Sonos Radio launches today, as a streaming music service that is only available on Sonos speakers.
Sonos Radio has over 60,000 ad-support radio stations. Which include stations from iHeartRadio, TuneIn and more. These include local radio stations, which were already free in iHeartRadio too.
Also, Sonos is launching Sound System, which is an ad-free Sonos-hosted station that’s available within Sonos Radio. This is all part of Sonos’ entry into the music streaming service, and gives the company another edge over its competitors. Since Sonos Radio is only available on Sonos products.
With Sonos Radio, you can stream stations from all around the world
Sonos Radio is going to make it pretty easy to explore different radio stations around the world, while also integrating different internet radio services all into the same streaming service. Right now, Sonos Radio has TuneIn and iHeartRadio, but it promises to have more coming in the future.
Sonos users will be able to listen to music, sports, news and much more from local stations based on zip code and also have the ability to access any station globally.
This means that users could start the day listening to their local NPR station, and then switch to a radio station in Houston, San Francisco, Detroit, or New York City.
And with more of us working from home right now, this means that you’re going to have even more content that you can listen to while you’re working. Instead of just the same old playlists from Spotify, Google Play Music, Amazon Music Unlimited or another streaming service.
You can start listening to Sonos Radio today!
Sonos Radio is ready for listening, starting today. All you need to do is update the Sonos app, which is being rolled out on Android and iOS right now.
Global radio stations are going to be available for all Sonos customers, worldwide. However, Sonos’ original programming will be limited to the United States, Canada, United Kingdom, Ireland and Australia beginning today. Sonos says that more countries will follow in the future. But there has been no date specified just yet.
Now you will need to get a Sonos speaker to be able to use this service. And the good news is that a number of Sonos speakers are on sale right now, for $50 off, like the Sonos One SL. Which is the cheapest not-used Sonos speaker you can buy right now, at $129. And if you don’t already have a Sonos speaker, what are you waiting on? These are incredibly sounding speakers and the multi-room audio is unmatched.