Honest Review of integrating Alexa into Sonos (new to both)

almost never works for me. I like alexa for other things, but sonos integration feels like an early beta.

Alexa works well for other things now - from all accounts it took a couple of years to get to this stage. Sonos will also take some time getting the integration to the same level of a stable utility, which is why I suggested end 2018 to have a go at it as a normal product for those that have no desire to part of a development project.

I’ve noticed as of late the pandora/amazon music playing only one song issue has stopped. It seems both had updates as of late. I imagine that it may have had something to do with it.

Also I don’t understand why people say this is a development project or that it’s in beta. Doesn’t that ship sail once you start selling commercial hardware to the masses?

Also I don’t understand why people say this is a development project or that it’s in beta. Doesn’t that ship sail once you start selling commercial hardware to the masses?

Nope. Sonos runs public betas of their software all the time, on hardware a decade old. In this case, the software in beta is the Sonos Alexa skill.

But now they are selling and marketing a hardware product with Alexa software built in. It’s different.

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Nope. Sonos runs public betas of their software all the time, on hardware a decade old. In this case, the software in beta is the Sonos Alexa skill.[/quote]

Not in my mind it isn't. Agree to disagree. Regardless, it IS a beta. It was announced as a beta, and is currently listed as a beta. Whether that is poor form or not is another discussion.

But now they are selling and marketing a hardware product with Alexa software built in. It’s different.

That is a fair point for people buying into Sonos for the first time and having no idea about things like public betas; it takes exposure to Sonos and being open to it that confers the knowledge about things like betas, public or otherwise.