I wish I had known that the only possible way to use a Sonos speaker is through the app. I would have bought another brand. Instead of connecting to the speaker via Bluetooth and then playing music/podcasts through the app, Sonos requires that you add your applications as a service. To do this, you have to grant Sonos access to your data, logging in to each app through Sonos. This is after the creepy request to enable NFC so Sonos can verify the speaker it's already found via Bluetooth.