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On shelves in stores and arriving at your homes if you pre-ordered, the Sonos One is available today. Read more about the all new Sonos One here. Take a look at our blog on voice and the smart home by Joy Howard. Want to order yours today? The Sonos One is shipping now. Make sure you’ve updated to Sonos version 8.1 to add your Sonos One to the system. To setup your new Sonos One with Amazon Alexa. Just use the Sonos app and follow the steps to add the player. Then, select the Sonos skill in the Amazon Alexa app. For full steps, take a look here. Once that’s done, you’ll be all set to play music, get news and answers, manage your smart devices and enjoy the wide selection of Alexa skills using your Sonos One. Find out more about Alexa and Sonos here.

Sonos version 8.1, the supporting software for the all-new Sonos One, the smart speaker for music lovers, is now available. Sonos One will be available in stores on the 24th, and brings Amazon Alexa to Sonos, now with great sound and for hands-free control of your music and more. You can connect Sonos One with Amazon Alexa easily over Wi-Fi. Just setup the speaker, select the Sonos skill in the Amazon Alexa app. For full steps, take a look here. Once that’s done, you’ll be all set to play music, get news and answers, manage your smart devices and enjoy the wide selection of Alexa skills using your Sonos One. Sonos and Amazon Alexa are constantly working and updating the integration with new features, services and skills, your music and voice options will keep getting better over time. Voice control for Sonos with Amazon Alexa is currently supported in the US, UK and Germany. The Sonos One is future ready for voice control in other countries when Sonos and a voice service launch together locally. Learn more http://www.sonos.com/en-us/shop/one.html Minimum OS requirements: Android 4.3 or later iOS 9 or later macOS 10 or later Windows7 or later Partially Supported Controllers Sonos apps on these older operating systems are not fully supported. Android 4.0/4.1/4.2 iOS 8 MacOS 10.9(Mavericks) After Updating to 8.1, you can still browse, search and play music on your Sonos system. But you won’t be able to use these older systems for less common tasks like adding new speakers, modifying your music services, or setting up a brand new Sonos system. You can use a device that meets the minimum OS requirements for these settings. Also, please note that the Sonos CONTROL/CR200 does not update to 8.1, but can still browse, search, and play music on your Sonos system.

Sonos version 8.0 is introducing a brand new controller for iOS and Android. The new Sonos app makes it even easier to navigate, access, and control your music throughout your home. This new app comes side by side with voice control through Alexa devices, more about that here. Check out our blog for the Remastered Sonos App. Full details on the new apps can be found here on their respective product guide pages. Let’s take a look at the new app: Introducing Navigation with Tabs: The Sonos app now has five tabs visible at the bottom when not in the full playing screen. The tabs are My Sonos, Browse, Rooms, Search, and More. See here: Now your most used options are available with just one click, and Now Playing is always just one tap away. My Sonos We’ve consolidated all your personally curated Sonos Playlists, music service playlists, and Sonos Favorites into one, easy to use page on the Sonos app. You can edit fields to move around the order, or delete them entirely. You can now have up to 40 favorites total, up from 32. Browse Browsing your music is even easier as it no longer hides your other options. You can browse and move to different rooms all while keeping your place in the browsing menu. There’s also a dock on the bottom of the app that gives you easy access to the navigation tabs. You can swipe it up to reveal it at any time, then back down. We’ve separated browsing your music and the menu for Settings, so it’s even easier to find what you’re looking for. Rooms The menu starts highlighted on the active room, featured right on the app so that it’s even easier to see what’s playing in each room. There’s now an icon on that screen to show you where the music is coming from too. That includes if it was started by Alexa. The active room has a Group button to have it add others to the party. Search It hasn’t changed, just moved to an easy to find spot. More... All the settings and options are in here. You can add services, make alarms, get some help, and access all your settings. We think this will make it a lot easier to find what you’re looking for. And speaking of settings… Explicit Language Filtering Within Settings > Parental Controls, you can set a system-wide setting to filter songs with explicit content. Right now, this is working for Apple Music, and we’re hoping to add it for more services soon. Once the setting is on, Apple Music songs with the explicit tag will no longer play on your system. Long Press to Group Making it even easier to play music. With 8.0, you can press and hold the Play/Pause button (or mute on older players) to have your player join the most recently active player as a group. First, you have to start playing music on a player, (it can be from an alarm or any other source), and then just hold the button for a few seconds on another player. That second player will join the first one’s group and start playing the same music in sync. There's another function of the long press, and that's being able to move recently stopped music to another room. First, stop playing music in any of your rooms. Then, press and hold the play/pause on another player for a few seconds. (Make sure that you don't start playing music anywhere else.) The queue or source will move to the unit you held the button for and start playing. The players won't group together and any existing queue will get whiped out in place of the new one. iOS 11 and Android O Support Lastly, version 8.0 has support for the latest operating systems from Android and iOS. This includes iOS 11 support for Trueplay on Sonos. Trueplay isn’t available on Android at this time.

Available on October 24th, Sonos One is the smart speaker for music lovers. It’s everything you expect from a Sonos speaker, and now with built-in Alexa and microphones, you can control your entire Sonos system with your voice. With seamless control, you can start music with your voice, add songs to your playlist from the Sonos app, and even start playing music from the Spotify app in a different room. Amazon Alexa comes built into the Sonos One, and we’re working hard to include more voice assistants in the future. First up will be Google Assistant. Sonos One delivers rich, room-filling sound in a compact size. Two Sonos One players can be stereo paired, or become rear surround speakers in a 5.1 set-up. They’ll also be able to control the music on PLAYBASE or PLAYBAR while being set up as surrounds in the home cinema. Some more details on Sonos One: We use echo cancellation technology, created by the same engineering team that worked on Trueplay, which allows the speaker to still hear you over the music – even if it’s cranked up to 11. The volume will intelligently lower, or “duck” when you speak to it so you don’t feel like you have to shout over the music. The speaker includes a six-mic array that forms a beam and focuses on the person speaking to help make sure Alexa understands everything clearly. Since this is a Sonos speaker, you can use TruePlay on an iOS device to easily tune Sonos One to sound great no matter where you place it in your home. Capacitive touch controls on top, like Play:5 gen2 and the PLAYBASE, that you can tap and swipe. There's also a Mic button that can be tapped, to easily enable and disable the microphones. Features a Join button and an Ethernet port on the back of the player. Security and Microphones Your security and data are very important to us, as we said in our blog here. With Sonos One we are keeping to that. Sonos One is designed with extra security: An illuminated LED indicator light ensures you always know when your speaker’s microphones are active, or turned off. You can tap on the microphone symbol to enable or disable the microphones, the light is always tied to the microphone’s status. For security and privacy reasons, it’s impossible to disable the LED when the microphones are turned on. Pre-order today on Sonos.com in stunning all black or all white for $199 US (€229 EUR, $299 AUD, $269 CAD, ¥1,680 RMB, 1,699 DKK, 1,999 NOK, 1,999 SEK, $4,999 MEX), available worldwide starting October 24. Sonos One is voice-ready in the US, UK, and Germany. It’s everything you’d expect from a Sonos speaker to start with, and future-ready for when Sonos and a voice service launch together in your region if you’re located somewhere else. While you wait, check out our community thread here to get yourself ready for the new Sonos One. Already have Alexa devices in your home? Check out our thread here.