Sonos

They are now friends! Sonos and Sirius just announced that for Sirius’ premium account holders you can have internet radio delivered through your Sonos system. If you are not a Sirius premium account holder, it is only $2.99 a month with your Sirius account. And, if you are not a Sonos owner, or a Sirius subscriber … you are missing out on truly enjoying the music you love.

I applaud Sonos for staying on top of software updates that make their machine adapt with the times. The execution of partnerships that can deliver content are making this music player a must have for any home. The Sirius folks are also innovative with making sure those customers who already overlap (Sonos owners, and Sirius subscribers), bring their systems together. Read more

August 15, 2007 – SIRIUS Satellite Radio and Sonos®, Inc., the leading developer of wireless multi-room music systems for the digital home, today announced the release of Sonos System Software v 2.3 that will bring “The Best Radio on the Internet” from SIRIUS to the digital home via the award-winning Sonos Digital Music System. The companies have collaborated to provide SIRIUS subscribers with an exciting new way to wirelessly stream SIRIUS all over the house and control it all from the palm of their hand.

The Sonos Digital Music System provides SIRIUS subscribers with a convenient way to enjoy their favorite SIRIUS music, talk, and sports programming in every room. By simply connecting Sonos to a broadband Internet connection, SIRIUS subscribers can instantly access more than 80 SIRIUS channels, including 100% commercial-free music channels. Plus, Sonos connects users with SIRIUS’ exclusive and compelling talk channels including Howard Stern, Martha Stewart Living Radio, Cosmo Radio, MAXIM Radio, Playboy Radio, SIRIUS Football Radio, four different comedy channels, and more. Read more

May 23, 2007 – Sonos, Inc., the leading developer of wireless multi-room music systems for the digital home, today announced a new release of Sonos System Software v 2.2 that will bring Pandora* to the award-winning Sonos Digital Music System. Pandora, the developer of the ground-breaking personalized radio service, and Sonos have collaborated to provide music lovers with an exciting new way to discover music from the palm of their hand, and enjoy that music all over the house. Today’s addition of Pandora expands Sonos’ unsurpassed home audio experience—providing access to more music services than any other whole-home digital music system on the market. The free software upgrade is available to all registered Sonos customers via Sonos’ wireless handheld Controller.

Pandora’s innovative approach to radio combined with Sonos’ industry-leading digital music system signals a new era for radio enjoyment in the home. With Pandora and the wireless Sonos Controller in hand, users can create and play up to 100 radio stations based on their favorite songs or artists. Using Pandora’s Music Genome Project®, Pandora’s highly-trained musicians analyze songs, one at a time, using close to 400 musical traits including melody, harmony, instrumentation, rhythm, vocals, lyrics, and more to automatically build a station with songs that share interesting musical similarities. Users can take hold of the Controller and rate the music they hear to further refine the station’s playlist on the fly. Read more

January 2007 – Sonos, Inc., the leading developer of wireless multi-room music systems for the digital home, just released Sonos System Software 2.1, a software update to its award-winning digital music system. The one-button software upgrade allows Sonos customers to play Windows Media Digital Rights Management-protected songs— anywhere in the home—using Windows Media Player 11 on Windows XP or Windows Vista. As a direct result of close technical collaboration with the Microsoft Windows team, Sonos 2.1 enables music lovers worldwide to enjoy music from a broad range of music download services, including AOL® Music Now, MTV Networks’ URGE, Napster™, Wal-Mart®, Yahoo! Music™ Unlimited, and the Zune Marketplace. Read more

Sept. 14 /PRNewswire/ -- Sonos, Inc., the leading developer of wireless multi-room music systems for the digital home, today released Sonos System Software 2.0, a revolutionary software update to its award-winning digital music system. As a direct result of close technical collaboration with RealNetworks using Rhapsody Web Services, Sonos 2.0 enables music lovers to connect directly to millions of songs and thousands of radio stations without ever installing an application or turning on a computer. By eliminating the time-consuming hassles of downloading or ripping a personal music library, this key innovation opens the world of multi-room digital music to anyone with a broadband connection. The one-button software update includes plug-and-play support for RealNetworks' Rhapsody online music service, alarm functionality, improved multi-national Internet radio, additional language support, and other feature enhancements. Read more

January 2006 – Sonos just introduced a new ZonePlayer to complement the Sonos Digital Music System suite of products. The Sonos ZonePlayer ZP80 allows music lovers to play all their digital music, all over their house, on all of their favorite audio equipment – a home theater system, powered speakers, a premium table top radio such as a Bose Wave Radio, and more.

March 21 /PRNewswire/ -- Sonos, Inc. today announced the immediate availability of a compact, high-performance bookshelf speaker. The company is now offering the Sonos Loudspeaker SP100 as an optional purchase with the award-winning Sonos Digital Music System. The sleek and contemporary speaker is engineered to deliver great sound in a compact form factor, all while providing digital music lovers with a complete home solution.

January 27, 2005 - Sonos, Inc. today announced that the award-winning Sonos Digital Music System has begun shipping to pre-order customers in the United States. The Sonos Digital Music System is the first and only multi-zone digital music system with a wireless, full-color LCD screen controller that lets consumers play all their digital music, all over their home, and control it all from the palm of their hand. The company expects that all pre-orders will be filled within 10 days.

June 2004 – Digital music fans can now listen to rock in the garden, punk in the playroom and fusion in the bedroom, with the launch of the Sonos Digital Music System, which is previewing this week at the “D2: All Things Digital” conference in Carlsbad, Calif. The Sonos offering is the first and only multi-zone digital music system with a wireless, full-color LCD screen controller that lets consumers play all their digital music, all over their home, while controlling it all from the palm of their hand.