New Sonos Play 1?
Discussion
I know there are some people 'in the know' on here regarding Sonos.
I want to get a couple of Play Ones in white to act as rear speakers to the soundbar.
BUT I much prefer the styling of the new Sonos ONE though don't want the Alexa bit! They are completely white and match the styling of a couple of the Play 5's I also have
Anyone know if the Original Play One will be restyled anytime soon or will it just be phased out and no choice but to buy the Alexa enabled One?
MM
I want to get a couple of Play Ones in white to act as rear speakers to the soundbar.
BUT I much prefer the styling of the new Sonos ONE though don't want the Alexa bit! They are completely white and match the styling of a couple of the Play 5's I also have
Anyone know if the Original Play One will be restyled anytime soon or will it just be phased out and no choice but to buy the Alexa enabled One?
MM
MountainMutant74 said:
Can you switch the Alexa bit off?
Looks like you can: http://www.sonos.com/support/productguide/en/sonos...
Whilst I gave up on Sonos it's good to see that they do now have Alexa and, more importantly, more function controls (skip track forward/back)
t. My Amazon Dot and Alexa work perfectly with the same commands.14-7 said:
Why not buy the old Play 1's and just get a skin for them?
Spending an extra £100 just because they look better is a bit silly.
Possibly have missed something here but the reason is in the shop I bought it from sonos one was £199 and the sonos one with Alexa was £199 . No brainer . However prices might have changed since I got mine . Possibly I'm missing that an old model of S1 is available for less money . Spending an extra £100 just because they look better is a bit silly.
mycroft said:
Possibly have missed something here but the reason is in the shop I bought it from sonos one was £199 and the sonos one with Alexa was £199 . No brainer . However prices might have changed since I got mine . Possibly I'm missing that an old model of S1 is available for less money .
Play 1 now retails at £149mycroft said:
I bought a Play one a few weeks ago ,you can turn the mic off with button on top . Alexa is ok and I can play music via phone and laptop but Alexa refuses to play radio or music by voice control . Cant work it out ?
Do you have the Sonos Play:1 or the Sonos One? The latter has Alexa built in, the former doesn't and needs an Amazon Dot or similar. It sounds like you have the Sonos One.Have you inked it to a music streaming service such as Spotify? You will need a paid for account such as Spotify Premium, not their free app.
Edited by LeadFarmer on Tuesday 19th December 18:39
talkssense said:
mycroft said:
Possibly have missed something here but the reason is in the shop I bought it from sonos one was £199 and the sonos one with Alexa was £199 . No brainer . However prices might have changed since I got mine . Possibly I'm missing that an old model of S1 is available for less money .
Play 1 now retails at £149I’ve got a sonos one. Very responsive although some features of Alexa don’t work as yet. Drop in , audible, bbc skill etc. Doesn’t matter for me as it’s for music in my case and tunein works fine although I’m aware others have had probs.. I wanted to minimise components and I preferred the updated design and controls of the one. I may also want to use other voice services and not just the amazon offering. Sound is great for the price/size. Very happy with it.
LeadFarmer said:
Do you have the Sonos Play:1 or the Sonos One? The latter has Alexa built in, the former doesn't and needs an Amazon Dot or similar. It sounds like you have the Sonos One.
Have you inked it to a music streaming service such as Spotify? You will need a paid for account such as Spotify Premium, not their free app.
Yes I have a Sonos one with Alexa built in . I like it , wife not so keen . I think for the kitchen the size and sound are very good . Alexa skills are OK and I am gradually adding more . Its great for weather and roads etc. and we enjoy playing true or false , genuinely had some good laughs with the device . I found a windows app for Sonos despite reading windows was not supported but I cannot find any way of loading the Alexa app on to a windows device . Given Microsoft's market share I find this surprising. So I can play music from my windows laptop my windows phone and my wife's iPhone , but Alexa will not play anything by voice command . I have Amazon Music and have set up Tunein radio stations on Sonos favorites but still nothing plays by voice command . So I can only assume I don't have the Alexa skill set up correctly or the music provider set up or configured correctly or possibly Alexa does not yet have this feature . Any help gratefully received . DHave you inked it to a music streaming service such as Spotify? You will need a paid for account such as Spotify Premium, not their free app.
Edited by LeadFarmer on Tuesday 19th December 18:39
I am thinking about this set up for my new home, had Sonos for years but I'm thinking that portable speakers and the Alexa system could be a good solution for sound, heating and lighting. Would be interested to know if anyone else is doing similar, I don't really want to go ceiling speakers again, sound quality/direction was poor and the Sonos/Alexa looks good on paper.
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