Sonos, maker of some the best wireless speaker systems in the world, revealed today that it will add support for Apple Music by the end of the year.
The says a public beta for Apple Music on Sonos will be made available December 15. Sonos’ integration with Apple Music will allow subscribers to access the For You, My Music, New and Radio features of the service. A general availability to all users is scheduled for an early 2016 launch.
We’ve gushed about Sonos speakers on Cult of Mac for years. Their speakers sound great, and are amazingly easy to set up and use to create a house-wide sound system. Apple has admired them for a while, too.
“We’re big fans of Sonos,” Apple SVP of Internet Software and Services Eddy Cue told BuzzFeed News. “We’ve been looking forward to this.”
Sonos speakers already offer a huge list of streaming music services, so the Apple Music addition seemed inevitable. Beats Music was available on the speakers before it was shut down, but Apple wasn’t quite ready to integrate Apple Music into the speakers when the service launched this summer.
“It’s important to get the integration right the first time out,” Cue said. “Apple has a high bar for this stuff; so does Sonos. Apple Music isn’t even 6 months old yet, so this really did not take much time at all.”
Buster Hein is a freelance writer who lives in Phoenix, Arizona. Twitter: @bst3r.
