Also, you should be able to drag and drop songs into a playlist from Windows Explorer (an example of how user friendliness is also somewhat lacking from both the mobile and PC softwares

I'm very critical when it comes to music and sound, so it's been difficult for me to embrace 'smaller' because everything I've heard for years has lacked fullness (unless you just like to tweak with frequencies...

The Ugly - Another downfall is the lack of integration with Google Music - but I guess Google does not want to partner up with anyone.

The lack of Airplay/bluetooth/etc is a huge technical miss here as the app can't compete with native apps - for example the iOS podcast play is way better and the Amazon Music apps has a better search.

In particular to this speaker, its good on space - but you will miss (probably) the lack of two speakers distributed, that produce a more stereo effect

I'm sorry to say, due to unreliability, early failure, lack of backward compatibility and way too much time spent to use a $300

I'm hoping these sound better as they break in.

The integration with pandora, songza and 15 other music services is as slick as it gets and my play 3 and 5 sound as good as I've ever hear 44k sampled mp3's get.

My advice: buyer beware-as always

This includes the bass and treble, balance, as well as 'Loudness'Cons:-Colors: I'm into aesthetics and I think the white one is just horribly ugly

I wasn't expecting my parents to enjoy it nearly as much as they did but within minutes they had figured out how to use the Sonos app and were playing music every morning by the time I woke up during my visit

(I have since moved it to my workshop), and put the Play:3 next to it to compare; the Sonos unit sounds at least as good across the entire audio range, and to my taste, sounding as good as

I returned this speaker as fast as I could

We can both control the speaker to work with a variety of phone apps such as Audible and Spotify as well as with our Alexa Echo.