Try it?I also updated my Sonos to the beta version and would just like to listen to Beats 1 without the need for an Apple Music subscription... Is that somehow possible with Sonos?
Try it?I also updated my Sonos to the beta version and would just like to listen to Beats 1 without the need for an Apple Music subscription... Is that somehow possible with Sonos?
You should not really need access control to control your kids. Just tell them to stop dog it.Wait till ur kids start messing with each others music (yes, some years to go...) and causing a 'music war'. I asked sonos if they had any access control and was sadly told no.
I also updated my Sonos to the beta version and would just like to listen to Beats 1 without the need for an Apple Music subscription... Is that somehow possible with Sonos?
Seems to be working quite ok but sadly the sound quality is really bad compared to TIDAL HIFI. I compare the same song on the same sonos system. Huuuge difference. I hope Apple soon deliver the quality we all deserve. Both the listeners and the artists. Also the beta dont include the possibility to edit the apple music playlist from the sonos App. You can ony create and edit sonos playlists. Also a disadvantage from TIDAL.
Well it doesn't sound good, but I feel it has nothing to do with bitrate as it still sounds bad playing lossless from our NAS library.
We just received the new Play:5 at the end of last week and set it up in anticipation of being able to use Apple Music. I was actually rather shocked at how poor it sounds, it isn't as good as our ancient Apple Hi-Fi, and it is not even in the same league as the B&W MM-1 we use on our desktop.
The Sonos has a sort of boomy, muddy heavily DSP'ed sound that I would liken to listening to what your neighbors are playing by pressing your ear to the wall. Passages from well known songs are often unrecognizable.
Anyways quite a disappointment. We are now thinking about something like the B&W A7 or A5.
Agreed - I'm usually listening on Sonos via Deezer Elite which means FLAC quality. I didn't expect there to be much of a difference but there is. Today's listening has been mainly classical followed by 80's indie.
Other than that I think it's a decent first integration (I've had none of the issues reported) that will get better with time. In an ideal world I'd prefer everything under one banner but not sure I'll be able to settle for reduction in quality.
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 started joining the beta a couple of weeks ago and declined. The legal documentation they wanted me to sign was over-the-top.
Working a treat here, setup very straightforward, although I wish Sonos would update their app, it's pretty clunky. Feels like it's from 1997.
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.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?
I can't seem to get it to show up in the ADD MUSIC SERVICES tab.
This is after updating the app, closing it and several attempts
So says the one with all this in their signature...
"rMBP 15" / iPad 1, 3, Air, Air 2 / iPhone 1, 3, 3G, 4, 5, 5s, & 6S+ / Imac 27" i7 2009 / Mac Mini 2010 / iPod 5GB, 10GB, 3rd gen, U2, video, 7th Gen / PC: x79 3970x 2xTitan / Nexus 7 / Note 4 / Nokia 930 / Retina MB 1.2 / SB Apple Watch / 17" 2009 MBP / iPad Pro 128 LTE"
Anyone who is as much of an Apple fan as that (or pretty much anyone on this forum) can afford a Sonos setup...
Thanks mate, that should be a good workaround for now and I can give apple music a shotNo.
However, you can sign up for the free three month trial and then turn off auto renew in iTunes.
Can you not wire them all into the Amp? I don't really know much about it - is it limited to numbers?
Why wait? a pair of Play:1 speakers are $50 off right now. I have 4 of them. I am planning to get the Playbar and sub before my 2nd kid is born and I have zero dollars to spend moving forward.
I have the same issue, not showing up in services on either the ipad, iphone or Windows PC........
No update for PC, IOS updates installed and on 6.1
Personally I prefer this. I hate accidentally pressing on a song to add it to a queue and have it play straight away.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.
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
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.
I'd really like to have a Sonos installed in my next house. Has anyone heard anything more about those lightbulb speakers that were shown off at CES last year? They use a bluetooth mesh network to communicate to each other along the way, and are powered by a light socket but I think they also had a light in them too and it's all controlled from your phone. It was a pretty neat idea and especially well suited for whole-house overhead audio.
I can't seem to get it to show up in the ADD MUSIC SERVICES tab.
I have the same issue, not showing up in services on either the ipad, iphone or Windows PC........
No update for PC, IOS updates installed and on 6.1
This is after updating the app, closing it and several attempts
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.Why wait? a pair of Play:1 speakers are $50 off right now. I have 4 of them. I am planning to get the Playbar and sub before my 2nd kid is born and I have zero dollars to spend moving forward.
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.