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Thanks to pinkfloyd01 who picked up on this in the comments!įor more information about the developer, see my interview with Andy Pennell.Sonos is a hardware company. Happy to report the full list includeds Pandora, Spotify, MOG, Last.fm, iheartradio and WiMP I wasnt able to see the full range of services supported by Phonos (geo fenced via Sonos). If you have a Sonos system and a Windows Phone, Phonos is the app to get. That kind of support makes recommending this app even easier. It’s clear the developer is really keen to improve the app and support his users personally. Having tried the other apps in the marketplace, I can say with confidence that Phonos is simply the best Sonos controller available for Windows Phone. Considering how niche the market is for such a player, I’d expect it to come with a higher asking price. For people that have just gone out and splurged around £500 on a streaming music system, £7.99 isn’t very much to ask. There is some angst at the price of $9.99 (£7.99 in the UK). I have been to the marketplace and looked at user reviews. That looks very dapper and dare I say, does a better job than the Sonos offering elsewhere. If cover art is available, it will display that as a background to the now playing screen. The UI is intuitive overall and offers quick and easy access to grouping and music selection. Whilst not as full featured as Sonos’s own app on other platforms, it does present the best experience you can get from any app currently in the Windows Phone marketplace by a wide margin. Phonos fills a gap that is sadly left by the absence of an official Sonos offering. Improvements that I’d like to see, such as being able to skip, pause, and stop tracks from the lock screen are likely impossible due to how Windows Phone works. If you were hankering after any of the others, you will have either to wait or grab the official app on another platform. Those three certainly cover my own needs. Phonos currently supports three of these services: Last.fm, Rdio and Spotify. Sonos have been busy adding music services to their platform so now includes nine options you can stream through the player. I think a “select music source” button would have been far more discoverable. I found that a little counter-intuitive at first but once you know how it becomes second nature. Selecting a music source is handled by tapping the central cover art/album tile on the main screen.