I've always loved my Sonos multi-room speaker system. It's a near perfect combo of size, fidelity and wireless convenience. My single beef has been that using Sonos speakers meant using the Sonos app as a controller. And it works well, I missed some features that I enjoyed on Spotify and other music apps.
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Sonos is opening control of its popular wireless speakers to Spotify, Amazon and likely other streaming audio services.
At a New York City event today, Spotify and Sonos announced an integration that will allow Spotify Premium users to control their Sonos sound systems directly from the Spotify app, including play controls and grouping of rooms. This free software update will be available in October as part of the Sonos public beta program.
“We’re excited to partner with Sonos and enhance the at home listening experience,” said Gustav Söderström, chief product officer at Spotify. “Spotify listeners can now seamlessly transition their listening throughout the day from their headphones, to the car, to their computers, to their Sonos system at home with complete control of all their favorite Spotify features directly from the Spotify app.”
Amazon Echo
TechCrunch is also reporting that Sonos is opening its system to the Amazon Echo voice driven assistant. When it rolls out next year, commands will include “Alexa, play me music,” “Alexa, skip,” and “Alexa, what’s playing,” and more
More Music Services
There's no word yet on when other music apps will connect to Sonos. But Pandora CEO Tim Westerberg has promised further Sonos integrations with their app; and in an increasingly competitive market for both wireless speakers and music services, we;'ll like see more matchups.
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