Hi Sieghard,
You are correct, using the iPhone, if you tap on the queue button, there is
a button to turn shuffle on or off.
After reading your reviews of the speakers, and how accessible the software
was on the iPhone, I took the plunge a couple of weeks ago and bought a pair
of Play 1's, a Play 5, a Play Bar and Sub. I love the audio quality, both
from streaming online and directly from my pc, and even using the audio in
on the Play 5, all is controlled from the phone. What a wonderful job was
done on making the software so accessible with voice over, even through the
initial setting up, which is easily done without any sighted help.
Regards.
Jim.
-----Original Message-----
From: Sieghard Weitzel
Sent: Thursday, December 18, 2014 8:01 PM
To: viphone@googlegroups.com
Subject: RE: Sonos speakers
I can't verify this until I get home tonight, but I'm pretty sure that once
you have a bunch of music playing that you can go into your Queue on the
iPhone app and find the Shuffle option there.
-----Original Message-----
From: viphone@googlegroups.com [mailto:viphone@googlegroups.com] On Behalf
Of John Diakogeorgiou
Sent: Thursday, December 18, 2014 11:52 AM
To: viphone@googlegroups.com
Subject: Re: Sonos speakers
The only thing I wanted to add to this is that with the IPhone you can't
shuffle music. That needs to be done with the PC. Some one correct me if I'm
wrong which I hope I am. Otherwise the Sonos IPhone app is quite nice. I
also agree with using 5's rather than 3's. I don't think that the 3's sound
all that great. I don't agree with not having music on my own computer but
as was already stated that can be argued both ways and is a matter of
preference.
On 12/18/14, Don Breda <don.br...@gmail.com> wrote:
Hi Dave.
I will insert my answers between your quoted questions.
On 12/18/2014 12:40 PM, Dave Sheridan wrote:
Hi List
I'm looking for hifi equipment as most of what I have I've been using
for close on 30 years. There were some useful posts a few weeks ago
regarding Sonos speakers from which I have one or two questions which
hopefully you can help me with. Am I right in thinking that the Sonos
Sub along with either the Sonos 1, 3 or 5 would provide very good
sound for listening to music? Secondly,
I would suggest two play 5s and a sub for one room.
Really makes for some nice listening and also will help with
connecting other analog devices to your sonos system, see below.
whilst I have have wifi at home it can be a little variable so would
the Sonos Boost be a worthwhile purchase along with the other products?
The advantage of the boost is that it allows you the freedom to put
the speakers anywhere you want.
IF you don't have it then at leasone of your sonos speakers must
connect via ethernet cable to your router. This may restrict your
ability to plase the speakers where you really want them. In my
opinion its not a bad idea.
The latest version of the sonos firmware howerver allows for wifi
connection to your router without a boost. Since your wifi seems
somewhat iffie I would suggest the boost as a good idea.
Thirdly, although I have a significant amount of my cd collection
on external hard drive, I still have a large collection of cds and
would therefore want to use a cd player. Would this be easily
connected to the speakers? Fourth, I have a large minidisc collection
and good Sony minidisc player, would this easily be connectable to the
speakers?
Having two play 5 speakers will allow you two line in connections to
the system so you could put your cd player on one and your mini disk
player on the other.
Fifth, would control of such a system be better controlled through an
iPhone, PC or MacBook or would any of these do the job?
I suggest most often control of your system will be done quite easily
and successfully through the iPhone and of course thats most desirable.
I have found thogh that some things such as adding services and
feeding differernt streams to diffent rooms are accomplished more
easily through the pc controler but are doable on the iPhone.
I have't had experience with the sonos controler on the mac but as I
recall it was not very useable so would probably be the last resort.
I could be wrong about that though.
Finally, whilst retaining my actual copies of cds would I benefit
from purchasing space in the cloud to store my music and is playing
music from the cloud straightforward?
In my opinion I rarely see a reason anymore to have music stored in my
home at all whether on cd or hard drive.
Subscribing to a good music service such as deezer beats music or
something like that gives you access to a music collection it would
take ten life times and a billion dollars to amass.
No need to waste storage space or physical storage space any more for
music.
Thats just my opinion and I am sure many will argue.
To access the music collection from anywhere at any time is a true
luxury and easily accomplished these days without any investment in
hardware.
If you want to put your cds on the cloud then google play music which
is supported by sonos gives you the best of both worlds.
You have googles vast music collection at your finger tips as well as
having the ability to upload your own collection to the google play
music cloud so you have access to it anywhere.
Hope this ehlps.
Don
I thank you for your time and any responses which will help me spend
my money well.
Dave
Sent from my iPhone
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