Hearts of Space has been a big influence on my life as well as all types of jazz and meditative music. In the 80's I started taking over the turn table at parties. In college, I discovered Emerson, Lake and Palmer, The Grateful Dead, Ambrosia, Yes, Jethro Tull, and many more. I graduated HS in the mid 70's and began my journey into progressive rock. My life totally changed when FM radio arrived in the early 70's. Then my older sisters started listening to The Beatles, Rolling Stones, Simon and Garfunkel and the rock and roll of the 60's. Frank Sinatra, Brazil 66, show tunes, etc. I started listening to my parents music as a boy in the early 60's. From the now playing screen, press the info button to access.Here is a little bit of a look back at my musical journey: (this is what I sent to Sonos)įirst, I am a music lover. Easier to mix it up: With Crossfade, blending your tracks is simple from within the info menu, now more prominently placed alongside the sleep timer.Drag it to whatever point in the song you want to play. Want to hear that verse again? The track progression bar is back in your now playing screen, just below the album art.Then swipe from left to right to show all your music sources. Quickly switch between screens: Using your phone, swipe down from the now playing screen to go back to browse your music.Improvements to the tablet app: New dedicated screens for what’s playing and music discovery on iOS and Android tablets makes toggling between screens more intuitive.A faster way to manage all the rooms in your home: Effortlessly move your music around your home with a more accessible rooms menu, now available by tapping the top of any screen in the Sonos app.If you own a Sonos, you will want to grab this beta update immediately. To download the latest 5.3 beta, head over to Sonos’ site. In this new app, that I have had the pleasure of using for a couple of weeks now, you can jump around from speaker to speaker and music service to music service to adjust groupings or songs or volumes so much more efficiently. The old app made using such a fantastic system and massive pain in the rear. And finally, all of your music services, settings, and other options are available in a slideout navigation menu tucked into the left side of the app, like all other well-designed modern apps.Īs a Sonos user, I can’t stress enough how much of an improvement this app is. Your now playing screen can be dismissed with a swipe down that brings you into your list of music. You can finally quickly switch between Sonos components or rooms with a top dropdown menu that is accessible from anywhere in the app. The app turns what has consistently been one of the worst designed apps I have ever used into one of the best. Now, normally we wouldn’t care enough about the beta release of most apps to generate an entire write-up, but this is a very important update that all Sonos users will surely appreciate. Sonos, the Hi-Fi speaker company whose systems turn your house into a multi-room multimedia mecca, and whose products have also led to recent copycat products from most of the biggest electronics manufacturers in the world (that would be Samsung, LG, and a bunch of speaker knock-off companies), released version 5.3 of its Sonos Controller app in public beta today.
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