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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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      jgatie
      jgatie
      October 28, 2014
      In a Judge Judy type of situation in resolving a dispute between two parties (and there clearly is one here) usually it's one party that "owns" the problem..

      So who owns the problem here do you think?

      Spotify..who can now stream from their music service via their own GUI/menu structure pretty much to any device they now want...

      or

      Sonos who can now only stream music services one way within their own confined environment?

      Well since Sonos most certainly CAN stream music from outside their environment, i.e. the Google Play Music app, Judge Judy would toss your entire premise out the window as being facts not in evidence.
      the_lhc
      Avid Contributor I
      October 28, 2014
      Sonos who can now only stream music services one way within their own confined environment?

      Sonos is not a music streaming service, they're never going to stream anything outside of their own environment are they?
      wappinghigh
      Avid Contributor I
      October 28, 2014
      Well we shall see..

      Time will tell who really has the problem here I guess.. 🙂
      jgatie
      jgatie
      October 28, 2014
      Well we shall see..

      Time will tell who really has the problem here I guess.. :)

      Sir, you have been complaining very vocally about Sonos for 7 freaking years! Serious question: If there are so many better alternatives out there, why the heck don't you sell your gear and get something else? It certainly would cut down on the obviously massive amount of stress you experience from being an owner of Sonos.
      logan
      Trending Lyricist I
      October 28, 2014
      I was pointing out that in a monetary sense, it is not Sonos holding out for big bucks in order to support it, because Sonos receives no income from services. So that eliminates one very large way you could place the fault on Sonos.

      You are implying something based on what Mr. McFarlane said which may or may not be true. He only said that Sonos receives no cut from music service subs, he didn't say they wanted no money for allowing Spotify connect access.
      logan
      Trending Lyricist I
      October 28, 2014
      Sir, you have been complaining very vocally about Sonos for 7 freaking years! Serious question: If there are so many better alternatives out there, why the heck don't you sell your gear and get something else? It certainly would cut down on the obviously massive amount of stress you experience from being an owner of Sonos.

      Why do you insist on replying. If you ignored him he would have moved on by now. Oh wait now I see your game.
      the_lhc
      Avid Contributor I
      October 28, 2014
      Why do you insist on replying. If you ignored him he would have moved on by now. Oh wait now I see your game.

      I'm not sure that's entirely the case, wappinghigh revived this thread 4 months after the previous reply had been posted completely unprompted by anyone here and he does seem remarkably capable of holding a conversation all by himself. I don't think anyone replying to him or not is really the point that he's trying to achieve.
      logan
      Trending Lyricist I
      October 28, 2014
      I'm not sure that's entirely the case, wappinghigh revived this thread 4 months after the previous reply had been posted completely unprompted by anyone here and he does seem remarkably capable of holding a conversation all by himself. I don't think anyone replying to him or not is really the point that he's trying to achieve.

      Ok but why reply then? People copy pasting their usual provocateur replies is just as bad if not worse IMHO. But feel free to feed him, I think JG is trolling also IMHO.
      nathan_h
      Avid Contributor I
      October 28, 2014
      Does anyone still use Spotify? :)

      In the US, Deezer is lossless and just slightly more expensive if one buys "in bulk" (big chunk of time).

      Beats is working on rolling out $5 monthly lossy streaming.

      I guess I agree with the OP premise if all one cares about is Spotify streaming. Otherwise, it's trolling.
      jgatie
      jgatie
      October 28, 2014
      Does anyone still use Spotify? :)

      In the US, Deezer is lossless and just slightly more expensive if one buys "in bulk" (big chunk of time).

      Beats is working on rolling out $5 monthly lossy streaming.

      I guess I agree with the OP premise if all one cares about is Spotify streaming. Otherwise, it's trolling.

      I do find it curious that the latest flurry of posts about Spotify Connect (at 320kbps) being the imminent downfall of Sonos is by the very same person who predicted back in 2007 that lack of 24/96 hires capability would be the imminent downfall of Sonos. I dare say his market analysis is not one I would follow if I wish to make any cash.
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