Play Spotify Music on Sonos with Spotify Premium Account. Spotify, as the most popular streaming music service, can be easily set up with Sonos as long as you are using Spotify Premium. To get Sonos and Spotify Premium playing together, install both the Sonos and Alexa apps in your mobile phone, then link your Spotify account in both of them, and set Spotify as your default music service. If you have been a Premium subscriber who pay $9.99 a month for an enhanced ad-free service, you can refer to the following steps to play music on Sonos from Spotify. If you are a free user on Spotify, you can directly skip to the next part to find the complete guide on streaming Spotify music on Sonos without Premium. Super Easy Set-up. Sorry to tell you that Spotify free users are not allowed to play Spotify songs on Sonos Speakers. To listen to Spotify songs via Sonos Speakers, you have to subscribe Premium membership firstly.
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Spotify is a popular music streaming service that allows listeners to have full control of the music all over their home outside the Sonos app. Spotify and Sonos will allow access to all of your existing Spotify playlists and their entire catalogue in every corner of your home. But a Spotify Premium subscription is required to access your Spotify account within Sonos. If you are a Spotify free user, you can not play music from Spotify on Sonos.
Updated: from NOVEMBER 20, 2019, free users around the world can also set up Spotify Connect with their Sonos speakers directly from the Spotify app.
This article will explain how to play Spotify music on Sonos with either Premium or free account.
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How to play Spotify on Sonos with Spotify premium?
1. Fire up the Sonos app on your phone.
2. Set up your Sonos speakers on your Wi-Fi, following the steps in the app.
3. Tap Add Music Services and select Spotify. (Make sure Control Sonos from Spotify is turned on in Settings.)
4. Fire up the Spotify app on your phone, tablet or laptop.
5. Play a song and select Devices Available.
6. Select a Sonos speaker and start listening.
You can listen on Sonos and control the music with your voice(Alexa), the Spotify app or the Sonos app.
How do I add Spotify to my Sonos with a Spotify Premium subscription?
Make sure your Sonos system and device using Spotify are on the same Wi-Fi network. Select the controller you are using for instructions on adding your Spotify account:
| Sonos app for iOS or Android | Sonos app for Mac or PC | |
| 1 | From the More tab, tap Add Music Services. | From the Music pane click Add Music Services. |
| 2 | Select Spotify from the list. | Select Spotify, and then click Next. |
| 3 | Select I already have an account. | Select I already have an account, and click Next. |
| 4 | Tap on the displayed link and login to Spotify with your Facebook or Spotify account to allow Sonos. | Click on the displayed link and login to Spotify with your Facebook or Spotify account to allow Sonos. |
How to play Spotify music on Sonos without Premium Account?
Update: Spotify free is also available on Sonos now, check this article.
With Spotify Premium, you can enjoy on-demand access to Spotify, enjoy the Spotify catalog of over 40 million tracks, search tracks, albums, and artists., play your saved songs, artists, albums and playlists, listen to Spotify Radio and browse songs by mood, genre, and occasion. If you are a free user, you can also play Spotify music on Sonos. You just need a professional Spotify to MP3 converter to break the limitation.
Ondesoft Spotify Converter allows you to strip DRM from Spotify music and convert Spotify to MP3, M4A, WAV and FLAC with lossless quality. It remains all original ID tags and convert Spotify music at a faster speed. With Ondesoft Spotify Music Converter , you are able to stream Spotify music to Sonos without Premium account.
The following is a detailed tutorial about how to play Spotify music on Sonos for free. Please make sure you have installed Spotify app on your computer.
Step 1: Download, install and open Ondesoft Spotify Converter on your computer
Step 2 : Import songs from Spotify to Ondesoft Spotify Converter
Go to Spotify to find any songs or playlists you want to convert, you can drag&drop them to the Spotify Converter directly. Or you can copy&paste the link of the song/playlist from Spotify web player. Then Click the Add button to import all songs.
Step 3 : Start Converting
Click the Options button to customize the output format. You can choose output format (MP3, M4A, FLAC or WAV), output quality (High 512kbps, medium320kbps/256kbps, low 128kbps). In the output settings, you could change the output folder as you prefer.
When you finish customization, click the Convert button to start the conversion. After the conversion, click the History button, then you will find all converted songs.
Step 4 Add converted Spotify songs to Sonos
Download the Sonos desktop Controller App(https://www.sonos.com/en-us/controller-app ) and install it on the computer. From the “Manage” menu, select “Music Library Settings”. Click + (plus) on a Mac, or “Add” if you are using a PC. Type in your computer's password if prompted and follow the on-screen instructions to complete adding your music library.
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partnership reached between Spotify and Sonos means you do not need to listen to their songs via the dedicated Sonos app, but use Spotify app instead to control your Sonos sound systems directly. But this connection is only available for Spotify Premium subscribers, and the limited beta version is available for any Sonos owner.
So how can you play Spotify music on Sonos if you are free users or just want to keep Spotify music playable after the cancellation of subscription? Here just take a look at how to play Spotify music on Sonos speakers directly through Premium subscription, and the useful tips to keep Spotify music playable if you are free user.
Method 1: Play Spotify Music Straightly to Your Sonos Speaker
Method 2: Play Spotify Music on Sonos If You Are Free User
Spotify Sonos Setup
Method 1: Play Spotify Music Straightly to Your Sonos Speaker
It is super easy to set up as the steps below.
Step 1 Launch Sonos app on your phone if you have installed it (https://www.sonos.com/en-us/controller-app), and set up Sonos speakers on your Wi-Fi by following the steps in the app.
Step 2 Tap 'Add Music Service' button and select 'Spotify' and please make sure that Control Sonos from Spotify is turned on in Settings.
Step 3 Launch Spotify Music app on your mobile phone, computer or tablet. And please make sure that your devices opening Spotify are connected the same Wi-Fi with Sonos system.
Step 4Play a song on Spotify and select Devices Available, then select Sonos speaker and start listening.
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Method 2: Play Spotify Music on Sonos If You Are Free User
As we mentioned before, the connection between Spotify service and Sonos speakers is only available for Spotify Premium subscribers, even though the limited beta version is provided. As the most popular paid streaming music service, free user has no authority to download music as local files, but there is a solution available to make the Spotify music as local files, then you can easily play Spotify music on Sonos Speakers.
Here Sidify Music Converter is your saver to make this happen and it is specially developed for Windows and Mac users to losslessly convert Spotify music to the plain audio formats as MP3, AAC, WAV and FLAC at 5X faster speed. If you have added multiple songs on your Spotify music library, just turn to Sidify Music Converter to download them to your local folder. Furthermore, all the ID3 tags and metadata will be preserved to help you organize music library.
Here we will show you how to download Spotify music to formats as MP3, AAC, WAV or FLAC on Windows PC and stream the converter Spotify music on Sonos for playback. And you could perform the same operation on Mac.
Step 1 Launch Sidify Music Converter on PC
Download and install Sidify Music Converter on PC, then launch it. And Spotify Music app will be launched automatically.
Step 2 Add Spotify Music to Sidify Music Converter
Just go to Spotify Music app and search for the music or playlists you want to download, then right-click it and click 'Share' to copy the music URL.
Then you can click on button on Sidify Music Converter to paste the music URL. Or you can Drag & drop a song or a playlist from Spotify to Sidify directly.
Click 'OK' to finish importing Spotify music. And you continue the same steps to add more Spotify music for batch downloading.
Step 3 Customize the Output Setting
You can click on button to choose the output formats (MP3, AAC, WAV, FLAC), output quality and conversion mode. To help you organize the music library after finishing downloading, Sidify program supports saving the output audio into Artist, Album, Artist/Album or Album/Artist folder for meeting various user's needs.
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Step 4 Start Download Spotify Music to the Format You Chosen
Now, you can start downloading Spotify music to the audio format you choose by clicking 'Convert' button. And you can click on 'Converted' button to find the output files after the dowloading process completed.
Now just import the Spotify music you downloaded by Sidify Music Converter to Spotify Music app or other music apps supported by Sonos like Google Play Music, Amazon Music etc, then pick a song and hit play via Sonos speaker in your room. Just choose what to play, where to play, and how loud in one room or all over home.
Note : The free trial version of Sidify Music Converter enables us to convert 3-minute sample to evaluate the final outcome for each audio file, you can unlock the time limitation by purchasing the full version.