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Comments on: Sonos adds free iPhone app, Last.fm, expanded Internet radio options

Last.fm, RadioTime, and a free iPhone app are the latest additions to the Sonos multi-room digital music streamer.

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by Eauboy October 28, 2008 8:30 AM PDT
This is just the sort of thing I'd love for my PS3 to do. Right now I stream my music collection from my NAS to my PS3. Great solution for music you already own. I could get NetFlix streaming, easy Internet radio and the ability to control them with an iPhone app, I might never leave the house.

Except to buy an iPhone.
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by thisislovell October 28, 2008 12:07 PM PDT
Grab yourself a PSP (which should be cheaper than an iPhone), and you'll have your very own PS3 controller. Add the Flash 9 support added to the browser recently, and you may just have what you're looking for.
by jbinmpls October 28, 2008 11:20 AM PDT
The iPhone App Store had two other Sonos controller apps for $15 which received positive reviews. I wonder if this pushed Sonos to move their app out there, partially cannibalizing their controller market.

As an owner of both products - it's going to be awesome to suddenly have what was a huge remote with a beautiful screen and great interface now shrunk down into a pocket sized device with a beautiful screen and excellent interface! For free. :)
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by Jerry A October 29, 2008 5:32 AM PDT
If you have a touch or iphone and you are just interested in streaming your itunes library, try picking up an airport express. Current gen (wireless N) is 99, but I was able to pick up a new previous gen airport express (same features except it is wireless G) for 69. Download the free apple remote app for iphone or touch, and your good to go - this enables you to control itunes from anywhere in your network with the iphone or touch with the audio streaming wirelessly from your computer to the airport express which would be patched into your awesome sounding stereo. This works on Mac or PC. If your a stickler for audio quality, the airport express has an optical out allowing your higher end converter to handle the DAC task (the same jack on the airport can pass stereo analog signals as well). If you encode your tunes from cd to apple lossless, you pretty much have yourselve a nice convenient solution for a high end digital music server. Cons are that you won't get internet radio features like last fm or pandora.
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by PatPend November 3, 2008 5:41 AM PST
God Bless Sonos, this system just gets better and better. The underlying execution is solid. The iPhone app is sweet. Pandora and Last.FM adds real value. If /when they offer a comparable video system they will slay everyone else.
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by coolio107 December 19, 2008 6:43 AM PST
Are you aware that there is now also a native iPhone application version of iPeng?
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