Attention Sonos owners out there - Sonos released version 2.6 of their Sonos System Software today which gives customers access to free music downloads valued at around $200 dollars once they register their new or upgrade their existing Sonos Multi-Room Music System. The one-button update is free to all Sonos customers and is available now for download.

Once you register or upgrade your system with the new Sonos 2.6 software, you will receive $200 dollars worth of DRM-free music from Sonos partners Classical.com, eMusic, and LiveDownloads.com. Sonos provided an example of what registered customers would receive:

• 3 DRM-free albums (1 classical, 1 jazz and 1 world) from Classical.com. Classical.com is a digital music service with a library dedicated to the latest and greatest classical, jazz, & blues and world music. Browse by composer, genre or country and explore new music with the Classical.com playlists.
• 50 DRM-free music downloads and 1 free audio book from eMusic. eMusic is the world’s largest retailer of independent music, offering more than 3.5 million tracks from thousands of the world’s top independent labels spanning every genre of music.
• 10 full, DRM-free concerts (MP3) from LiveDownloads.com. LiveDownloads is the ultimate download source for live concert recordings. Download last night’s show from hundreds of artists and browse the catalog of more than 100,000 exclusive live tracks.

Other new features added in Sonos 2.6 include:

• Support for SonosNet™ 2.0 and MIMO (Multiple Input Multiple Output) wireless technology
• Support for larger music collections with up to 65,000 tracks stored on a local music collection stored on a PC, Mac or Network Attached Storage (NAS) devices
• Support for NasBasic firmware which allows more than 15 different brands of NAS devices to serve as a local music source
• Support for Apple® Computer operating system Mac OS X Leopard

You can read more about Sonos Software 2.6 by going to http://www.sonos.com/support/software_updates/

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