X Sonos user here, I obviously missed something and cant find or understand adding a "Spotify connect speaker" to my WiiM Group of speakers.

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I'm actively trying to figure this out but I'll post here also so sorry...

I'm almost complete with my multiroom setup consisting of a WiiM Pro Plus with a pair of Audioengine HD3's & a Cambridge Minx X201 sub, three Audio Pro A10's (2 WiiM edition), one C5A and one C10 (WiiM edition). I also have a JBL Authentics 300 that seems to be compatible with Spotify Connect, Alexa, Google & Airplay. I guess I incorrectly assumed it would show up in the Spotify connect list and I could add it to my group from there....

So what am I missing? Can I shoehorn this speaker into my WiiM speaker group somehow or does it have to be physically connected to a WiiM device?

(in another post I stated I was getting rid of both of my regular, non WiiM a10's but I decided to keep one)
 
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So, what's currently missing is just the ability to add the Authentics 300 to a group you can stream to from Spotify?

To the best of my knowledge Spotify doesn't provide any means of grouping devices. You can either stream to a WiiM group (defined in the WiiM Home app), which already appears in Spotify like one device. Or you can stream to a Googlecast group (defined in Google Home).

Since the Authentics 300 cannot be part of a WiiM group (I suppose) but does support Googlecast, you would have to set up a Googlecast group containing all your devices in Google Home and use Chromecast instead of Spotify Connect for streaming from Spotify.
 
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The JBL has nothing to do with WiiM/Linkplay AFAIK so why would it show up in WiiM and be grouped etc.

Can you add a WiiM mini to the JBL?
 
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harkpabst said:
So, what's currently missing is just the ability to add the Authentics 300 to a group you can stream to from Spotify?

To the best of my knowledge Spotify doesn't provide any means of grouping devices. You can either stream to a WiiM group (defined in the WiiM Home app), which already appears in Spotify like one device. Or you can stream to a Googlecast group (defined in Google Home).

Since the Authentics 300 cannot be part of a WiiM group (I suppose) but does support Googlecast, you would have to set up a Googlecast group containing all your devices in Google Home and use Chromecast instead of Spotify Connect for streaming from Spotify.
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Lol, I'm literally trying this right now but of course its not going smooth...
 
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harkpabst said:
So, what's currently missing is just the ability to add the Authentics 300 to a group you can stream to from Spotify?

To the best of my knowledge Spotify doesn't provide any means of grouping devices.
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Agreed.
harkpabst said:
You can either stream to a WiiM group (defined in the WiiM Home app), which already appears in Spotify like one device.
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So you’re in effect streaming to the main device which just so happens to be in a Linkplay/WiiM group that Spotify is unaware.
harkpabst said:
Or you can stream to a Googlecast group (defined in Google Home).
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Or you can also stream to an Alexa MRM group from Spotify

harkpabst said:
Since the Authentics 300 cannot be part of a WiiM group (I suppose) but does support Googlecast, you would have to set up a Googlecast group containing all your devices in Google Home and use Chromecast instead of Spotify Connect for streaming from Spotify.
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I think the issue here is trying to construct a venn diagram of the different grouping mechanisms each device can support, but in the case of the devices quoted I don’t see that Venn diagram overlapping for all devices to find one sweet spot.
 
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Burnside said:
Agreed.


So you’re in effect streaming to the main device which just so happens to be in a Linkplay/WiiM group that Spotify is unaware.


Or you can also stream to an Alexa MRM group from Spotify



I think the issue here is trying to construct a venn diagram of the different grouping mechanisms each device can support, but in the case of the devices quoted I don’t see that Venn diagram overlapping for all devices to find one sweet spot.
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Can use AirPlay for group playback on all devices?
 
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Well, for whatever reason Google will not setup on this JBL speaker.... Alexa setup with no issues but the Google app just wont find the speaker.... Of all tech I play with Google always continues to suck.
 
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Well I finally got Google Home to connect to the speaker but there seems to be no method of getting everyone in the same group so that's disappointing.... I thought I had read somewhere that this would work but I must have misunderstood.

I guess I screwed up and should have went with an A15 portable.
 
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vdp said:
The JBL has nothing to do with WiiM/Linkplay AFAIK so why would it show up in WiiM and be grouped etc.

Can you add a WiiM mini to the JBL?
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I didn't expect it to show up in WiiM group but I mistakenly assumed I was able to group them all together by Spotify or Google cast. Honestly this shit gets confusing and I'm starting to miss Sonos, lol.
 
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