

The company disclosed that the system would also be getting Amazon Alexa voice control at the same time. Joining the Beta Open the Play Store on your Android device Search for the Spotistats app Scroll down on Spotistats page until you see the Join beta. (Of course the beta doesn't have sortable search results by default, either, because that would be an actually useful thing.) I think the UI is a step back from the current one, everything feels a bit to big. Sonos announced the feature at a press conference in August 2016 and said it would be widely available with an update in early 2017. The spotify:search: prefix trick to getting sortable results doesn't work in the beta. While Google Cast and Sonos speakers are able to be grouped among themselves unfortunately they aren't able to be grouped together. Sonos is the latest service to enable the system after Google Cast support was added last year.

Spotify Connect is the streaming service's proprietary connection protocol which enables users with compatible speakers to control their music and adjust volume over wi-fi. Somewhat dangerously you can also control the speakers remotely - which is great if you want to scare the cat while you're at work. If you choose to play music to a Sonos group then all of the chosen speakers will playback simultaneously. PT Sarah Tew/CNET Spotify has announced Spotify. Once Spotify is enabled via the Sonos app, users can stream to any Sonos speaker on the network, as well as create groups of speakers from within Spotify. Sonos has released its latest beta which enables Spotify Connect to be used to control the range of speakers.
