Questions about Sonos Digital Music System

atlauren (apparently) - 10:24pm Jan 27, 2006 PST
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http://db.tidbits.com/getbits.acgi?tbart=08399

>Date: Fri, 27 Jan 2006 21:16:25 -0800
>From: Andrew Laurence <andrewmodmini.com>
>Subject: re: Audio Bliss: Sonos Digital Music System
>
>>Andrew,
>>
>>Thanks for interesting article.
>
>Thanks for reading!
>
>>Few questions/comments:
>>- how much power does the system use in standby mode?
>
>8 Watts
>
>>- is there any way to edit meta tags describing individual tracks
>>(like in iTunes)
>
>Sonos doesn't offer this feature. Sonos doesn't replace iTunes (or
>other library management software), but gloms onto the library
>already in place.
>
>>- are there any playlists to define (supposing that all you have as
>>a source is a networked hard drive)
>
>If your management software (e.g. iTunes) saves M3U-format
>playlists, Sonos will read them. You can also save a music queue as
>a Sonos Playlist.
>https://sonos.custhelp.com/cgi-bin/sonos.cfg/php/enduser/std_adp.php?p_faqid=55
>
>You don't need playlists to use Sonos, however. Most of my
>listening was to either individual albums or a shuffled genre.
>
>>- what about the quality of the sound (both transmitted and amplified)
>
>I found the sound quality to be superb, with either digital audio
>files or transmitted (analog-imported) audio. I didn't spend much
>time with compressed analog audio, as the delay was too distracting.
>Uncompressed audio sounded wonderful.
>
>cheers,
>Andrew

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