Sonos Announce New Spotify and Ipad App

Spotify and Sonos bring music to every room in your house.

What is Spotify?
Spotify is a popular music streaming service that was launched in 2008. It currently has over 8 million passionate users of which more than 250,000 are paid subscribers. It is currently available in the following 7 countries in Europe; UK, France, Spain, Sweden, Norway, Finland and The Netherlands. Search for any artist, album or track from Spotify's eight-million song library.

Sonos and Spotify
The free Sonos Software 3.3 is scheduled for end of September 2010, supporting Spotify on Sonos. In order to play Spotify all over your house you need a Spotify Premium subscription. Simply plug in a ZonePlayer wherever you want Spotify - in the living room, bedroom or both. Experience superior, room-filling sound with the high-performance S5 and Spotify Premium's high-quality 320 kbps streams - comparable to CD quality. Browse and play all your playlists - starred, collaborative, imported music and more.

Control Spotify from your iPhone, iPod touch or iPad with the free Sonos Controller apps - iPad app available end of September 2010.
"It's great that people will be able to listen to Spotify whenever they want, wherever they want in their home," said Daniel Ek, Founder and CEO Spotify. "We're excited to partner with Sonos to deliver the unique Spotify experience in the home, with the same quality and ease of use that our users already love."
"Spotify on Sonos has been the number one request from our European customers and we're thrilled to deliver it," said John MacFarlane, Founder and CEO Sonos, Inc. "Our mission at Sonos is to play all the music on the planet, all over the house. By partnering with a leading music streaming service like Spotify, we can now offer more of our customers the ultimate jukebox experience at home."

What it will cost your customers
Spotify offers three ways to 'play music on demand'.

Spotify Open - It's free: 20 hours a month of streaming music.
Spotify Unlimited - £4.99 per month: No advertisements. Unlimited streaming of music.
Spotify Premium - £9.99 per month: This is the service that allows Sonos & Spotify to work all over your house. Spotify on your mobile. Offline mode for playlists. No advertisements. Unlimited streaming of music.


**Press Coverage on Spotify & Sonos:
Engadget (EU)
“At this very moment, in this very time, upstart media darlings Spotify and Sonos have announced plans to wed... in Europe”

Wired (UK)
“I've been lucky enough to get my hands on a beta version of the new Sonos firmware which includes Spotify, and it's fantastic. Both companies put an enormous amount of effort into making sure that their user experience is perfect, and the resulting combination of the two is a joy to use. It's trivial to search for artists, albums and tracks in Spotify's huge library and being able to stream that music to synced-up speakers all over your house is amazing.”

The Independent (UK)
“Spotify signs deal to bring its service to the living room”

Techradar (UK)
“Sonos has acquired a reputation for quality with its streaming solutions, and it is hoping that the arrival of Spotify to its service will provide a major boost when it arrives at the end of September.”

What HiFi (UK)
“Fancy listening to your choice of over eight million songs, in any room in your house, wirelessly? Of course you do. And from the end of September, you can – provided you’re a Sonos owner and a Spotify Premium subscriber.”

T3 (UK)
“Sonos has teamed up with streaming music marvels Spotify to give users access to the entire music back catalogue.”

Expertreviews (UK)
“Sonos gets Spotify”
Sonos controller for iPad that takes music to a whole new level.
The Sonos iPad Controller is a free app that takes music to a whole new level.

Optimised for the iPad's large screen, everyone in the house can quickly and easily find and play music - in landscape or portrait mode.

The Sonos Controller for iPad is so much fun; all your customers can play DJ.
Sonos expects to submit the Sonos Controller for iPad to Apple mid-August. Pending approval, the app should be publicly available by the end of September.

Sonos Controller for iPad features:
• Landscape and portrait modes - no matter how you turn it, the iPad's large screen makes controlling your music easier than ever.

• Multi-pane view - see your music menu, what's playing in every room, and what's in your queue, complete with vivid album art - all at once.
• Fun and ease for everyone - quickly search for our favourite artists by typing on the virtual keyboard and browse through albums by pointing and flicking. Then simply drag the drop to add to your queue.

Sonos software requirements
• Version 3.2 or higher
• Wireless connectivity*
The iPad connects to your Sonos System through your home Wi-Fi network*
*Internet connection required for access to Internet radio stations, online music services and software updated (DSL, cable modem or LAN-based high speed Internet connection required). Internet functionality may require payment of separate fee to a service provider; local and/or long distance telephone charges may apply. Note: All specifications subject to change without notice.