If you have an Amazon Echo and want to play music on more than one speaker, there’s a way to do it. You can use Sonos’s multi-room feature or Echo’s own multi-room feature. To use Sonos, first make sure that all of your Sonos speakers are on the same network. Then open the Alexa app and go to Settings > Devices. Under “Echo devices,” tap on your Echo device name. Under “Multi-room audio,” turn on “Allow other devices on this network to play music through this Echo device.” Now open the Amazon Echo app and go to Settings > Multi-Room Audio. Under “Add a new room,” enter a name for your new room (like Family Room) and choose whether you want it to be public or private. Tap Save and you’re ready to start playing music in your new room! To use Echo’s own multi-room feature, first make sure that all of your Echo devices are on the same network (they need to be in close proximity for this to work). Then open the Alexa app and go to Settings > Devices. Under “Echo devices,” tap on your Echo device name. Under “Multi-room audio,” turn on “Allow other devices in this house with an Amazon account to play music through this Echo device." Now open each of your other apps (like Spotify or Pandora) and sign in with your Amazon account. Tap the icon next to each service’s name and select “Play Music Through This Device.” You’ll now be able to play music from those apps in each of your connected rooms! ..
With your two-or-more Echo speakers on hand, let’s dive right into the painless setup process. Make sure your speakers are powered on, connected to the same network, and have easy to parse nicknames, so grouping them is painless. If you’ve never messed around with renaming your Echo products from the default naming (which is ambigious like “Jason’s Echo Dot”, “Jason’s Second Echo Dot”), check out our guide to renaming all your Echo devices with more descriptive names.
First, tap on the menu icon to bring up the left-hand navigation menu.
Next, select “Settings” from the sidebar.
Scroll down in the Settings menu until you see the entry for “Audio Groups”. Select the only entry in that group: “Multi-Room Music”.
In the Group configuration screen, you’ll select a group name along with a list of Echo devices that belong to that group. Tap on “Choose Group Name” at the top.
You don’t manually type in the name, however. Instead, pick the name you want from a very well populated list of potential group names. The very first group you should create is “Everywhere” to immediately unify your whole-house audio system.
Next, check off all your Echo devices (this is the “Everywhere” configuration, after all) and then click “Create Group”.
At this point, if all you wanted was every Echo in sync, you’re done. Otherwise, you can click “Create Group” again in the Groups screen displayed after you finish creating your first group, and create additional groups (such as “upstairs”, “downstairs”, “outside” and so on).
And boom, just like that, a single unified playlist is streaming to all available Echo devices in sync with each other. So whether your taste runs 1980s hard rock or 1780s instrumental, your entire home can be filled with your favorite tracks with a single voice command.
