Indeed: Amazon made a splash in 2015 with the Amazon Echo line of speakers, which let users talk to its virtual assistant, Alexa Google responded with the Google Home product line, which talks to Google Assistant and next week, Apple is scheduled to release its own smart speaker, HomePod, which works with Siri.īut Spence doesn’t worry that Sonos’ customers are going to jump ship. I was joking with the team, the reward for having disrupted the space over the last decade is to get to compete with Apple and Google and Amazon.” “There were a lot of people, back when we started, saying, ‘There’s no way you could ever compete with Bose and Sony,’ the heavyweights of audio at the time,” Sonos CEO Patrick Spence said on the latest episode of Too Embarrassed to Ask. (I’ve purchased the Android and iOS versions.) It’s highly recommended.Over the past 16 years, the wireless speaker company Sonos has had to contend with a parade of naysayers who thought competitors would knock it out. But I recommend doing so, as I’ve never found a podcast app that works this good, and this consistently across platforms. It’s not free, and you actually have to purchase each client independently. Pocket Casts is available on Android, iOS, and the web. Shift Jelly says it will be adding more features to this Sonos integration over time. Meaning, you can start a podcast on your phone, continue it on your Sonos, and then pick it up again later at the correct place on your phone again. (It would be nice if you could just “cast” to Sonos from the Pocket Casts app and other apps.) So instead of the normal podcast-based UI, you get New Releases, In Progress and Starred links, each of which provides a list of episodes across multiple podcasts.īecause Pocket Casts maintains a cloud-based library, however, you do at least get seamless playback. Then, open the Sonos app and navigate to Add Music Services in the menu and then to Pocket Casts.Īs is usually the case, the look and feel of Pocket Casts is completely different on Sonos. To do so, first install Pocket Casts on your phone and sign-in to your account. Pocket Casts on Sonos is currently in beta, but any Sonos user can access it. “Judging by the amount of tweets and emails we’ve had over the years this is one of your most requested features and we’re excited to finally share it with you.” “We’re excited to announce that Pocket Casts support for Sonos has gone into Beta,” a new post to the Shift Jelly blog reads. But let’s focus on this week’s good news. This is good news for me, and it leaves Audible as my only regularly-used audio service that isn’t available on Sonos. Pocket Casts-my preferred podcast service-is now available via the Sonos smart speakers in an open beta.
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