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ianm
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November 30, 2017

Seriously disappointed with play 1

  • November 30, 2017
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Just wanted to say how disappointed i am with the play 1 and so called alexa integration. After all the hype about this new "smart" speaker and how its going to change the game, i bought one on release day even though i have a number of speakers already.

Now, i consider the play 1 as poor, no, the play 1 is good, alexa is poor.

No napster integration.
No playing of local media files.
No facility to call other alexa users.
No alarms.
No reminders.
News flashes dont work.
Alexa chirps when watching tv too many times.

Alexa can tell me what the weather is like though, just in case i cant turn my head and look out of the window.

Really poor show from sonos here and what makes it worse is the lack of support giving hard dates when integration for more services is going to occur.
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    lesliegolf
    Trending Lyricist I
    December 1, 2017
    This is a big ole theory on Sports Update and it's me beating a somewhat dead horse like I have in other posts.

    Does the sports briefing use third party audio? Meaning, anything but Alexas voice? If so, they seem to not be working with the exception of the Sonos skill and the Flash Briefing.

    https://twitter.com/lesliefisher/status/935735288256761856

    I would like to point out since posting this tweet I have heard back from both Sonos and Amazon and last I heard this bug is expected to be fixed early to mid January and it's more a Amazon thing and their API set than a Sonos thing.

    Just a theory why sports updates might not be working.
      ianmAuthor
      Avid Contributor I
      December 1, 2017
      Just wanted to say how disappointed i am with the play 1 and so called alexa integration. After all the hype about this new "smart" speaker and how its going to change the game, i bought one on release
      Can you quote one example of something that has changed the game on release? I can't except perhaps the iPod. But even that took the launch of iTunes that followed later to do so.
      Marketing hype is rampant everywhere these days and it is the same here. What is expected is that this will change the game once reasonably evolved in the coming years - it is early days yet. What you can reasonably hope for is that your One has the grunt built into it to keep up with the evolution.

      Speak for yourself about what is expected. What i expect when i buy something is it does what it says. Voice controlled music, nowhere did i see that it had to be from a limited number of streaming sites.
      Support have said that most of the things i mentioned are not supported, yet these were the things in the hype. Who wants to buy my car, it has a super turbo charged engine built from gold. Well it may be built from gold, thats if we can get the gold manufacturers to make it in a few years but dont let that stop you from buying it.
        UKMedia
        UKMedia
        December 2, 2017
        Just wanted to say how disappointed i am with the play 1 and so called alexa integration. After all the hype about this new "smart" speaker and how its going to change the game, i bought one on release
        Can you quote one example of something that has changed the game on release? I can't except perhaps the iPod. But even that took the launch of iTunes that followed later to do so.
        Marketing hype is rampant everywhere these days and it is the same here. What is expected is that this will change the game once reasonably evolved in the coming years - it is early days yet. What you can reasonably hope for is that your One has the grunt built into it to keep up with the evolution.

        Speak for yourself about what is expected. What i expect when i buy something is it does what it says. Voice controlled music, nowhere did i see that it had to be from a limited number of streaming sites.
        Support have said that most of the things i mentioned are not supported, yet these were the things in the hype. Who wants to buy my car, it has a super turbo charged engine built from gold. Well it may be built from gold, thats if we can get the gold manufacturers to make it in a few years but dont let that stop you from buying it.

        Your analogy to a car is interesting with regard to the Sonos One. You are comparing a product launch of the first AI agnostic speaker against technology that has been established and developed over 100 years. I agree that there are elements of Voice Control that I would like enhanced but I can also see a steady improvement and launch of new features that are being rollout free of charge to existing users, without the need to trade in for a newer model!
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