So Sonos opening up its speakers to third party apps is huge. There is broad support for music services- even Microsoft Groove is in there-but it starts to break down when you turn to podcasts.

The other issue with Sonos Controller is that you’re stuck with whatever services it supports. But who really needs that feature? (And who would want to lock the resulting playlists to Sonos?) This is both good and bad: Though I find Sonos Connector to be terribly designed and hard to use, it does let you mix and match playlists from multiple services. If you do not, then here’s the short version: To date, Sonos has been a closed system, meaning that you must use the firm’s Sonos Connector app (on Windows or mobile) to play music through their speakers.

If you use Sonos, you understand why this is a big deal. Sonos announced in late August that it would open up its connected speaker systems to third party apps. And it needs to come to other music services immediately. For the past few months, I’ve been testing a new capability that integrates Spotify Premium with the Sonos connected speaker system.

Control sonos from spotify app