Jay Peters
You can now gripe to Sonos about its app on the weekends, too.
As Sonos tries to win back trust following the rough rollout of its new app, you can now reach Sonos support on Saturday and Sunday.
Speakers
Speakers are foundational to the way we enjoy music from Spotify, Apple Music, and other services — and our own music collections. And increasingly, they’re also a convenient way of controlling smart home devices compatible with Amazon Alexa, Google Home, or Siri. Companies like Sonos offer multiroom audio platforms capable of synchronizing music across speakers of all different sizes. Whether you’re looking for a smart speaker or a simple Bluetooth speaker to take everywhere, The Verge covers the best of what’s out there in 2025.
Jay Peters
Sonos is reportedly partnering with another company on the OS for its TV streaming device.
Friend of The Verge Janko Roettgers reports that the partner is The Trade Desk, an advertising company. From today’s Lowpass newsletter:
Under the arrangement, The Trade Desk is supplying Sonos with the core smart TV OS, and facilitating deals with app publishers, while Sonos is designing its own hardware, and customizing the user interface.
Chris Welch
A former Sonos employee vents about the company’s “eroding” core values.
“Incompetence has infected top management” at Sonos, according to a former engineer’s Reddit post.
This ex-employee — I’ve confirmed their credentials — also says the culture within Sonos took a sharp turn for the worse with the original Roam. That speaker became the first glaring example of a product rushed out the door despite internal warnings. It wouldn’t be the last.
Reminder: I’m reachable on Signal at chriswelch.01.
Antonio G. Di Benedetto
Jay Peters
Sonos’ CEO has joined Threads — and is doing some damage control.
Sonos’ Patrick Spence said on Reddit this week that the company wouldn’t be able to bring back the old app, and today, he made a series of posts on Threads about the company’s efforts and what it has learned.
“In hindsight, one thing that is clear is that we shouldn’t have introduced such a big change so quickly,” he said.
Nilay Patel
Sonos puts the apology for the new app right in the app.
Can’t think of the last time I opened an app to an apology for how buggy the app is!
Antonio G. Di Benedetto
Antonio G. Di Benedetto
Chris Welch
Antonio G. Di Benedetto
Antonio G. Di Benedetto
Andrew Liszewski
Heavy metal wireless speaker plays more than just heavy metal.
Embracing sustainability with a design made from a single block of milled aluminum, Nocs Labs’ $1,289 Monolith x Aluminum is an 8.8 pound wireless speaker featuring Bluetooth, Wi-Fi, and support for Spotify and Tidal. Its five drivers include a pair of four-inch woofers all powered by a 15 hour rechargeable battery, and up to eight of the speakers can be paired for synced playback.
1/3The Nocs Labs Monolith x Aluminum speaker weighs in at a hefty 8.8 pounds. Image: Nocs Labs
David Pierce
Chris Welch
Sonos says TV Audio Swap will come to the Beam and Ray in “late summer / early fall.”
In a live Q&A video, Sonos’ Adib Mehrabi and Cameron MacLeod offered a more specific timeframe for when the Ace’s signature feature will expand to the company’s other soundbars. Sonos is targeting late summer / early fall.
That’s also when Android users will be able to set up TV Audio Swap in the first place.
Chris Welch
Replacing the Sonos Ace battery is easy. The headband? Less so.
iFixit has completed its teardown of the Sonos Ace headphones, and it’s always interesting to see how a company’s first product in a new category differs from what’s come before.
The battery seems easy enough to swap for a new one. However, Sonos has warned there’s “a pretty important acoustic seal” that you risk damaging if you get it wrong.
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Antonio G. Di Benedetto
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