Sonos says no to Spotify (but only for now)
Connected hi-fi maker Sonos says it’s not planning to support Spotify any time soon, but that’s due to technical issues rather than a point of principle. “The way they offer the content isn’t easy for us to be able to push that out to the thousands of controllers and systems we have in the market,” says co-founder Thomas Cullen, whose company already supports Napster, Last.fm and Deezer on its systems. It’s because Spotify’s API isn’t as open as rivals like Last.fm, so a company like Sonos would need a dedicated app on every device. Is this a big problem for Spotify? Not right now, but if at some point it decides it needs to integrate with home music systems, it seems logical that it’ll open out its API to do so.
July 28th, 2009 at 9:18 pm
How about a free, legal music festival just using Spotify playlists?
http://www.invisiblefestival.org
Check it out. We have 50 VIP spotify passes to give away for the weekend so you can listen advert free
mark
August 31st, 2009 at 6:10 pm
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