They are two different technologies.
Alexa play in all rooms.
To set up multiroom audio open the alexa app and select devices from the bottom right corner.
While it may not have the level of integration with music services that sonos offers alexa s multi room music is one the most affordable ways to play the same song through the entire house.
You most certainly can.
You just cannot group both echos and sonos together.
How to play music on all or some of your amazon alexa speakers at once you can set up multi room audio in a snap with help from alexa.
First create a group to house the echo devices you want to include in the multi room playback.
Use the alexa app to create a multi room music group.
All you need to do is tack the name of the target speaker onto the end of your command like alexa play the beatles in the kitchen of course you ll need to rename your kitchen s echo dot.
Audio from video content does not play on multi room music groups.
Then just ask alexa to play music on the group and the sounds are piped to all the devices in that.
I have 5 rooms of sonos gear and a group called everywhere in which i have added and preferred all my sonos speakers.
Select and set up multi room music.
Tap the icon in the top right and select set up multi room music.
To test this try standing in a room where you have just created an alexa enabled group and say alexa turn on the lights if the command works you are all set.
Alexa can play music from streaming services such as spotify pandora and.
Use the present group names or select custom name and create your own name.
When i say alexa play david bowie everywhere i get ziggy stardust playing in all those rooms.
With alexa multi room audio and samsung customers will simply be able to ask alexa to play their favorite music in any room of the house using only their voice.
The most affordable way to extend alexa to multiple rooms is to buy the echo dot and extend it with the remote.