I bought a Sonos Era 100 to use in conjunction with a 2019 Macbook Air running Venture 13.3.1. It became clear that the Sonos speaker was not suitable for me and I took it back.
But now after I deleted the Sonos app almost all of my audio files cannot be opened by any of the applications I use for audio (Quicktime Player, VLC, the Amazing Slow Downer, or the infuriating Music).
I thought it might be something to do with permissions as it seemed for a while that if I copied a file to the desktop and deleted the “SonosDM” from the permission list on the Info panel it would open. But then that seemed to stop working. I tried various things: disk first aid in recovery mode, deleting some Sonos folders that were still in ~/Library, abundant restarts.
Oh how weird. I seem to have fixed the problem (at least for now!): I attempted to change the default open-with of one mp3 file from Quicktime player to VLC. It wouldn’t take but now it seems that file and every one I’ve tried opens as expected.
This whole experience has been an infuriating waste of time and effort: Sonos has been troublesome to say hello to and troublesome to say goodbye to. I’m tempted to revert the laptop to a pre-Sonos back-up just to much sure it’s returned to itspast generally reliable state.
I’ll still go ahead and post this question as not yet sure I’m out of the woods and also wouldn’t mind understanding what has happened.
Thanks in advance,
Andrew