Alexa-Sonos

Lol; I am quite happy with that state of affairs. I have withdrawn from the public beta here because I can't be bothered with the frequent updates that entails!

I'm with you... I can't see any upside in participating in a beta. In fact I won't even upgrade to the latest production version until it has been out a few weeks and I see there are no major concerns (which hasn't been the case since about 6.2.1)

Glad you're excited for the update. Progress is going great but we're not ready to release a timeline to the world yet. It'll be out this year though. We'll make sure to let everyone know as soon as we can share more.

Sorry the original press release said 'early 2017' which is why i went ahead and spent £2000 on a set of speakers at Christmas. As its basically nearly mid 2017 is this now not the case?

Thanks

Scott Readman

Whatever the online media stated, the official Sonos press release is linked above and does not say "early". However, it is not surprising that some media folks may have assumed early 2017 because of the announced late 2016 private beta, and the usual timing of Sonos releases. I made the same mistake when discussing it here. Now it seems this release requires much more development time, as well as cooperation with Amazon, and is not following the typical timeline. Hence Sonos' official press release says nothing about "early 2017".

As to "answering in such a rude manner", I find nothing rude about my statement. It may disagree with your statement and provide an official link to back it up, but it was hardly rude.

I'd like to believe the integration is coming soon, but I'm guessing it will be much later in the year if it happens this year at all. I don't understand the ins and outs of the technology, but I do know that in Aug 2015 Audible stopped working with Sonos and though Sonos said they were working on it, it still hasn't been fixed. They recently announced it should be back by summer - fingers crossed. But that it has taken almost 2 years to fix the issue and add Audible integration back in has led me to believe that (a) the tech is way more complicated than I realized and (b) updates and changes aren't likely to come quickly.

I'm curious to see what the Alexa integration actually means. I can't tell if it's simply voice control (cool, but not a game changer) or if it will play Alexa through Sonos (which would then mean users could play *anything* on Sonos because they could connect their phones to Alexa via bluetooth and then play from through Sonos (phone -> Alexa -> Sonos). Right now I'm unbelievably frustrated by Sonos's limitations in that department.