Sonos Radio is a new free streaming service ready to take on Apple Beats 1

First guest DJ set to be Radiohead’s Thom Yorke

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You’ve been listening to its speakers for years – now you’ll be able to listen toSonos’s own curated streaming service too, as today marks the launch of Sonos Radio.

Free to owners ofSonos speaker systems, such as theSonos Move, Sonos Radio is an ad-supported addition to the Sonos app. It’s somewhere like a halfway house between Spotify’s radio stations, and the more heavily curated (and also free) Beats 1 station fromAppleMusic.

Sonos Radio is split up into the following four sections:

According to Sonos, its users spend about half of all time listening on the speakers to radio stations. So with Sonos already supporting all the other money-making streaming services under the sun, it makes sense for it to offer its own ad-cash-taking money spinner.

In a statement accompanying the news, Thom Yorke had this to say of his involvement with the service – note the unusual formatting here is his own (the kook) so we’ve retained it for your difficult-to-scan pleasure:

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in a new form

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is that

ever rolling compilation / office chart habit of mine

of putting together what i have found recently that fascinates or moves me, what obsesses me, challenges me, opens new doors, reminds me of what i might have forgotten, is insanely complex or elegantly simple, violent, funny, messy, heavy or light. whatever has hit me over the head basically .

it may be new or old or just dug up again.

with all

this time we have behind doors i hope this provides a welcome connection and escape .. and perhaps stops the walls closing in quite so quick.”

Thanks for that, Thom.

Sonos Radio rolls out from April 21 as an over the air update to all Sonos speaker owners.

Gerald is Editor-in-Chief of iMore.com. Previously he was the Executive Editor for TechRadar, taking care of the site’s home cinema, gaming, smart home, entertainment and audio output. He loves gaming, but don’t expect him to play with you unless your console is hooked up to a 4K HDR screen and a 7.1 surround system. Before TechRadar, Gerald was Editor of Gizmodo UK. He is also the author of ‘Get Technology: Upgrade Your Future’, published by Aurum Press.

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