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Will Sonos support Apple Classical?

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March 30, 2023
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Apple has recently released a new music app called Apple Classical. It is solely for Classical music and solves the unique challenge of searching for classical music.

Here’s a good outline of the service:

https://www.wsj.com/articles/apple-music-classical-app-3325c6ba?st=rkiu2rgyqygxozh&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink

I hope Sonos will support this on their app.

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Best answer by Corry P

Hi @Michael_274

Welcome to the Sonos Community!

Thank you - I've marked this thread as a feature request and it will be seen by the relevant teams for consideration. Keep the ideas coming!

It is, however, ultimately up to Apple to add the new service - I recommend that you also make the request to them.

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brglaser

Lyricist I

Everyone take a deep breath! I’m excited for Apple Classical too. Fortunately there is an easy process to play those songs through Sonos.

Apple Music and Apple Classical share the same playlists. So go into Apple Classical, choose your Brahms or Beethoven, and add those songs to a new playlist. Now go to Apple Music and, surprise, your new playlist is included in all your other playlists.

Assuming you’ve already connected Apple Music to Sonos, simply go into Sonos and select your new playlist to play your classical tunes in Sonos.

melvimbe

Hi @Gdawg_piano & @orzel

You can add any of literally hundreds of music services to your Sonos systems and we could not possibly maintain each integration ourselves…

As much as we may sometimes like it to be otherwise, we do not dictate to Apple what they will or will not do. As paying customers, however, you can do exactly that.

So, it’s up to Apple to do it, and it’s up to you to let them know that they should - there is power in numbers, and if enough of you request it, it will be clear to Apple that it’s “what the people want”.

I hope this helps.

Sorry what’s this now? I had to double check you are a sonos employee!

no, telling us that it is OUR responsibility to coordinate and facilitate adding access to a major streaming platform is absurd.

Corry did not suggest anything like ‘coordinate and facilitate’. He’s just saying that making the request known to Apple directly will have more impact that Sonos trying to convince Apple to get it done, or trying to collect and pass on that information to Apple. If Apple decides they want to do this, I’m sure Sonos staff will happily assist in whatever way they can.

It’s pretty much like saying if you want Company X to make an iOS app, don’t ask Apple to make it happen, go talk to Company X. Apple has already done all the integration and such on their side they can to make it happen.

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haikuluke

Avid Contributor I

Or, how about someone who has an actual financial relationship with Apple use the influence of that relationship to place pressure on Apple, rather than relying on a company which has no financial ties at all, and couldn’t influence a trillion dollar company like Apple if it wanted to?

Sonos has no financial relationship with Apple? They don’t count on classical music lovers to be stoked to be able to buy Sonos speakers because they integrate with Apple classical? That seems like a missed opportunity!

jgatie

Sonos has no financial relationship with Apple? They don’t count on classical music lovers to be stoked to be able to buy Sonos speakers because they integrate with Apple classical? That seems like a missed opportunity!

Not directly. Unlike those who actually pay Apple for their service, Sonos neither pays Apple, nor receives income from Apple for their implementation in the Sonos app. So, unlike the subscribers, Sonos holds no leverage over Apple's willingness to improve that implementation. Would they benefit? Possibly, though the market for classical is dwarfed by that of pop, rap, and even rock or country. Can they influence a trillion dollar company by requesting "pretty please" to receive those benefits? Come on, be serious, lol.

As an aside, I always get a kick out of people who will spend the time to make multiple posts arguing about Sonos' responsibility to do xyz instead of the actual subscribers, whereas using the time it takes to make just one of those posts to instead go and lobby the actual service (where it will do the most good) is somehow an impossibility. It's such a strange dynamic.

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Sparroworks

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I want to listen to classical music on my Sonos speakers - if I do it using the regular Apple Music app then all is good but that app is very deficient when it comes to finding things to listen to. On the other hand the Apple Classical app is better at finding music and sharing information about it but I can’t use it other than by listening on my phone (poor speakers, tiny and tinny) … in which case why have I spent money on Sonos equipment? Some people here seem to be suggesting that it is possible to play music from the Classical app on Sonos speakers without using the Sonos app … how is that done? Would someone care to share the secret please - I really don’t want to be faffing around with playlists. Thanks.

Belly M

Sparroworks - use the Apple Clasical App and then Airplay to Sonos speakers.

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daleengle

Lyricist I

I use airplay to cast to my Sonos Roam speaker, and then put that speaker in a Sonos group which includes non-airplay compatible Sonos speakers. It’s a little bit of a pain, but it’s definitely cheaper than buying a new airplay-enabled Sonos speaker.

Hopefully Apple will soon step up and do the API work so that we can use the native Apple Classical app without workarounds.

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