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What's happening in the world of music and digital media? What are you listening to this week? #NowPlaying

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Kumar
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Blast from the past!

Nostalgia from the BBC about how we listened to the music in the past makes for interesting reading. See the bit about how useful a pencil w...
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Niraj.Shr
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Interesting article in WIRED about SONOS

https://www.wired.com/story/sonos-nick-millington-exclusive-interview/
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Kumar
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Recommended music - other than classical and pop

I am not sure there is a thread on what Sonos is truly about - the music, so this might be an interesting thread. I have left out classical...
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Bowers & Wilkins appears to stumble with its multiroom ambitions

May, 2016: A multi-room B&W system, then? In an interview with CEPro, Yu seemed to confirm as much. “What I want for my own living room has not been created,” he said. “There’s components, like some good interfaces and really good high-end audio/video. If I could buy it, I would, but it hasn’t...

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catsailing Contributor II

Suggestion: add music player capability to Sonos app

I’ve been looking at how to link my Sonos system to my Bluetooth headphones for playback.  The it struck me, if the Sonos app had music player capability then the problem would be solved as the OS would take care of the rest.

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sedorr Contributor I

I Want Earphones

I have a huge investment in Sonos, with a playbar, a boost, a play 5 (2nd gen), 2 play 3s, a one, 4 play 1s, 2 connect amps, a connect, and now a move.  I absolutely LOVE the ability to move around the house and have the same thing playing in all or any rooms, or different things playing in various...

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Notarj1 Contributor I

Radio Paradise
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Is there a way to add Radio Paradise to the Sonos menu anywhere in order to be able to have a shortcut to stream Radio Paradise?

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Bodisyfer Contributor I

Software update misinformation

So thanks to your string of e-mails over the last 2 weeks about how the future WON’T support my leagacy products Play 5 (1) and connect. I went out and upgraded my connect to the Amp. I now find out today (E-mail from CEO) that you WILL still be supporting these old products and you will be keeping...

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cpg828 Contributor I

sonos damages reputation

(Copy of an email I just sent Sonos)  Dear Sono  I have an extensive Sonos system (read: spent a lot of money). No one at Sonos mentioned buying expensive stereo equipment that would go obsolete in a few years . I bought my 5 in February of 2019!!!  You are thieves. . So now I have to replace my wh...

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2 months ago
Stanley_4 Local Superstar

Submitting Reviews

I’ve seen several posts suggesting that you submit reviews, no problem with that, but be careful that the reviews are accurate as many sites that accept reviews have very harsh penalties for submitting false ones or ones with incorrect information. Amazon as an example has been known to remove all y...

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Landerson Avid Contributor I

Interesting interview with main product guy Millington, maybe sheds light on recent events

With Sonos on my mind at the moment (!) I idly googled and found this: https://www.wired.com/story/sonos-nick-millington-exclusive-interview/ Millington sounds a really great guy, but two things stood out: #1 - "Personally, I'm incredibly proud of the fact that you can use the latest iPhone and our...

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Bose to close all North American, European retail stores

https://www.bizjournals.com/boston/news/2020/01/15/bose-to-close-all-north-american-european-retail.html   I can’t remember the last time I went to a mall, where most of these were surely located.  High overhead, I wonder why they’ve kept them open so long?  I think Sonos only has two or three store...

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tommyrot Contributor I

Snips acquisition - likelihood that a local voice assistant will run on existing Sonos One hardware?
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Curious whether a successful implementation of Snips technology (from the recent acquisition) will mean this: Sonos launches a local network only voice assistant (their language around privacy and the Snips features supports this) That this local voice assistant will run on existing Sonos One hardwa...

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User654247 Avid Contributor I

Streaming Quality Limitations
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I subscribe to The Premium Primephonic streaming service which I use through Connect to a reasonably high end system. I would have signed up to the Platinum service but there seems little point as Sonos doesn't support 24bit FLAC. This seems to be a limitation as other streamers like Tidal are offer...

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NeedSleep Enthusiast II

Sonos sues Google

Sonos is getting quite litigious, Denon, bluesound, now Google and soon Amazon https://www.nytimes.com/2020/01/07/technology/sonos-sues-google.html

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TommyCayucos Contributor I

Transferring iTunes Playlist to Apple Music
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Recently, SONOS announced that it was going to stop supporting playing music from "on this iPhone" in the near future and that Apple Music was an alternative. So, I created an Apple Music account and was able to upload the music from my iTunes app located on my PC to the Apple Music cloud. However...

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G in sweden Contributor I

New Upgrade offer

I just got the new upgrade offer and to be frank I am a big shocked. It seems like an environmental disaster policy of the highest order. The only thing I can think of describing it is an evil plan for getting us to buy more stuff and throw away stuff that works. I have a perfectly working old play...

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3 months ago
melvimbe World-Class Superstar

Sonos acquires Snips

Below is the a link to a news article about it.  Article contains link to Q4 statement and other sources.   https://www.theverge.com/2019/11/21/20975607/sonos-buys-snips-ai-voice-assistant-privacy   Here’s a link to the Snips website:   https://snips.ai/   So of course,the big question is...why? Ins...

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4 months ago
Stanley_4 Local Superstar

2019 Q4 Shareholder letter

Interesting reading, don’t know who posted the PDF or how long it will be there.https://s22.q4cdn.com/672173472/files/doc_financials/2019/Q4/FINAL-SONO-Q4-and-FY2019-Shareholder-Letter-112019(1).pdf

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Jodie83 Contributor I

Apple Music
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I’ve just bought the Sonos One. How do I get Alexa to play my playlists from Apple Music? I can physically select music to play off Apple Music but when asking Alexa she won’t play, something about Amazon Music is mentioned

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Kumar

Recommended music - other than classical and pop

I am not sure there is a thread on what Sonos is truly about - the music, so this might be an interesting thread. I have left out classical because that deserves a thread of its own and modern pop because it all sounds the same to me. I have Phil Keaggy strumming Solitude from his Acoustic Sketches...

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brttlt Avid Contributor I

Recommended Music: Rock, hard Rock or Metal

Looks like a lot of other genres have been touched on but haven't seen this group yet. I'm new to Sonos...had my Play 5 for a month then it lost its WiFi ability...they are sending me a new one. Love the sound, but from these genres, what has really stood out to play on my Sonos? Thanks

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5 months ago
ratty

Archimago's latest musings on MQA and HiRes

A trenchant critique from someone who always comes across as resolutely supportive of the science. http://archimago.blogspot.com/2019/09/musings-democritization-doublethink-mqa.html (The older related threads here, with subscribers who might be interested, are either locked or hornets' nests that...

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6 months ago
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Amazon Plans High-End Echo

The company plans to release the new Echo by next year, according to people familiar with the product. Prototypes of the cylindrical speaker are wider than the current Echo to squeeze in additional components including at least four tweeters, said the people, who requested anonymity to discuss an in...

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jackben55 Contributor I

HBO GO sound quality issues using Fire stick
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So I have had my sonos for over a year. I am using a play 5 gen 1 that has a stereo patch cable connecting it to the tv. I am an employee with a home integration company so it’s no where near my first time using this product. About 2 weeks ago I noticed that only the HBO GO apps sound quality has ch...

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6 months ago
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Braun reinvents its classic speakers with Google Assistant to compete with Sonos

These are cool. Hard to beat Dieter Rams design esthetic. They remind me of Braun's uber cool version of my QUAD ESL-63s, miniaturized. Oops, nope, the original was a version of the earlier QUAD ESL-57. https://www.digitaltrends.com/home-theater/braun-new-le-wireless-smart-speakers/

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6 months ago
Airgetlam

New hardware coming? August 27 & 28 Press events

Interesting tease here: https://www.engadget.com/2019/08/08/sonos-fall-event-IFA-2019/ Seems odd that no FCC popups have occurred yet, but I'm not one to be looking for those kinds of things, I count on others in our community for that 🙂

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Ravica3 Avid Contributor I

Was I the Only One Waiting to Hear a Sonos Announcement Today?
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I've seen a lot of web articles from the normal tech sites talking annot Sonos Event that should have happened today. Everyone thought Sonos would be announcing new speakers during this 2 day even but I haven't heard or seen anything at all.

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