People saying they are in doubt about buying sonos for this reason are silly. im an android user and have not fine tuned my speakers, Sonos still sounds damn good. And how hard can it be to borrow an apple device. There are so many sheeps with apple stuff.
https://www.theverge.com/2019/8/9/20799366/sonos-bluetooth-portable-speaker-model-s17
I can't imagine this being cheaper than buying a compatible Apple device off the used market just for trueplay use.
Either way. It IS trivial to borrow a mates iOS device for 10 minutes and tune your speakers
You're saying the mics on the Sonos One aren't as good as the single mic on an iphone? I'm not really seeing that. I am speculating, but I think the function of recognizing a work word is partially due to the software that's doing the listening as it is to the ability of the mics. And tuning doesn't require voice recognition at all, just recognition of tones when you've told the device to listen for tones, as I understand it.
I agree with you that tuning doesn't require voice recognition, nor do I think that the mics on the Sonos one are worse than an iPhones, but the Sonos one compared to my Google home or my parents echo Dot, they are leagues behind. (you can hear the audio recordings in the Alexa app, and they're really poor quality).
I just don't think the mics in the Sonos are built for tuning like the Homepod/Google Home Max are. You would think that if they were, they would have introduced this feature already?
or maybe they're just really slow at software, I'm still waiting for Google Assistant support.
The mics on the Sonos one's I have are terrible at picking up my voice especially when they're playing music. I doubt that they're good enough for tuning.
Just ask any Android app developer/programmer. It is a nightmare making apps for Android. Compatibility issue is a nightmare. You can never make an app compatible with every Android versions floating out there. And you cannot just make an app for latest Android version either. So, stop whining. Get an iPad or borrow an iPad. Simple. Stop bitching about Android.
Only Apple has few devices. In general it’s a standard that OS can work on many absolutely different devices. So stop whining :)
Is Trueplay is gimmick or real thing?
I’m one of those “sheep” as you call me, yet there are some rooms that I’ve TruePlayed, and heard absolutely no difference, and some that I’ve heard a positive change. Frankly, right now, there’s 3 rooms in my controller that haven’t been “TruePlayed”, because I don’t feel the need.
As you say, it’s not an absolute necessity. It’s just an extra that Sonos provides, but even without it, Sonos puts out absolutely outstanding product.
Remember, there are quite a few users like you who only have Android devices, and somehow they muddle along without TruePlay use quite well.
You seriously think that you're missing out on that much, and don't have a friend who has an iOS device you could borrow for an hour?
Which only recently, I think, got the ability to be a stereo speaker, and still has no option to be part of a Home Theater speaker.
I'd be quite happy with some sort of solution for you silly Android users 🙂 Seriously, I do kind of like the concept of a microphone of known quality that could be connected to the Android. But then I'm not sure how you could make sure that the system recognized that it was the appropriate microphone, and people would end up using anything they have lying around, and then complain to Sonos about it not working.
I just may not have enough brain power (obviously, just read my posts!) to solve this problem easily. Glad it's not in my hands.
Oh great! Thx
Oh! Thx is tht so?! Then its not so much a disappointmt..:)
But because u r nt so sure when u said "I believe.." haha. Can anyone else verify tht this is so? Thx
Why would any sensible person want to spend their good money on a device that is used once and then filed away for years? It's a 5 minute job to borrow an iPhone or iPad.
Besides, as custodians of the only planet we have it beholds us all to push back on our disgustingly consumerist society.
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