http://www.newmanva.com/feeder/?FeederAction=clicked&feed=Articles+%28RSS2%29&seed=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.newmanva.com%2Fblog%2F2006%2F04%2F20%2Fsonos-mp3-digital-music%2F&seed_title=Why+Sonos+did+it+right%26%238230%3B a blog about technology, venture captial, and wise start-up strategy Fri, 10 Sep 2010 01:20:25 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 http://www.newmanva.com/feeder/?FeederAction=clicked&feed=Articles+%28RSS2%29&seed=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.newmanva.com%2Fblog%2F2006%2F04%2F20%2Fsonos-mp3-digital-music%2F&seed_title=Why+Sonos+did+it+right%26%238230%3B#comment-53 Sonos updates to version 2.0 and integrates Rhapsody service | The NVA Blog Sun, 24 Sep 2006 22:03:55 +0000 http://www.newmanva.com/blog/?p=5#comment-53 [...] I’ve had Sonos in the house for over a year now, and blogged about why were impressed here. They released version 2.0 of the software recently, and after playing with it for about two weeks it definitely gets the thumbs up. The biggest new feature is that Rhapsody is now integrated into the controller so that you can browse and play everything in the Rhapsody library as if it was in your own library. The integration is quite nice and performs well. They give you a free 30 day trial, and the service is $10 a month. It’s worth it for many reasons, but the easiest justification is that it will save you money in the long run. (cost of the Sonos system notwithstanding). How many times have you bought an album because you liked 1-2 songs but ended up not being all that impressed with the entire album? How many times have you bought some music, loved it for 3 weeks and haven’t listened to it again since? Rhapsody has a pretty big library at 2+ million songs (iTunes is 3.5m) so the likelihood of them having anything new from a major label is good. You can listen to tons of new music, decide what you like enough to pay for, and purchase media you want the CD or digital files for your iPod, car, etc. [...] [...] I’ve had Sonos in the house for over a year now, and blogged about why were impressed here. They released version 2.0 of the software recently, and after playing with it for about two weeks it definitely gets the thumbs up. The biggest new feature is that Rhapsody is now integrated into the controller so that you can browse and play everything in the Rhapsody library as if it was in your own library. The integration is quite nice and performs well. They give you a free 30 day trial, and the service is $10 a month. It’s worth it for many reasons, but the easiest justification is that it will save you money in the long run. (cost of the Sonos system notwithstanding). How many times have you bought an album because you liked 1-2 songs but ended up not being all that impressed with the entire album? How many times have you bought some music, loved it for 3 weeks and haven’t listened to it again since? Rhapsody has a pretty big library at 2+ million songs (iTunes is 3.5m) so the likelihood of them having anything new from a major label is good. You can listen to tons of new music, decide what you like enough to pay for, and purchase media you want the CD or digital files for your iPod, car, etc. [...]

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