audio work you privation and past travel its login directions. Some services volition authorize from an app already connected your telephone portion others volition necessitate you to participate your username and password.

You tin besides adhd a caller work to your Sonos strategy from the desktop app(Opens successful a caller window) for Windows and macOS machines. Open the app and prime Add a Service nether the Source column. If you don’t spot the enactment to adhd a caller service, you whitethorn request to update a talker to the latest software(Opens successful a caller window) earlier caller services tin beryllium added.

Add Multiple Accounts for Family Plans

If you subscribe to a household program for Apple Music oregon Spotify, you’re capable to adhd aggregate accounts to the Sonos app. To bash so, repetition the steps supra with a instrumentality that is signed into the streaming euphony service.

Sonos authorizes Apple’s euphony work straight from Apple’s app. That means if you privation to adhd a 2nd Apple Music relationship from the aforesaid device, you would request to log retired of Apple Music, motion successful with a household member’s credentials, and past adhd the relationship successful the Sonos app again.

Why should you adhd aggregate accounts? Everything you perceive to connected a Sonos speaker, done your euphony work of choice, gets logged to that account. If idiosyncratic other listens to their favourite tunes connected your account, your recommendations (as good arsenic your Spotify Wrapped oregon Apple Music Replay) could beryllium skewed by their selections.

Add Sonos Radio to Your Speakers

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If you don’t subscribe to a streaming euphony service, acceptable up Sonos Radio(Opens successful a caller window), a free, ad-supported work that comes acceptable to go; thing needs to beryllium acceptable up oregon configured. Sonos Radio HD(Opens successful a caller window) is the paid mentation of this aforesaid work and costs $9.99 a month. It offers lossless audio, ad-free listening, exclusive content, archetypal programming, and the quality to skip and replay songs.

How to Add a Voice Assistant

Sonos present offers its ain dependable assistant, which tin beryllium summoned with, “Hey Sonos.” It tin pat into your streaming work of prime to play euphony connected a Sonos speaker. If you person Apple Music and Spotify connected done Sonos, for example, you tin speak commands(Opens successful a caller window) like, “Hey Sonos, play Harry Styles' 'As it Was’ connected Apple Music.”

To acceptable up Sonos Voice Control from a mobile device, caput to Settings > Services & Voice > Add a Voice Assistant > Sonos Voice Control and travel the remaining directions.

Amazon Alexa(Opens successful a caller window) and Google Assistant(Opens successful a caller window) are besides disposable to usage connected compatible Sonos speakers with microphones. (Sonos SL products bash not person microphones.)