uh oh - Sonos Play:1 - I can hear my wallet weeping...
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pete said:
Mine is working fine - my .co.uk Amazon Prime account works without an issue to log into Amazon.com. It also works for the vanilla Amazon.com website, so maybe it's something more fundamental with your account?
Pete
Mine logs in on the .com account but doesn't recognise I have a prime accountPete
Solved.
Goto http://amazonmusic.com
Log in (It made me do it twice for some reason).
You'll end up in part of amazon where you can view music.
Go through the sonos thing again and it'll work.
Must have needed to initialise something on my account?
Goto http://amazonmusic.com
Log in (It made me do it twice for some reason).
You'll end up in part of amazon where you can view music.
Go through the sonos thing again and it'll work.
Must have needed to initialise something on my account?
I'm looking at expanding our Sonos setup with a two more Play 1s and I seem to remember you could get a 'multi-room bundle' for £299. However, I can't find any evidence of it online. Does anyone know of any retailers still doing this and if not the best place to buy two new shiny Play 1s?
grenpayne said:
I'm looking at expanding our Sonos setup with a two more Play 1s and I seem to remember you could get a 'multi-room bundle' for £299. However, I can't find any evidence of it online. Does anyone know of any retailers still doing this and if not the best place to buy two new shiny Play 1s?
It was a special offer IIRC.
768 said:
Can you really not stream the free Spotify to a Sonos speaker without a premium Spotify subscription?
It lets me stream to a Chromecast.
It's a premium feature that Spotify charge money for. I suspect too that Sonos either can't or won't support inserting ads that the free version does in the desktop and mobile versions.It lets me stream to a Chromecast.
I don't think Chromecast Audio (which works similar to Sonos, the device connects directly to the source rather than coming via your phone/computer) does it with Spotify Free either.
I've just bought into the Sonos system...I bought a Playbar for my TV in the Family room and I've got a Sub and two Play:1's arriving later this week.
The Playbar is being mounted on the wall beneath my TV and the Play:1's on the wall high up in each corner - is this best mounting solution or is there a specific wall-mount height that they perform best at?
For the Dining/Living room I'm getting two Play:5's. Now would they sound best wall-mounted or on a Flexson stand d'ya think?
The Playbar is being mounted on the wall beneath my TV and the Play:1's on the wall high up in each corner - is this best mounting solution or is there a specific wall-mount height that they perform best at?
For the Dining/Living room I'm getting two Play:5's. Now would they sound best wall-mounted or on a Flexson stand d'ya think?
Coolbanana said:
I've just bought into the Sonos system...I bought a Playbar for my TV in the Family room and I've got a Sub and two Play:1's arriving later this week.
The Playbar is being mounted on the wall beneath my TV and the Play:1's on the wall high up in each corner - is this best mounting solution or is there a specific wall-mount height that they perform best at?
For the Dining/Living room I'm getting two Play:5's. Now would they sound best wall-mounted or on a Flexson stand d'ya think?
How are you getting around the issue that the playbar won't accept DTS 5.1 audio?The Playbar is being mounted on the wall beneath my TV and the Play:1's on the wall high up in each corner - is this best mounting solution or is there a specific wall-mount height that they perform best at?
For the Dining/Living room I'm getting two Play:5's. Now would they sound best wall-mounted or on a Flexson stand d'ya think?
smn159 said:
How are you getting around the issue that the playbar won't accept DTS 5.1 audio?
I'm not. Not bothered about DTS 5.1. I have the Playbar sitting on a box now below the TV waiting for the wall bracket to arrive (UPS are struggling to find my street here in the Algarve, Portugal for some bizarre reason) and it sounds fine. I'm sure Movies will sound even better when the Play 1's and Sub arrive.
In the UK I have an Onkyo, Tannoy and REL set up with DTS etc but think I'll relegate that to the Basement garage when I move here permanently next June.
Coolbanana said:
smn159 said:
How are you getting around the issue that the playbar won't accept DTS 5.1 audio?
I'm not. Not bothered about DTS 5.1. I have the Playbar sitting on a box now below the TV waiting for the wall bracket to arrive (UPS are struggling to find my street here in the Algarve, Portugal for some bizarre reason) and it sounds fine. I'm sure Movies will sound even better when the Play 1's and Sub arrive.
In the UK I have an Onkyo, Tannoy and REL set up with DTS etc but think I'll relegate that to the Basement garage when I move here permanently next June.
I got around this by buying one of these
https://www.amazon.co.uk/ViewHD-Prosumer-Extractio...
and connecting all of the inputs to it before feeding the audio to the Soundbar. All works well and surround sound has been restored.
Still a bit piss poor that Sonos don't seem to have a solution, given the price point though...
smn159 said:
I guess that it depends on how you watch TV / what kit you have. I originally connected the Soundbar using the optical audio out from the TV, with the Virgin box, Apple TV and the DVD player hooked to the TV via HDMI. I found that the surround sound from the VM box was OK, but that DVDs would only play in stereo due to the DTS issue. Setting the DVD player to 5:1 just resulted in silence and I begrudged having a £1500 surround sound system which would only work in stereo when I fancied watching a DVD (or Amazon Prime as the app for that is on the DVD player)
I got around this by buying one of these
https://www.amazon.co.uk/ViewHD-Prosumer-Extractio...
and connecting all of the inputs to it before feeding the audio to the Soundbar. All works well and surround sound has been restored.
Still a bit piss poor that Sonos don't seem to have a solution, given the price point though...
Ah right. Cheers, I'll look into that. For TV at the moment I've decided I don't want cable here in Portugal, nor Satellite. I'll add my PS4 but nothing else. I stream Movies and Series from Netflix and Amazon Prime. I got around this by buying one of these
https://www.amazon.co.uk/ViewHD-Prosumer-Extractio...
and connecting all of the inputs to it before feeding the audio to the Soundbar. All works well and surround sound has been restored.
Still a bit piss poor that Sonos don't seem to have a solution, given the price point though...
I haven't purchased a DVD/Blu-ray in over a year (used to be 2-3 a month) and we don't watch terrestrial TV in the UK at all. So we decided to ditch the landline, broadband and satellite packages here for broadband only.
For Sport, I only watch the 6 Nations, World Cup Football and Rugby World Champs, Wimbledon and the Tour de France - oh, and the Olympics. I can get those as and when I want them from NOW TV or iPlayer etc via streaming from my laptop.
For music, I'm going with a pair of Sonos 5's and streaming Spotify and TuneIn.
So nothing great in terms of true hi-fi or surround sound. But functional for what we want.
But...all that said, I am toying with having a separate system for higher quality movie viewing. Here in Portugal, some homes have huge basements that double as large garages. Some people have converted space for additional bedrooms etc but I'm thinking cinema room. I can park 4 cars, have a very large workshop, loads of storage and still have enough space. And I'll only have 2 cars (hugely expensive here so downgrading big time probably and may just get 1).
Edited by Coolbanana on Wednesday 28th December 10:03
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