Spotify Multiroom Audio
Spotify Multiroom Alexa

The Philips SpeakerSet Multiroom Manager app helps you set up and manage your Philips Spotify Multiroom speakers effortlessly. Simply connect your new Philips Spotify Multiroom Speaker to your home wireless network. If you have more than one speaker, use the app to group the speakers for Multiroom flexibility.

Some speakers will happily stream from any music app you like, while others are limited to the likes of Spotify, Deezer and Tidal. The beauty of a multi-room system is that you can build on it.
Which is the best multi-room speaker to buy? Here are the finest we’ve reviewed. Sonos is no longer.

Spotify Connect is Spotify’s own solution for streaming music to speakers and receivers. Historically, Spotify have had clients on different platforms like Sonos, Squeezebox, Boxee, Onkyo and more. This has lead to an almost uncontrollable Spotify experience that is far from stringent for the end user. Which has lead Spotify to develop their own universal experience, Spotify Connect.

Spotify Multiroom Audio

Devices with Spotify Connect are controlled with Spotify’s native app on Android and iOS. You can also control them from Spotify on a Computer. The device has a built in player that simply plays the music it is told by the controller, by steaming it directly from Spotify.

Spotify Connect is built in speakers as well as receivers. Android and iOS devices can also act as Spotify Connect devices. So an iPad connected to a speaker can be remoted from another smartphone to play Spotify music through Spotify Connect. The same goes for a computer that has Spotify on it and is attached to speakers.

If you want to group your speakers and play the same music on them simultaneously, you have to buy the same brand of speakers. And be sure that the brand has support for grouping in an own app. This is a downside compared to Chromecast Audio where you can group speakers of different brand in groups in the Google Home App. AirPlay 2 also has the ability to group speakers of different brands. So this is something Spotify should implement in the future to keep up with the competition.

Devices with Spotify Connect

Audio Pro
http://www.musicmultiroom.com/2018/03/audio-pro-addon-series/

Harman Kardon Omni+
http://www.musicmultiroom.com/2017/09/harman-kardon-omni-chromecast-spotify-connect/

JBL Playlist
http://www.musicmultiroom.com/2017/08/jbl-playlist-chromecast-audio/

Urbanears
http://www.musicmultiroom.com/2017/03/urbanears-baggen-stammen/

Sonos
http://www.musicmultiroom.com/sonos/

Yamaha MusicCast
http://www.musicmultiroom.com/2016/04/yamaha-musiccast-multi-room/

Naim Mu-so
http://www.musicmultiroom.com/2016/03/naim-mu-qb-with-airplay/
http://www.musicmultiroom.com/2014/12/mu-airplay-spotify-connect/

Bose SoundTouch
http://www.musicmultiroom.com/2015/10/bose-soundtouch-series-iii-with-the-new-entry-level-soundtouch-10/
http://www.musicmultiroom.com/2014/12/bose-soundtouch-series-ii/

Cint Asgard
http://www.musicmultiroom.com/2015/04/odin-brings-big-sound/

Denon HEOS
http://www.musicmultiroom.com/2016/04/denon-upgrades-heos-hi-res-bluetooth/
http://www.musicmultiroom.com/2014/08/heos-denon-challenges-sonos/

Google Chromecast and Chromecast audio
http://www.musicmultiroom.com/2015/09/google-chromecast-audio-with-spotify/

Onkyo, Denon and Sony receivers
http://www.musicmultiroom.com/2015/10/3-home-theater-receivers-with-multiroom-and-4k-under-499/

Philips
http://www.musicmultiroom.com/2014/11/spotify-speakers-philips/

Ruark Audio R2
http://www.musicmultiroom.com/2015/02/ruark-audio-r2/

Samsung Shape
http://www.musicmultiroom.com/2014/08/samsung-shape-gets-spotify-connect/

Sony
http://www.musicmultiroom.com/2016/04/mobile-google-cast-spotify-connect-sony-h-ear-go/
http://www.musicmultiroom.com/2015/09/new-sony-devices/

The Kickstarter project Gramofon by FON.
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/fon/gramofon-modern-cloud-jukebox

Spotify Multiroom Alexa

Bluesound
http://www.musicmultiroom.com/2015/09/bluesound-gen-2/
http://www.musicmultiroom.com/2013/10/24-bit-audio-streaming-bluesound/

Argon iNet2+
http://www.argonaudio.com/spotify-connect/

Nocs NS2 air monitors V2
http://eu.nocs.se/products/ns2-air-monitors-v2

Libratone
http://www.libratone.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/PR_Libratone_Spotify-Connect_UK.pdf

Pioneer
http://www.pioneerelectronics.com/PUSA/Home/Spotify

Spotify Multiroom Speaker App