Sonos Now Streaming Rdio in New Zealand And Australia

STREAM ALL THE MUSIC ON EARTH WIRELESSLY IN EVERY ROOM

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Sonos Now Streaming Rdio in New Zealand And Australia

Napier, NEW ZEALAND January 20, 2012 Sonos, Inc., the leading developer of wireless music systems for the home, today announced that even more great music is now available on the award-winning Sonos Wireless HiFi System. Starting today, Sonos customers in New Zealand and Australia can enjoy unlimited, on-demand music, courtesy of social music service Rdio.

"Our goal at Sonos is to provide music lovers with access to all the music on the planet," said John MacFarlane, CEO, Sonos, Inc. "By continually adding innovative services like Rdio to the experience, Sonos customers will be able to discover and enjoy unlimited music possibilities in any room of their home."

Rdio provides Sonos customers with a unique social music discovery experience at home. Search, browse and play anything from Rdio’s more than 12 million song library, as often as you’d like, throughout your entire home. Plus, follow the musical tastes of friends and influencers, share your favorite songs and playlists, explore thousands of themed playlists, and even check out what’s in "heavy rotation" by other Rdio listeners.

Starting today, you’ll find Rdio on Sonos under the More Music menu on any Sonos Controller. For $13.90 per month users can subscribe to get unlimited web and mobile streaming. For $8.90 they can get unlimited web streaming. Not a Rdio subscriber? Try it for free with a 7-day trial at www.rdio.com/

For music fans new to Rdio and Sonos, in addition to a subscription to Rdio, they can start simply with a SONOS PLAY:3 ($629) or SONOS PLAY:5 ($899) for instant wireless setup. The PLAY:3, the newest all-in-one player from Sonos, delivers big HiFi sound in a compact size. The PLAY:5 is the original bigger room, bigger sound, all-in-one Sonos player that’s a powerhouse of HiFi sound.
Rdio on Sonos adds to the broad choice of music services built directly into the Sonos music experience available in Australia and New Zealand.

On Sonos, you can tune in to more than 120,000 free Internet radio stations, shows and podcasts from around the world. You can also search and play songs, playlists and radio from the world’s most popular music services like AUPEO!, Stitcher, iHeartRadio, Wolfgang’s Vault, and more. And, Sonos can play your entire digital music library (like iTunes) stored on a computer or Network Attached storage drive in any or every room.

For more information about Sonos or to locate an authorized Sonos dealer in your area, please visit http://www.playback.co.nz

About Sonos, Inc.
Founded in 2002, Sonos® is the leading manufacturer of wireless music systems. The Sonos Wireless HiFi System lets you stream all the music on earth wirelessly in every room of your home with control from your Android® smartphone or tablet, iPhone®, or iPad®. In addition to playing your personal digital music collection, Sonos gives you access to millions of songs and thousands of radio stations by partnering with AUPEO, Deezer, iheartradio, JUKE, Last.fm, MOG, Pandora®, Rdio®, Rhapsody®, SiriusXM Internet Radio, Slacker Radio®, Spotify, Stitcher SmartRadio, TuneIn, Wolfgang’s Vault, and more. The award-winning Sonos Wireless HiFi System is available at more than ten thousand retailers in over 65 countries worldwide; or direct from Sonos at www.sonos.com. Sonos, Inc. is a privately-held company, headquartered in Santa Barbara, California with offices in Cambridge, Massachusetts, Hilversum, Netherlands, Beijing, China, and Penang, Malaysia.

© 2004-2012 Sonos Inc. All rights reserved. SONOS and all other Sonos product names and slogans are trademarks or registered trademarks of Sonos, Inc. SONOS Reg. U.S. Pat. & Tm. Off. All other products and services may be trademarks or service marks of their respective owners.

About Rdio
Rdio is the ground-breaking digital music service that is reinventing the way people discover, listen to, and share music. With on-demand access to over 12 million songs, Rdio connects people with music and makes it easy to search for and instantly play any song, album, artist or playlist without ever hearing a single ad. Discover what friends, people with similar tastes, recording artists and more are listening to in real-time and share across Twitter and Facebook. Build a digital music collection that’s available everywhere - on the web, in-home or in-car, on an iPad or smartphone, and even offline.

Launched in August 2010, Rdio is headquartered in San Francisco and was founded by Janus Friis, one of the creators of Skype. Currently available in the US, Canada, Germany, Australia and New Zealand, Rdio is funded by Atomico, Janus Friis through his investment entities, Skype and Mangrove Capital Partners. For more information and to sign up, visit www.rdio.com.

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