Are there any plans to build out he desktop app with more functionality; e.g., bringing Roon labs features? The desktop app seems stuck in a 1984 UI look/feel/function form? There is no recommendation engine or artist/track background information provided, like in Roon Labs. Roon Labs does not provide mobile functionality, you can only use it at home.
Hence, two build outs are necessary.
Thanks!
No. Both desktop apps have been feature frozen for 4? years, and had most of the config settings removed as well.
Mind you the data you want to see is not exposed by SMAPI, which is the API every music service uses on Sonos. Unlike Roon this allows Sonos to support ~80 music services.
Are there any plans to build out he desktop app with more functionality; e.g., bringing Roon labs features? The desktop app seems stuck in a 1984 UI look/feel/function form? There is no recommendation engine or artist/track background information provided, like in Roon Labs. Roon Labs does not provide mobile functionality, you can only use it at home.
Hence, two build outs are necessary.
Thanks!
It is now easier than it was five or six years ago, to craft a brand new open source desktop app. I wrote a trimmed down one back then that ran on Surface and Microsoft Phone but this was a glorified hobby. I don’t know why SONOS don’t just make the app open source or at least start an initiative to encourage others to do so.
I believe their app is written in unmanaged code, whereas the stuff I crafted was all 100% .Net.
The UPnP specification is established and there are tools from Intel to aid in testing and development.
For recommendations and artist/album metadata, some of the service provider apps are pretty good. I use the Tidal app, which has become quite good, with Tidal Connect to my WiiM Mini renderer. Not sure whether Sonos now supports Tidal Connect or Spotify Connect, but if so, that’s the best way to overcome the Sonos app’s many limitations.
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