Sonos - end of Amazon Music digital locker
Discussion
Amazon Music mentioned in passing today that they are terminating my Cloud service when my subscription expires at the end of October.
I bought the subscription when I bought my Sonos equipment - perhaps 5-years ago.
As I live between UK, France and Spain, it has been the perfect way for me to listen to my CD collection, plus recent stuff that I have bought from Amazon. If I am in the car I can listen via my Android phone, if I am in a hotel, or outside, I can also listen using my iPad and Bose speaker.
I have looked at the Sonos music service possibilities and there is something called Murfie, which includes a streaming service, which I do not want. It may be someone else’s future - but not mine.
Please can anyone suggest a method for me to keep the flexibility that I have and that will work with Sonos, my phone and iPad. I don’t want a home-Cloud, unattended while I am out of the country.
I have written to Amazon, but their reply offered me “the bird” rather than anything tangible.
I bought the subscription when I bought my Sonos equipment - perhaps 5-years ago.
As I live between UK, France and Spain, it has been the perfect way for me to listen to my CD collection, plus recent stuff that I have bought from Amazon. If I am in the car I can listen via my Android phone, if I am in a hotel, or outside, I can also listen using my iPad and Bose speaker.
I have looked at the Sonos music service possibilities and there is something called Murfie, which includes a streaming service, which I do not want. It may be someone else’s future - but not mine.
Please can anyone suggest a method for me to keep the flexibility that I have and that will work with Sonos, my phone and iPad. I don’t want a home-Cloud, unattended while I am out of the country.
I have written to Amazon, but their reply offered me “the bird” rather than anything tangible.
Carry your cloud with you: https://www.amazon.co.uk/WD-TB-Cloud-Personal-Stor...
Small, storage up to at least 4TB
SONOS will read the music library straight off the device and make it available.
It does need to be cabled to your router. I don't know if wireless NASs are available.
Small, storage up to at least 4TB
SONOS will read the music library straight off the device and make it available.
It does need to be cabled to your router. I don't know if wireless NASs are available.
It is a digital locker service that I want. Perhaps buying space on DropBox is sufficient, but I can’t see how to get my Sonos to read/play/playlist it.
A 4Tb Box does not cut it, in the car, or garden. It’s bigger than either my phone, or Bose speaker.
I think Google Play Music may be what I need, but I am basically paying for a streaming service that I don’t want.
A 4Tb Box does not cut it, in the car, or garden. It’s bigger than either my phone, or Bose speaker.
I think Google Play Music may be what I need, but I am basically paying for a streaming service that I don’t want.
The_Jackal said:
If you have your own music the free Google Play Music is great to upload to. The subscription is only if you want to stream their commercial music like Spotify. You will have to check if Sonos can access it though.
Is it still limited to MP3 and 50k tracks? It also seems daft that it requires the actual uploading of the tracks, rather than using track-matching locally. It wouldn't be hard to 'fingerprint' the track on the PC and then link the cloud version they probably already have stored in their database. Any music that's not in the database could then be uploaded - it would save an enormous amount of upload, especially when all my songs are in FLAC format!
lepill said:
Plex Cloud ?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z78WBvaPGe4
This, it’s what we use and it does work well once all setuphttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z78WBvaPGe4
The_Jackal said:
If you have your own music the free Google Play Music is great to upload to. The subscription is only if you want to stream their commercial music like Spotify. You will have to check if Sonos can access it though.
Google are messing around with Google Play Music too: https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2018/05/youtube-mu...It's unclear what exactly is happening but I'd be reluctant about going to all the trouble of uploading all my music if the bit of the service that I need might vanish.
NDA said:
Are Amazon Music ending this service?? I feckin hope not.... I have a huge library uploaded.
That's correct, the service is ending because they see their future with the Alexis speaker.But now it looks like Google are headed down the same route.
I am now going to raise the issue with Sonos. They obviously need to expand into software, or they will be out of business.
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