google assistant play music from my library

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I don’t know if licensing fees are collected, or if Amazon/Google allows this in order bring in more customers, avoid anti-trust concerns, or some other strategic reason. “Their services” was about the services Amazon offers through their echo device, whether it be Amazon music, Spotify, Pandora, Apple, etc. Unless Google/Amazon log the use of all music streaming services activated by their voice controllers and charge other providers an agreed monthly percentage ? Or am I being too devious ? Spotify premium ) without any revenue benefit. Google and Amazon probably would have fought integration with Sonos harder if it enabled users to use their infrastructure without using their services.Īs far as I’m aware both Google Assistant and Amazon Alexa will recognise and work with their streaming competitors as music sources (e.g. Perhaps a new voice assistant will come along, one that doesn’t have it’s own music service tied to it, then will change how things can be done. I personally don’t see this changing unless there is a signficant change in the market where more people are using local libraries and/or there’s a willingness to pay for additional features. Although Sonos probably would like to give it’s customers greater access in theory, since they don’t make money off of any subscriptions, the technical burden on them would be greater, while placing the burden on Google or Amazon is minimal since they already handle this function with their own voice assistant products.Īs you stated already, the decision was surely not just technical, as Google and Amazon probably would have fought integration with Sonos harder if it enabled users to use their infrastructure without using their services. That would be a big concern for a lot of users. The technical downside to that it puts a lot more processsing burden on Sonos servers and creates some potential security concerns, since the Sonos clould would need to index your local library and generally have more access to your local network. The system/process could have been designed differently, where validation occurs on Sonos servers, which could be aware of your local library and all your streaming services. This is not unique to Google, as Amazon operates the same way. So understanding this, you can see how Google is preventing access to play your local library or some other source before it even gets back to Sonos. If everything validates, then the command is passed to Sonos cloud service, which then passes it on to your speaker to play. If you don’t have a music service Google supports, or it doesn’t recognize the music or speaker you selected, then you’ll get an error right here.

The server validates the command, making sure that it knows what music you want to play and on what speakers. Whenever you make a voice command, the command is processed in the cloud on Google’s servers. I’d say it’s a combination of how the technological works and a combination of Google wanting to support their music subscription and ecosystem in general. Is there anyway I can use voice control to play tracks from my Music Library ? I’m an old geezer and I don’t want to subscribe to a streaming service.

#GOOGLE ASSISTANT PLAY MUSIC FROM MY LIBRARY UPDATE#

I’m quite happy for google assistant voice control to tell me the weather forecast, update me on the latest news from several sources and connect me to a large number of free radio stations via Tunein. I could of course subscribe to a different streaming service like Spotify, Apple Music or Amazon Music, in which case neither Google nor Sonos would receive any subscription benefit from me. Is it simply a commercial decision by Google who hope that I will subscribe to Google Play Music, which would give them a monthly revenue stream ? It only seems to accept streaming paid-subscription Music Services e.g. I can select one of these playlists or a single track and play it on either of my two sonos one devices simply by clicking on it.īut I’m not able to do this using google assistant voice control as it doesn’t recognise my Music Library or sonos playlists as music sources.

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From the Sonos apps installed on my iPad and Macbook Pro I can manually create playlists from the music library stored on my Macbook - basically my iTunes library assembled over several years.

Google assistant play music from my library