Everything you need to know about Sonos speakers, the Sonos app, supported music services, and more from the wireless audio system.
When you think about wireless music, one name comes to mind. Sonos. And unless you’re a diehard analog music fan who shuns anything digital, you’ve likely encountered the Sonos brand. It effectively pioneered and normalized the idea of multi-room, digital wireless audio, and it’s still the gold standard to beat.
Sonos speakers and software Is Sonos a speaker or a software company? It’s both! Sonos considers itself to be a software-driven audio company. This means that while it certainly makes speakers and other audio hardware components, it’s the software that ties it all together that truly sets it apart from other companies.
The Sonos Roam, Move, Beam, and Arc are compatible with Alexa, Google Assistant, and Sonos Voice Control, while the Era 100 and Era 300 only work with Alexa and Sonos Voice control. Sonos says this is due to a change that Google made to its third-party speaker technical requirements prior to the debut of the Era 100 and 300 in March 2023.
Does Sonos make portable speakers? Indeed it does. Sonos offers two sizes: the $399 Move is the company’s larger model. It’s voice-enabled, water- and dust-resistant to the IP56 standard, comes with its own charging station, and has an 11-hour playtime. How much does Sonos cost? The first step into the Sonos ecosystem can be as low as $120 — the cost of its most affordable speaker, the Ikea-branded Symfonisk Bookshelf Speaker. From there, the sky’s the limit.
Today, any legacy Sonos products will still work, and Sonos has committed to keeping them operational for as long as possible, but with the following caveats: Once you’ve plugged your first Sonos product into a power outlet, the app will automatically find it and prompt you through the creation of your initial system, including a connection to your Wi-Fi network.
To play records, CDs, cassette tapes, or even the sound from a TV through a Sonos system’s speakers, you’ll need a Sonos product that can accept an analog or digital “line-in.” The Port, the Amp, the Five, and both the Era 100 and 300 speakers accept analog sources like turntables, cassette decks, or CD players. For digital sources, the Sonos Amp, Beam, and Arc can accept HDMI or optical connections, while the Ray works with just optical.
You can direct each of your speakers to play a separate song, playlist, or station as you wish. Perhaps your spouse wants to listen to 80s New Wave on the back deck, while you want to listen to today’s alternative rock in the living room. Meanwhile, your kids can keep listening to Taylor Swift in their bedrooms.
If you start an Apple Music stream on your kitchen Sonos One, you can quit the Sonos app, or even leave the house with your phone, and the music will continue until the playlist comes to an end, or someone else in your home takes control using their Sonos app. Feel like listening to The Clash? Typing “Clash” in the search window will first bring up any artist with the word Clash in its name across all music sources. A swipe of the finger will next bring up songs with “Clash” in the title, again across all sources, and the same for albums, playlists, and so on.
As of June 2022, Sonos has its own version, called Sonos Voice Control. Once set up, you can say, “Hey, Sonos,” to any voice-enabled Sonos speaker, followed by a command. Say, “Hey, Sonos, play Shirley Bassey radio in the living room and dining room,” and Sonos will make it so. As long as your older Sonos speakers are on the same Sonos system as your newer, Voice Control-microphone-enabled speakers, you’ll be able to control them that way, too.
Connected sound sources Sonos also works with external analog and digital audio equipment if you want. This can include a turntable, CD payer, or tape deck, but also your TV, through an optical or HDMI ARC/eARC connection. You’ll need specific Sonos components to make this work . Unlike almost any other streaming service, both versions of Sonos Radio only work on a Sonos system using the Sonos app – there’s no standalone app for Sonos Radio available to either iOS or Android users.
Both AirPlay 2 and Chromecast use Wi-Fi to create a wireless audio link between a phone or computer and a compatible speaker, soundbar, or home audio system. They both support multiroom playback, via Apple and Google’s respective Home apps. But wait, I thought Sonos speakers also have AirPlay? Yes, all of Sonos’ recent products, starting with the Sonos One in 2017, come equipped with AirPlay 2. And while that might seem like a contradiction, it’s more like an enhancement of the core Sonos system. Using AirPlay 2, you can stream any audio from an iOS, iPadOS, MacOS, or even tvOS product, to a Sonos component directly, without needing to use the Sonos app.
It also enables mesh networking when you’ve set up your Sonos system using SonosNet — each Sonos device can act as a wireless bridge to the next-nearest Sonos device, letting you spread out your speakers and components much farther than you could using a regular Wi-Fi router. Because Wi-Fi doesn’t use the same part of your phone’s audio system as Bluetooth, Wi-Fi music doesn’t have to stop when your phone rings or you want to place a call.
For years, Sonos did not make any products that used Bluetooth, but recently it has changed its tune. In addition to the portable Sonos Move and the smaller Sonos Roam, the new Era 100 and 300 speakers also support Bluetooth. The only caveat is that when these speakers are in Bluetooth mode, you can’t use the Sonos app to control them.
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