> ## Documentation Index
> Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://docs.somosincontrol.com/llms.txt
> Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further.

# Music Services: Apple Music, Spotify, Amazon Music and More

> Set up Apple Music, Amazon Music, Pandora, Spotify, iHeartRadio, TuneIn and Bandcamp in Somos InControl, browse and search each one, and play straight to a room.

Somos InControl plays your music services straight to a room: **Apple Music, Amazon Music, Pandora, Spotify, iHeartRadio, TuneIn and Bandcamp**. Each one you have set up shows as a button at the top of the [music page](/features/music); tap it, browse, and play. The speaker streams from the service itself — your phone only tells it what to play.

<Note>
  Playing needs the service on your Sonos® system too. If you tap something and the music page says the service **isn't set up on your Sonos system yet**, add it in the Sonos® app once, then try again.
</Note>

## Setting up a service

<Steps>
  <Step title="Open the Music Services page">
    On the music page, tap **Add** at the end of the service row (or **Add a music service** when nothing is set up yet). The page lists the services with a button beside each.
  </Step>

  <Step title="Tap Connect">
    The service's own sign-in page opens inside Somos. Sign in as you normally would — Somos never sees your password. Some services show a short code to enter on their page; the row tells you when. Come back to Somos; once the service confirms, the row's button reads **Disconnect** and the service appears in the row on the music page.
  </Step>

  <Step title="Apple Music: tap Allow">
    Apple lets only the Sonos® app sign in to Apple Music, so Somos browses it from your iPhone instead. Tap **Allow** when Somos asks for Apple Music access (the row reads **Browses from this iPhone** afterwards). The speaker plays on the Apple Music account your Sonos® system already holds. Declined it? The row offers **Allow in Settings**.
  </Step>

  <Step title="TuneIn needs nothing">
    Services that need no account, such as TuneIn, read **No sign-in needed** and are ready as soon as they are on your Sonos® system.
  </Step>
</Steps>

Signing in here links the service to your Sonos® system the same way the Sonos® app does. Somos keeps the sign-in on your iPhone, in the device's own secure storage, and only for that Sonos® system.

## Browsing, searching and playing

* **Tap a service button** and the music page slides down to a handle; the service's own page opens above it — shelves, rows and grids drawn the way the service asks, with album art and station logos.
* **Open albums, playlists and folders in place.** A single back row at the top takes you up one level.
* **Search** sits at the top of every service page. Type, and the service's own categories appear — pick songs, albums, artists, playlists or stations. Results replace the page until you clear the field.
* **Tap to play.** A song, album, playlist or station starts on the room and the player comes back up. The **plus** on a song adds it to the queue instead; the **heart** keeps it in [Favorites](/features/favorites-and-queue).
* **The lit button is the service that is sounding** — it lights when you play from it, when you play a favorite from it, and stays lit across rooms and after you close and reopen the page.

## Apple Music

Apple Music offers the whole catalogue and your own library — artists, albums and playlists with their artwork. Search and play a song, an album or a playlist. Songs playing from Apple Music also show quality badges on the player (**Lossless**, **Hi-Res Lossless**, **Dolby Atmos**) — what Apple's catalogue offers for that track, not what the speaker is decoding.

## Disconnecting a service

Press and hold the service's button on the music page and choose **Disconnect**, or tap **Disconnect** on the Music Services page. This forgets the sign-in in Somos only — your Sonos® system keeps its own account for the service, and the Sonos® app is unaffected. Apple Music has no Disconnect; its access is an iPhone permission you manage in **Settings → Somos InControl**.

## If something does not play

* **"… isn't set up on your Sonos system yet"** — the Sonos® system has no account for that service. Add it in the Sonos® app, then try again.
* **The wrong room plays** — Somos plays to the room whose music page you have open; check the room name under **Music** at the top of the page.
* **The service list will not load** — Somos asks the room that leads the group. Try again from a room that is not part of a home theater, or use **Add** again; the page re-reads on every open.
* **A song is missing from Apple Music's catalogue** — a library-only song cannot be sent to the speaker, and the page says so.

<Tip>
  Which services should come next? Tap **Poll: your favorite music services** in the menu, just under Rooms, and tell the developer.
</Tip>