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Apple Music on Sonos Now Available in Beta, Final Version Launches Early 2016
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You should not really need access control to control your kids. Just tell them to stop dog it.
No.
However, you can sign up for the free three month trial and then turn off auto renew in iTunes.
Well, would you guys care to share the songs that you've been listening to and doing this A/B testing? Because I can't hear any differences between TIDAL/Deezer/Spotify/AM
same for my wife. the next week later it came out as alpha. yes the app is simple but it works great for my blind wife she has full access. her trying to learn all the different apps and then they would change drove her nuts. spotify is useless to her and a few others have been getting worse and less accessible. I could stream from several apps on my android to sonos like airplay.
I assume you have to use the Sonos app rather than Apple Music?
If you could just use the Apple Music app with Sonos speakers that would be pretty good.
Am I right in thinking an advantage with Sonos over other similar speakers, is that with Sonos the music streams directly to the speaker, rather than streamed from a device over to the speakers?
Yeah the device gets the music from the web, not your phone. It's great. You can switch off your phone and login with another if you like. You can switch devices mid-queue if you like or have many different people all adding songs to a queue. Also you can mix tracks from Spotify, google play, hard drive and Apple Music all into one app or playlist. It is very functional if a bit boring in design, but very usable. You can group rooms on the fly and even set alarms to start playing the radio or a playlist at a particular time of day. The only downside is you can't use it to play on your device. So it will only stream to a Sonos speaker when playing. The benefit though of this is that you can stream music and visit Facebook and YouTube etc without interupting the music.
Took me a few attempts. I had to opt out of the beta on the website then back in on the app before it would let me update all the hardware to 6.1 (online updates in settings). Then the service appears in the betas section
just saying that a proper sonos setup in the house can cost a bit. I think we can agree it has premium pricing.
Sonos app has way too much taps before a song start playing. If I have searched for a song and I tap on it, I expect it to play, just like on Apple Music and Spotify, an extra tap for Play Now is really unnecessary.
This is not an Apple Music exclusive, it's all over the Sonos app. Even for radiostations, podcasts etc.
Hopefully the refresh Sonos has started with their speakers (first with the Play 5) goes all the way up to their app.
This is not an Apple Music exclusive, it's all over the Sonos app. Even for radiostations, podcasts etc.
Hopefully the refresh Sonos has started with their speakers (first with the Play 5) goes all the way up to their app.
I like Sonos products and interface very much. It was originally disappointing to find I couldn't use Apple Music but still enjoyed playing music from my iPad. Then ATV4 arrived and it all got even better. I was happy to hear Sonos was finally deploying Apple Music but figured I wouldn't use it much due to ATV. I was wrong. I find it much easier and quicker using Sonos. Well done Sonos.
Thanks mate, that should be a good workaround for now and I can give apple music a shot
The connect amp just has one pair of stereo outputs, but I've got two speakers wired to each output. I wouldn't want to hook up anymore speakers as I'd be afraid of messing up the amp or killing the sound quality. Also, that would make each room playing the same thing, at the same volume. It's nice to have the flexibility to have each zone playing something totally different.
Gonna be a long stretch for you then if electronics are off the table as soon as you add child #2 to the household. I raised five and they all graduated from college. At one point, three in college at the same time. Now *that's* when it'll get right in your pocket. This is just an insignificant warmup compared to what's on your horizon. Better take measures to stop at two if this is going to tap you out.
I think the servers are just overwhelmed. I signed up for the beta program the last time MacRumors ran a Sonos story and all the pieces were there waiting for me to activate with this Sonos update.
Works like a champ. I wouldn't be surprised if Apple sees a definite spike in Apple Music trial sign-ups as a result of this Sonos/Apple alliance.
Personally I prefer this. I hate accidentally pressing on a song to add it to a queue and have it play straight away.
Yes happy to with the added caveat that I posted later - "I believe I'm definitely noticing a difference in classical music, I listen to this working so generally in a calm state at computer with no distractions and very little outside noise. I notice no real difference when listening to other stuff (usually indie/electronica/80's/folk) but at this point I'm usually making dinner or up to non work things."
Gymnopedie No. 2 (Debussy)
Au revoir les enfants (Schubert)
Danse macabre in G minor (Saint-Saens)
Violin Concerto in E minor (Vengerov)
Brahms Symphony No 3 in F (Giuliani)
Obviously there are different versions of the above but these are the ones I listen to.
As an aside we have a Apple Music family account and I've tried setting up g/f's account as separate in Sonos but not managed yet - has anyone achieved this.
Yes. Sign into sonos through the relevant device linked to the Apple Music account you want. So I connected my account and my son's account - now it shows on both our sonos apps and we can easily switch between the two.
Cheers now done - I was being a bit of an idiot - tried setting up both from my iPhone but kept duplicating my account - used her iPad and problem solved - now have access to both.
Thanks.
The bulbs sound like a gimmick, and really, how will they sound? Sonos is fantastic. I have a few of the amps powering my own speakers in various locations in the house, as well as a Play 5 for my son's room. It's much better than Airplay and once you have it set up, you will love it. Being able to combine zones with the same music, or playing different things in different zones is fantastic.
Go to Add Music Services, then select "Sonos Labs". Under the selections there you will find Apple Music. In order to add it you must have it enabled on your iPhone, iPad, acrid device, etc.
I don't really feel like installing a bunch of speakers into a house I might not own very much longer. I have a neighbor who moved in this summer. Her mom won the lottery and bought her the house. She's into a lot of hard drugs and loves piling trash in her back yard. I'd say since September the police show up at her house on an average of at least once per week, maybe 1.5, including some type of raid on thanksgiving while my family was here involving four police SUVs. We've personally called maybe six or seven times. Hard to keep track. She loves to sit on her porch with a gun screaming at people. She has mentioned several times that she should just blow someone's head off. Just remember: anyone can be your neighbor when they win the lottery. Even a child abusing crack whore. Really. I wish I was making this up. We heard someone yelling at her once out in the street accusing her of having sex in front of her eight year old son. There's always guys coming over. One time at 2am I heard a noise outside and jumped to the window. A big guy was sprinting from their house with a baby, which he chucked in the car and flew off down the street. This is the crap I have to deal with. This is my life now. So no, I won't be installing a Sonos right now lol.
You can hook up 3 pairs of speakers to one connect:amp no problem. Once you get to 4 pairs you have to get into impedence matching volume controls which gets hairy, but with 3 pairs you have no such limitations.