Most people are drawn to Sonos for its vast audio streaming options, but it’s also possible to play your own audio files via line-in, Bluetooth, AirPlay, and network-attached storage (NAS). As for Spotify, you can play Spotify on Sonos with Sonos app, Spotify Connect as well as NAS drive. Here in this article we will introduce 3 ways to connect and play Spotify on Sonos. Keep reading.
Adding Spotify to the Sonos app allows you to play your music without having to switch between two different apps. First, you need to add Spotify to Sonos app.
Sonos supports Spotify Free and Spotify Premium accounts. When listening to music with a Spotify Free account, you’re limited to six song skips per hour.
iOS or Android:
Mac or PC:
If you have a Spotify Premium family subscription, each family member can add their own account by following the same steps on their devices.
Pros:
Have all services quickly accessible in one app.
Good for local music.
Support Mixed service playlists.
Cons:
No podcasts on the Sonos app.
Search results are limited to only a few matches.
Doesn't support enhanced playlists.
Can't load very large playlists.
Unfortunately, Spotify still doesn't compatible with Sonos own virtual assistant - Sonos Voice Control.
Until Sonos voice control natively adds Spotify, you may add Alexa as a voice assistance to Sonos, add Spotify as a default Music service to Alexa and use Alexa to play your stuff on Sonos.
If you have iOS device, you could install Sonos app and then play your library or playlist using Siri or Shortcuts.
Spotify Connect is the most universal way to use Sonos Speakers since it is working directly from Spotify on any platform. It's very convenient to just change output from internal speaker/headphones to Sonos and vise versa. You can control Sonos directly from the Spotify app by tapping on Devices Available
on the Now Playing screen in the Spotify app.
This is handy for your visitors because they can play their Spotify music to your Sonos speakers without Sonos app.
and select your Sonos speaker or group.
Pros:
More control, better navigation.
Keeps playing random songs at the end of the playlist.
Sound quality is the same when streaming with Spotify Connect and Sonos app. For Premium users, both Spotify Connect and Sonos app will stream at 320kbps.
Sonos also supports local music. You’re able to play music via Bluetooth to a Roam or Era speaker and then pass that audio to other Sonos speakers that are part of your system. But if you don’t want to lose any audio fidelity, line-in or a NAS drive are your best options.
Sonos also allows you to stream your local music library from any computer, or network attached storage drive , to your Sonos system. Supported audio formats include: MP3, MP4, M4A, WMA, AAC and HE-AAC, OGG, FLAC, ALAC, AIFF, WAV. How to add your music library using the Sonos app for macOS or Windows:
Download Spotify to MP3 and save them on your computer, you can then stream them to Sonos as local music. This will help you get rid of ads, shuffle play and limited skips if you have Spotify free. All you need is a professional Spotify to MP3 converter.
Pazu Spotify Converter is a powerful Spotify music downloader tool that allows you to download Spotify music to MP3, M4A, WAV, FLAC, OGG and AIFF with high quality. Pazu Spotify Converter is the best choice to get Spotify Premium free .
Follow below steps to download Spotify music to MP3 and then stream from your Sonos music library .
Download, install and run Pazu Spotify Converter on your Mac or Windows. Log in your Spotify account with the built-in Spotify web player.
Use the integrated Spotify web player to search the songs, album, playlist or podcast you want to download. Click the Add to list button to load all songs in the album or playlist, uncheck the songs you don’t want to download if there are any.
Click the gear icon on the top right corner. Here you can select output format (AUTO(M4A)/MP3/AAC/FLAC/WAV/AIFF), choose output audio quality, customize the output path, organize the output files in various ways, rename output files and more.
Click Convert button to start downloading the Spotify songs to your local computer.
Once the conversion is done, you can find your Spotify songs downloaded as local files by clicking below folder button or directly going to the output folder you customized in the previous step.
Now upload the downloaded Spotify songs to Sonos with above steps and play them on Sonos.
If you use Plex, you can upload the downloaded Spotify songs to Plex and then stream them on Sonos. You can directly add Plex as a Sonos service.
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