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We’d firstly suggest simply removing Spotify as a service. You can remove Spotify as service from the Sonos app, go into the app and navigate to services. Once there, find Spotify, hold down and remove the app, once uninstalled, wait around 10 minutes. Go back into services and add Spotify again to the list of approved services in the Sonos app. 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. Download and open the Sonos app. Tap More, then Add Music Services. Select Spotify, then Add Account. Enter your Spotify account details. Download and open the Sonos app. Click Add Music Services on the right and select Spotify. Click Next, then. Spotify Free Works on Certain Sonos Speakers In November 2019, Sonos and Spotify added a feature to their respective software to let free users play Spotify music on selected Sonos speakers. This is similar to how you’d play songs from a Spotify premium account. A Spotify Free account allows you to search for Spotify artists, albums, and playlists in the Sonos app. When listening to music with a Spotify Free account, you’re limited to six song skips per hour. How do I control Sonos from the Spotify app? You can control Sonos directly from the Spotify app by tapping on Devices Available on the Now Playing screen in the Spotify app. Open the Spotify app.
In the past, you have to upgrade your Spotify Free account to Premium if you want to play Spotify music on Sonos speakers through the Spotify app. But now, since the latest update, Sonos speakers start to support Free users to stream Spotify music on it. The reason for this change is that Spotify has 248 million monthly users and more than half of which stream Spotify music with a Free account. Sonos hopes to make Sonos speakers appealing to millions of Spotify Free users by adding to feature to support Spotify Free streaming.
Since the long-awaited feature added to Sonos speakers, both Spotify Premium users and Free users are allowed to play Spotify playlist directly from Spotify (using Spotify Connect) or via the Sonos app if you prefer. However, please note, you are limited to skip six songs per hour when listening to music with a Spotify Free account. But no worry, even the Spotify Free users are able to get rid of these limits as to enjoy Spotify music on Sonos like Spotify Premium users. Read on, below we are going to show you the detailed steps about how to stream Spotify music on Sonos speakers with or without Premium account.
How to Play Spotify Music on Sonos Speaker
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Method 1: Play Spotify Music on Sonos Speaker Directly
You can control Sonos directly from the Spotify app, now we will show you how to do it.
Step 1Fire up Sonos app on your phone, tablet or laptop. Set up your Sonos speaker on your Wi-Fi, following the steps in the app.
Step 2Turn on the option of Control Sonos from Spotify in Settings, then tap Add Music Services and select Spotify.
Step 3Open Spotify app on your phone, tablet, or laptop, and please make sure the device using Spotify is connected on the same WI-Fi network with Sonos.
Step 4Play a song and tap Device Available at the bottom of Now Playing screen, then select your Sonos speaker and start listening.
Method 2: Play Spotify Music on Sonos Speaker without Premium Account
For Spotify free users, even though you can listen to artists, playlists, and albums on Sonos speaker, you can only skip no more than six songs per hour. Additionally, Spotify free users cannot download music, which will make you cannot listen to the music on Sonos speaker in some circumstances. To resolve the problem, we would like to provide you another way to play Spotify music on Sonos speaker.
First of all, we need a tool, called TunePat Spotify Converter, which can convert Spotify music to MP3, AAC, WAV, and FLAC format at 10X faster speed. It supports keeping the same level of audio quality as original music and saving the basic metadata information after conversion. The downloaded music can be played on any device including Sonos speaker or group. In the following article, we will show you how to use TunePat to convert Spotify music.
Key Features of TunePat Spotify Converter
TunePat Spotify Converter
- Download Songs from Spotify.
- Convert Spotify songs to MP3, AAC, WAC, or FLAC format.
- Easily download songs from Spotify to the local computer.
- Keep ID3 tags and preserve lossless audio quality.
- No need to install the Spotify app; support 10X faster conversion speed.
Step 1Launch TunePat and Customize Output Settings
Launch TunePat Spotify Converter on your computer, then click Settings button which shows as three horizontal lines at the upper left corner of the interface.
Step 2Add Spotify Songs to TunePat
Open one of playlists or albums and click Add button, TunePat will grab all the songs in the list, then select the songs you want to convert.
Step 3Start Converting Spotify Music
After selecting, directly click the Convert button to start converting, you will see the conversion processing of each song. Once finished, you can find the songs in Conversion History.
The songs are downloaded to your computer, now you just need to add the music files to Sonos speaker. Open Sonos app on your computer, go to 'Manage' > 'Music Library Settings', then click the 'Add' button, find the converted music and add to Sonos. After that, you can play Spotify music on Sonos without limiting.
Conclusion: Sonos allows people who use Spotify Premium and Spotify Free to stream music, but Spotify Free users don’t have the same right as Premium users. In this article, two methods are provided for people to play music on Sonos, especially the second one which is comparably affordable for people listening to music on Sonos.
Note: The free trial version of the TunePat Spotify Converter enables you to convert the first three minutes of each song and convert 3 music files at a time. You can unlock the time limitation by purchasing the full version.
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Sonos And Spotify Free
A little less than a month after giving its Premium subscribers a free Google Home Mini speaker that can be used to stream music, Spotify is now showing some similar love for the subscribers on its free tier (who, it should be noted, vastly outnumber the paid subscribers on a monthly basis — 248 million, compared to 113 million paying).
Using Spotify With Sonos
Until today, Spotify’s free users weren’t able to stream music on Sonos speakers. That changes as of today, though, with a software update rolling out that allows for access on Sonos to Spotify’s entire catalog via the shuffle feature. Listeners will also be able to access 15 personalized playlists on-demand, including Discover Weekly, Release Radar, and Daily Mix.
Among other key details to know:
- You’ll be able to stream Spotify Free either through the Sonos app or directly from the Spotify app. You can start up playlists with your voice based on their title, genre, or mood via the Google Assistant on a voice-enabled device.
- Add Spotify Free along with one of the other more than 100 streaming services on Sonos to discover even more music and content.
- How to get started: Be sure your Sonos app has been updated to the latest software, then go to Settings > Services > click Add a Service under Music & Content > Set-up or Log-in.
Given how many tens of millions of users on Spotify’s free tier, this is a great way to support both them as well as users of Sonos speakers. And as if anticipating the next moves of its users, many of whom will be holiday shoppers soon if they aren’t already now that Black Friday is fast approaching, Sonos also took this opportunity to announce some Black Friday deals on products that users will be able to stream their Spotify content on.
These devices will be available at Sonos.com as well as participating retailers nationwide and include the following deals:
- Save $140 on Sub, Playbar, and Playbase (Black Friday price: $559, regularly $699)
- Save $120 on Amp(Black Friday price: $479, regularly $599)
- Save $80 on Beam (Black Friday price: $319, regularly $399)
Spotify Free Sonos
*Black Friday deals available from midnight Eastern Time on November 28 through December 2