Sonos was way ahead of the curve (as in a decade) in the march to connect the speakers in your living room to “the cloud,” which it has done for years with an expanding line of home-networked speakers that connect to the internet and local machines to stream music throughout the home. But even as Apple’s…
Music apps are for everybody to touch. Art installations are usually for nobody to touch, but not this time. “Center of Attention” (video below), on display last week in Los Angeles, presents a collection of cables hanging from a ceiling, which visitors could touch, twist, and connect to trigger all sorts of fascinating sounds. They…
Yes, you can stream any iOS app – and even certain Android apps – to Apple AirPlay speakers wirelessly, in order to fill your domicile with the sweet sound of digital music from a variety of services. However, a few drawbacks to that scenario might drive you into the arms of Sonos’ competing speaker systems anyway: If…
Sonos was way ahead of the game when it comes to piping digital around the home. It took years for Apple to catch up, which it might have, by implementing AirPlay across its operating systems, iOS devices, AirPort Express, and AppleTV. Before that happened, I used to call Sonos the “iPod Home” that Apple should…
Spotify isn’t the only company with the bright idea to release an API to make it easier for app developers to build stuff that works with its products — which, in Sonos’ case, consist of a line of wireless speakers and modules for the home that let otherwise average people pipe music throughout their homes…
Since 2002 — the year after the first iPod was unveiled — Sonos has built a business around making what I used to call “the ‘iPod Home’ that Apple never made.” Sonos’s digital audio devices for the home have taken many forms over the years, but they all create a mesh network in the home…
You can now play over 15 million Spotify songs on your computer for free in this country — partially because Spotify counts on the fact that if you get addicted to listening to music and building playlists on the service, you’ll want to play those playlists and listen to that music on other devices: your…
Sonos has always been way ahead of the curve when it comes to playing digital audio in the home. Early on, I likened it to “iPod Home” — the home MP3 player that Apple was too busy to make. However, Steve Jobs has, at long last, phoned home. Apple’s AirPlay technology can now wirelessly play…
When Sonos first unveiled its digital music systems for the home, this reporter called it the “iPod Home” that Apple had yet to conceive. Sonos could play networked music libraries over relatively high-quality speakers; finally, someone had taken digital home audio beyond the concept of plugging a laptop or MP3 player into a home stereo….
LAS VEGAS, NEVADA – Rdio, the unlimited music subscription service from the founders of Kazaa and Skype built as a Twitter-like music service with strong social features, announced its first hardware partner at the Consumer Electronics Show on Wednesday evening: the Sonos Music System, a multi-room digital music sound system that already supports two of…
