Plan
Premium Family
Country
UK
Device
iPhones se, 11, 7, Sonos new generation
Operating System
iOS 14
My Question or Issue
Hi There,
We have multiple Sonos devices at home (Sonos One, Five, Move etc) and we have Spotify family with 4 active accounts (Me, Wife, Kids). My family are comfortable using the Spotify connect app on iOS. We would like to use that to play our music on our Sonos system. We would like to be able to play different music in different rooms simultaneously.
Like many other people we have a problem that despite starting off with our individual accounts logged in on Spotify Connect on our respective phones and all the Spotify accounts configured on Sonos, eventually everyone ends up with my primary account logged in on their phone, playing music through that.
This inevitably ends up with people cutting off other people's music in the house and out and about. It also ruins my recommendations.
I believe that it would be possible to use the Sonos iOS app with Spotify and make sure the correct account is selected each time, but it's not as fully featured and doesn't meet our needs. I also understand that I can airplay from an iOS device to Sonos but I would like to make use of native Sonos capabilities. Also I don't want to have to police everyone and make sure that they are using it "the right way" - it doesn't make for a good experience.
I've looked through the queries here and on the Sonos site and I've yet to see a good description of how to live with Sonos/Spotify family/Spotify connect that avoids this issue. My feeling is that this configuration is not workable but if someone can explain how to get a Spotify account to "stick" to an instance of Spotify Connect I would be overjoyed.
Many thanks,
Mark