Apple Music on Sonos Now Available in Beta, Final Version Launches Early 2016

I don't see the use of Apple Music in a World where Spotify and Deezer is so much easier to live with.
I have tried for three months to understand it, but failed to get offline playlists etc to work as nice as it does on Spotify.

Easy: because no service offers seamless integration between my owned music library and the streaming cloud.

Example: I bought Adele's "25" last week. Ripped, imported to Apple Music. Now I can listen to it anywhere, anytime, on any device. And it shows up just like if it was added from Apple's music cloud. Same with The Beatles or any other artist that isn't on AM.

That's why I use Apple Music and not Spotify. Spotify is for the folks who base their listening off playlists, and little else.

I'd really love to buy into the Sonos system, but until their speakers work directly with third-party apps (like Music on iOS, or Netflix), it's a no go for me.

Working a treat here, setup very straightforward, although I wish Sonos would update their app, it's pretty clunky. Feels like it's from 1997.

It's very counter-intuitive. I just wish they had integrated the Apple Music into the On This Phone section rather than a separate stream. Suppose I'll get used to it, but it's a little confusing!

It would be more intuitive if Apple would split the :apple: Music service into its own iOS app. There is just too much going on in the current iOS Music app.

It would be more intuitive if Apple would split the :apple: Music service into its own iOS app. There is just too much going on in the current iOS Music app.

Totally disagree! The beauty of Apple Music is that it is all together. Owned content alongside streamed, rather than split out.

I don't see the use of Apple Music in a World where Spotify and Deezer is so much easier to live with.
I have tried for three months to understand it, but failed to get offline playlists etc to work as nice as it does on Spotify.

This was pretty much all I was waiting for in order to drop Spotify.
Anyone want to tell me why I should keep Spotify when I can use siri and my apple watch with Apple music?
Plus already Apple has more mainstream artist that Spotify won't be able to sign. i.e. ColdPlay

No.

However, you can sign up for the free three month trial and then turn off auto renew in iTunes.

Thanks mate, that should be a good workaround for now and I can give apple music a shot ;)

Well it doesn't sound good, but I feel it has nothing to do with bitrate as it still sounds bad playing lossless from our NAS library.

We just received the new Play:5 at the end of last week and set it up in anticipation of being able to use Apple Music. I was actually rather shocked at how poor it sounds, it isn't as good as our ancient Apple Hi-Fi, and it is not even in the same league as the B&W MM-1 we use on our desktop.

The Sonos has a sort of boomy, muddy heavily DSP'ed sound that I would liken to listening to what your neighbors are playing by pressing your ear to the wall. Passages from well known songs are often unrecognizable.

Anyways quite a disappointment. We are now thinking about something like the B&W A7 or A5.

So playlists are not working this beta?

The My Music area just says 'your library is unavailable' on my system.

I have the same problem. My music library is not available.....

A few people on the Sonos support page ('https://en.community.sonos.com/announcements-228985/apple-music-now-available-beta-on-sonos-6733728/') are reporting it takes about 25 mins to show up.