The point here is that voice control is an entirely new prospect for
Sonos users.
Trueplay is a new software feature that will arrive to
all Sonos users as an over-the-air update.
For all the other more than 80 music services that the speaker manufacturer supports, including Apple Music, Bandcamp and SoundCloud,
Sonos users can still use voice commands to control playback (saying commands like pause, skip and volume up or down), they just need to first queue up the song using the Sonos app.
Sonos has released the over-the-air software update that allows users to play music directly from the Spotify app, rather than just through the Sonos app.Until now,
Sonos users were required to sign into their Spotify Premium account via the Sonos app... Read more
Rolling out from today as a beta, the social networking addition comes in Sonos System Software v3.1 and will be available to
all Sonos users later in the fall.
As nice as the One is, most existing
Sonos users have little reason to spend the $ 200 to add it to their system.
The TIDAL music app is on the receiving end of an update that adds an important feature for
Sonos users: the ability to control their speakers from within the streaming app.
Whenever the service goes live, Audible will offer
Sonos users two credits if they sign up for a 30 - day free trial through the app, instead of the single credit it usually offers.
As a long time
Sonos user, voice controls have long been on my wish list.
Outside of those Playbase - specific options Sonos provides everything
a Sonos user would expect: Multiroom audio support with other Sonos speakers, access to over 30 audio stations — including Spotify, Pandora, and Amazon Prime — and music stored on local devices and attached network devices.
I've not spent sufficient time with Google Home Max to make a clear comparison, but as a long - time
Sonos user I was mighty intrigued to hear how Apple's speaker compared.
«As
a Sonos user who's also an Alexa user, I like being able to combine the two platforms.
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The update also heralds the arrival of the Slacker Radio to the
Sonos systems of North American
users.
The company's even offering a test space called «
Sonos Labs» where
users can sample music service betas before final release.
In late March, Android
users running 2.1 and above, who also happen to own a
Sonos set - up, will be able to control their various zones using their phone or tablet.
Stating two is better than one,
Sonos offers
users a huge savings on its
Sonos One device.
At launch,
users can ask Amazon Alexa to control
Sonos One out of the box, with full voice support for Amazon Music, iHeartRadio, Pandora, SiriusXM, and TuneIn.
The company now claims 75 million monthly active
users — up from 60 million in 2015 — and is supported across over 200 connected devices including via platforms like
Sonos, Cortana, Tesla, Bose, Roku and Xbox One, as well as Echo speakers.
Stating two is better than one,
Sonos offers
users a huge savings on its
Sonos One device.
Sonos will be a much more
user friendly system, and offer more streaming services, but in your system you would be using a CONNECT piece most likely.
That goes double for anyone who already owns
Sonos components, and triple for Amazon Echo
users.
And for a
user like me, it makes expanding the
Sonos experience to other parts of the house more palatable.
The technology is very similar to
Sonos» TruePlay, which is a software feature that will allow
users to tune to the room environment.
TIDAL, of course, is the music streaming service that offers
users access to high - quality audio, the kind that pairs well with a high - quality
Sonos speaker.
With the rising popularity of
Sonos One smart speaker,
users want to stream music services other than Amazon.
In that case, Pandora
users are able to control their
Sonos speaker using the controls within the music service's app.
Rather than setting its sights on
Sonos, Apple is reportedly prepping an Amazon Echo rival that will give
users access to Siri in addition to letting them stream music to a high - quality speaker.
Spotify Connect is also somewhat hobbled for Spotify Free
users, with many devices not working unless you're a Spotify Premium member, including
Sonos.
If you're having problems updating macOS High Sierra because of «legacy FileVault
users,» the problem might actually be
Sonos.
Sonos One allows
users to wirelessly connect their multiple speakers.
That changed today with the actual, official, guaranteed - real - this - time launch of Audible support for
Sonos speakers, making it easy for
users of both products to listen to their audiobooks through their sound system.
It is super easy for any
user to set up
Sonos using home Wi - fi; it takes only five minutes and you can expand your home audio system over time by adding wireless speakers to additional rooms.
If you're a Plex
user with a couple of
Sonos speakers lying around, you'll currently have to be enrolled in
Sonos» public beta to start streaming your Plex library through your setup.
Wink
users can add basically any
Sonos speaker to their Wink Hub 2 and control it through Wink's smart home app, just like you'd add a new light bulb or thermostat to the system.
With the reinvention of the
Sonos speaker comes a redesign of the
Sonos app, and current
users will have a lot of unlearning to do.
Bang & Olufsen has announced its new BeoLink Multiroom offering which aims to connect its products, for music that follows a
user round the home.The idea behind the BeoLink Multiroom is to turn older B&O products into a modern audio solution akin to
Sonos»... Read more
The
Sonos One is basically a version of its Play: 1 speaker, except that the One is powered by Amazon's Alexa allowing
users to access the thousands of Alexa skills available and to control their speaker with voice commands.
Sonos is so beloved by its
users because its the true definition of a product that just works.
Sonos has updated its Android and iOS apps to bring new features to the company's wireless music system.The new update is expected to be officially available at the end of April for Android and iOS
users, but will be able to be tried by Android
users... Read more
Sonos is offering an amazing deal to all its registered
users in the UK, US and Germany.
If superior sound is the heart of
Sonos» design philosophy, simplicity is the backbone of its
user experience.
Users will be able to control their
Sonos via Spotify in the next few weeks.
Sonos can't promise
users their devices will continue to work if they don't agree to the company's new data collection practices.
The new streaming standard will allow
users to control
Sonos speakers with Siri.
Sonos also announced an immediate software update that will allow
users of an Alexa - powered device, like the Amazon Echo, to control their
Sonos speakers.
The top of the
Sonos One has capacitive controls, allowing the
user to adjust the volume, skip or go back a track, as well as play / pause.
Deezer announced today that its streaming platform is now fully supported by Alexa, allowing Premium +
users to use Amazon's Echo smart speakers and other Alexa - compatible devices like the
Sonos One, to control media playback with their voice.
It's the first time
users can truly verbally control music playback on a
Sonos product.
The software is designed to allow
users to place their
Sonos speakers wherever they like, even a cupboard, and still achieve good sound quality.Trueplay... Read more