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jishi
Headliner II
September 3, 2013

Spotify Connect, serious competition

  • September 3, 2013
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Spotify today announced Spotify Connect, which will be a series of hardware from well-known hardware to seamlessly integrate spotify onto devices where the control is from the regular Spotify application on your phone or similar.

Streaming is still done directly through internet, so the phone isn't in charge of it, just controls it.

I really do hope that Sonos will follow this approach as well, I believe there are a lot more like me that primarily uses Sonos for Spotify, and being able to use the same app as always would be awesome.

Seems like there is already a feature request over at ask.sonos.com https://ask.sonos.com/sonos/topics/support_spotify_connect_to_allow_users_to_use_the_spotify_app_as_the_controller
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      the_lhc
      Avid Contributor I
      October 28, 2014
      ^
      It's a very fast changing world out there..

      Sonos is crazy not to take this extremely seriously.....

      You're right on the first part, in five years time Spotify could be bankrupt, they still haven't made a profit yet (far from it). I'll take them seriously when they start showing they can make enough money to survive, their backers won't allow the losses to continue indefinitely.
      wappinghigh
      Avid Contributor I
      October 28, 2014
      I don't know what else to say..

      If Sonos users can't see why Spotify Connect isn't a serious threat to Sonos's very existence: if/once Spotify get multizone sync happening...

      Well..

      I don't know what else to say..
      logan
      Trending Lyricist I
      October 28, 2014
      Have you used Spotify Connect? What do you like about it?

      I don't know what else to say..

      If Sonos users can't see why Spotify Connect isn't a serious threat to Sonos's very existence: if/once Spotify get multizone sync happening...

      Well..

      I don't know what else to say..
      ratty
      ratty
      October 28, 2014
      If Sonos users can't see why Spotify Connect isn't a serious threat to Sonos's very existence: if/once Spotify get multizone sync happening...
      Feel free to email John MacFarlane and give him the benefit of your forensic business analysis.
      jgatie
      jgatie
      October 28, 2014
      Heeeeee's Baaaaaaaack!!!! :rolleyes:
      jgatie
      jgatie
      October 28, 2014
      Feel free to email John MacFarlane and give him the benefit of your forensic business analysis.

      If he e-mails the way he posts, MacFarlane's inbox will be filled by noon. :rolleyes:
      wappinghigh
      Avid Contributor I
      October 28, 2014
      ^ LOl..

      Ya'll just sit on ya hands here and do nothing to the Sonos experience: other than what appears to be a rather pathetic attempt by Sonos to block Spotify here..(do correct me if my impression is wrong)

      ...and watch the music streaming world pass you by...

      I don't care.

      I don't have skin in the game..

      Many of you clearly do..

      Is that Bias?

      I think it is....
      ratty
      ratty
      October 28, 2014
      I don't have skin in the game..
      Because you've sold your Sonos kit? Excellent. Bye.
      jgatie
      jgatie
      October 28, 2014
      We should have a special part of the Forum where every disgruntled / disillusioned Sonos owner can sell their equipment cheaply to the rest of us (happy/contented Sonos customers) ... while they still have the chance and the market crashes :D

      wappinghigh has been making these over-the-top posts raising a this, that, or another death knell prediction for Sonos every 6 months or so for as long as I've been here. Airplay, Apple should buy Sonos, Apple DRM, 24/96 support, Spotify Connect, Sonos should make it's own modem/router/ripper/NAS/server/etc., and on and on and on.

      And yet, he still hasn't sold his system, so looking for bargains from him is quite futile. :rolleyes:
      wappinghigh
      Avid Contributor I
      October 28, 2014
      If the problem is with Spotify (and not Sonos)..why is it that Spotify connect is available within Bluesound but not Sonos?
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