Sonos is a wireless multi-room music system. Their players start at $199 US for a Play 1 speaker. A Play 3 is $299 and a Play 5 is $499. These are all stand-alone speakers which only have to be plugged into an outlet for power and all three of them can be set up as stereo pairs if you buy two of the same. Sonos also has the Connect Amp for I think $599 which is a Sonos player which has 110 Watts of digital Class D amplification and requires traditional bookshelf, tower or built-in speakers connected to the Connect Amp with speakerwire. There is also the Connect which is meant to cbe connected to an existing stereo receiver or amplifier either by analogue composit/RCA cable, digital Optical or digital Coax. Lastly, Sonos makes the Playbar and Sonos Sub. The Playbar is a high-end soundbar with 9 separately driven speakers meant to go underneath your TV and to be connected via optical Toslink to your TV, it is $699) and the Sonos Sub is just that, a wireless Subwover also for $699 which can compliment pretty much any Sonos setup. You can set up a surround system with a Playbar, Sonos Sub and a stereo pair of Play 1 or Play 3 as rear speakers. A Sonos system can be controlled by the Sonos app which is available for iOS (fully accessible), Android (I assume it is accessible), a PC desktop app which is accessible with Jaws and I assume other screenreaders and there is also a Mac app which I understand is not accessible at this point. The system is connected to the internet via your WiFi or you can hardwire one player to your router which sets up a separate wireless Sonos network. All players have two Ethernet ports and can act as a bridge. Sonos supports about 50 music services both paid and free and you can also play your own music library stored on your computer, a network attached hard drive or directly from your iPhone. The Connect, Connect Amp and Play 5 also have analogue line inputs which can be used to hook up an iPhone by cable or any other source that has an RCA or 3.5mm output jack like a CD player, DVD player, tuner etc. Any device connected to any player is available on all players in the house and you can play music on single players/speakers or group any players you have throughout your house into groups of 2, 3 or more or put them into party mode which groups and syncs playback on all existing players you have on a network. I think that about describes it, it you want to read more you can go to www.Sonos.com. Sonos is a fantastic system with a ton of features, quality hardware, great customer service and they have a strong commitment to accessibility at least for the iOS app.
Regards, Sieghard -----Original Message----- From: viphone@googlegroups.com [mailto:viphone@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Trey Bradley Sent: Monday, May 09, 2016 1:27 PM To: viphone@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: Adding Apple Music to Sonos What is Sonos and how much is it? Sent from my iPhone > On May 9, 2016, at 12:18 AM, Sieghard Weitzel <siegh...@live.ca> wrote: > > Hi Jim, > > Go to the music menu in the Sonos app (at the top left of the screen). Once > you double tap on it find "Add Music Services" or you can find "Settings" and > then in Settings is "My Services", once you go there tap on the "Add" button. > If you go directly to Add Music Services it's maybe a bit quicker. > Keep in mind that this is one area where accessibility is not toally 100%, > you can't swipe from service to service, only once you touch a service you > can swipe left and right. You have to drag your finger down the screen to > find Apple Music. The services are in alphabetical order and Apple Music is > near the bottom of the first screen, here are the services I have on the > first page, not sure if this may differ from country to country: > > 22Tracks > DJ curated music discovery service 22Tracks streams brand new music in 22 > genres > > 7Digital > 7Digital is a digital music store offering millions of high quality tracks > and secure storage of your purchases in a cloud based locker. > > AccuRadio > AccuRadio offers 1,000+ free customizable music radio channels, unlimited > skips, incredible variety and less repetition > > Anghami > Anghami - playing millions of Arabic and international songs > > Apple Music > Unlimited access to the world's music and experts to select the right music > for you plus reimagine live radio with Beats 1. > > BandCamp > Discover amazing music and directly support the artists on BandCamp.com then > enjoy your collection from any room in your home with BandCamp for Sonos. > > The six above mentioned services are exactly what is shown in the Sonos app > on my iPhone 6S Plus. If you have a smaller phone maybe it won't show 6 on > one screen, to get to the next set of services do a 3-finger swipe up. If I > do this Voiceover tells me "Page 2 of 8" which means I have 8 pages and I did > check, page 8 which has Spotify on it ends with Tidal as the sixth item, so > in total there are 48 services which are supported by Sonos. In addition > there is a beta area where you usually find a few more which are being tested > and which aren't yet in the main list. When I first tried Tidal last year it > was in beta. > > Once you find a service you want to add, double tap on the name or the > description (it doesn't seem to matter) and on the next screen you'll find an > "Add to Sonos" button, double tap it and you will be asked to enter your > login credentials for the service. I just did this with Spotify which I am > currently not using on Sonos and after I tapped on "Add to Sonos" I had the > following options: > > I'm new to Spotify > I already have an account > Cancel > > The rest is pretty self-explanatory, once you added a service it shows up in > your main music menu underneath Sonos Favourites and Sonos Playlists. Of > course you only do this once, if you add more players whatever you set up is > available on these players. > > Good luck and enjoy your set of Play 3 speakers! > > Regards, > Sieghard > > -----Original Message----- > From: viphone@googlegroups.com [mailto:viphone@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of > Jim > Sent: Sunday, May 8, 2016 8:19 PM > To: viphone <viphone@googlegroups.com> > Subject: Adding Apple Music to Sonos > > Hello. > I have just bought two Sonos play three units, and I am using the software, > but cannot figure out how to add my paid Apple Music subscription service to > the Sonos, so any assistance would be appreciated, and thanks a lot. Sent > from my iPhone > > -- > The following information is important for all members of the V iPhone list. > > If you have any questions or concerns about the running of this list, or if > you feel that a member's post is inappropriate, please contact the owners or > moderators directly rather than posting on the list itself. > > Your V iPhone list moderator is Mark Taylor and your owner is Cara Quinn - > you can reach Cara at caraqu...@caraquinn.com > > The archives for this list can be searched at: > http://www.mail-archive.com/viphone@googlegroups.com/ > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "VIPhone" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To post to this group, send email to viphone@googlegroups.com. > Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/viphone. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > > -- > The following information is important for all members of the V iPhone list. > > If you have any questions or concerns about the running of this list, or if > you feel that a member's post is inappropriate, please contact the owners or > moderators directly rather than posting on the list itself. > > Your V iPhone list moderator is Mark Taylor and your owner is Cara Quinn - > you can reach Cara at caraqu...@caraquinn.com > > The archives for this list can be searched at: > http://www.mail-archive.com/viphone@googlegroups.com/ > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "VIPhone" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To post to this group, send email to viphone@googlegroups.com. > Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/viphone. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- The following information is important for all members of the V iPhone list. If you have any questions or concerns about the running of this list, or if you feel that a member's post is inappropriate, please contact the owners or moderators directly rather than posting on the list itself. Your V iPhone list moderator is Mark Taylor and your owner is Cara Quinn - you can reach Cara at caraqu...@caraquinn.com The archives for this list can be searched at: http://www.mail-archive.com/viphone@googlegroups.com/ --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "VIPhone" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to viphone@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/viphone. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- The following information is important for all members of the V iPhone list. If you have any questions or concerns about the running of this list, or if you feel that a member's post is inappropriate, please contact the owners or moderators directly rather than posting on the list itself. Your V iPhone list moderator is Mark Taylor and your owner is Cara Quinn - you can reach Cara at caraqu...@caraquinn.com The archives for this list can be searched at: http://www.mail-archive.com/viphone@googlegroups.com/ --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "VIPhone" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to viphone@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/viphone. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
