You could always get a Sonos Port and hook it up to your Denon receiver since this would then also allow you to bring the speakers connected to your receiver into the Sonos system, group them and so on. Sonos also has it's own voice assistant and it can live alongside Alexa on any voice enabled Sonos speaker like the Roam, Move, One or any of the soundbars. It works great for changing volume and it's fantastic if you have multiple Sonos speakers and you want to group them. You never have to open the app any more, I for example often want our living room Arc and surround system grouped with a set of Sonos One speakers in the kitchen because then my wife can watch a movie and I can listen in the kitchen if I am still doing something. I simply go in the kitchen and say "Hey Sonos, group cooking" This is because I made a group with living room and kitchen and named it cooking, I could also say "Hey Sonos, group living room and kitchen Sonos, basically you say you want to group whatever your speaker names are and it's actually amazing how fast it happens, Sonos voice assistant barely says "Grouping cooking" when the audio already starts playing. In the same way if I am done and join my wife in the living room I just say "Hey Sonos, ungroup cooking" as I am walking out of the kitchen and it's done. Similarly if I have Sonos playing in say 3 rooms, bedroom, kitchen and living room, I can ask the Sonos assistant to change the volume which changes it for the entire group or I can ask it to change the volume in the living room or mute the bedroom etc. For actual system control it works incredibly well. Before I bought my first Sonos surround sound setup, a Playbar, set of Play 1 speakers for rear surrounds and a Sonos Sub I had a high-end Sony Elite series 7.1 surround sound receiver and while this was before the days when just about everything was connected and had an app, I had what back then was a Sonos Connect hooked up to it via a digital optical connection. In this way Sonos was just another input source and if I wanted to listen to music in the living room I selected the optical digital input and after that I didn't need to do anything any more with my receiver since my music selection and all that was then done via the Sonos app. And since the Connect and now the new Port also has analogue inputs, I was able to connect my Sony receiver's analogue outputs in turn back into the Connect and this way any other source connected to my Sony receiver like CD player, Blu-Ray, satellite TV receiver could be played on my Sonos system throughout the house. If you are building a Sonos system and have an existing stereo system getting a Port is almost inevitable and it also happens to be one of the less expensive Sonos items.
From: viphone@googlegroups.com <viphone@googlegroups.com> On Behalf Of Christopher Chaltain Sent: Tuesday, December 27, 2022 9:30 PM To: viphone@googlegroups.com Subject: RE: Accessibility of music service aps Good question. Mostly because it’s not supported by my Denon receiver, which does support Airplay though. It does check all of the other boxes, and I have a three month free subscription, so I definitely need to check it out. -- Christopher (AKA CJ) =>÷ Chaltain at Outlook, USA From: viphone@googlegroups.com <viphone@googlegroups.com> On Behalf Of Sieghard Weitzel Sent: Tuesday, December 27, 2022 11:17 PM To: viphone@googlegroups.com Subject: RE: Accessibility of music service aps Why are you not considering Apple Music? I don't know about your Denon receiver, but it's certainly supported by Sonos and you can select Apple Music as your preferred music service in the Alexa app so if you tell Alexa on your Sonos Roam to play whatever music it will do so playing from Apple Music. From: viphone@googlegroups.com<mailto:viphone@googlegroups.com> <viphone@googlegroups.com<mailto:viphone@googlegroups.com>> On Behalf Of Christopher Chaltain Sent: Tuesday, December 27, 2022 3:05 PM To: viphone@googlegroups.com<mailto:viphone@googlegroups.com> Subject: Accessibility of music service aps I’m shopping around for a new music service. It looks like right now I’m deciding between Spotify, Deezer and Amazon Music. I’ll play around with each as much as I can, but I’m wondering if anyone wants to share their opinions on the accessibility of the apps for these services. Right now I’m using YouTube Music, which I like, but I’m looking for something that will be supported on more of the platforms I’m starting to use. I just bought a Sonos Roam, and I have a Denon receiver running HEOS. I also have smart speakers right now from Amazon, Google and Apple. 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