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Oboe
Avid Contributor III
April 13, 2018

8.5.1 - what is in it?

  • April 13, 2018
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It’s installed, but I can find no information on what is in the release. Any ideas?
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Chris
Chris
Lead Maestro
April 13, 2018
its really a lot of behind the scenes bug fixes and prep for whats to come in the spring. Nothing to really play around with new.
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Chris
Chris
Lead Maestro
April 13, 2018
The previously obscure "Confirm Location before Playback" is in the advanced settings now.

Turning on this option makes the controller ask you the room to play to if the controller has been inactive for a certain period of time. To keep you from accidentally grabbing the controller and playing a song in the wrong room.
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Stanley_4
Stanley_4
Grand Maestro
April 13, 2018
Having that location option has suddenly become important to me, since I added a Play 1 to the second bathroom and surprised someone in there who was otherwise occupied.
Chris
Chris
Lead Maestro
April 13, 2018
Stanley you can’t stay out of trouble these days.
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Alan_6
Prodigy II
April 13, 2018
its really a lot of behind the scenes bug fixes and prep for whats to come in the spring. Nothing to really play around with new.

Tweaks to the handling of favourites - changing how many are shown on "My Sonos" dashboard (awesome), removing the ability to flag a Sonos playlist as a favourite (annoying). Wonder if this means Sonos are finally going to address the desktop vs mobile differences, for those of us that use "whatever device is closest" as a controller.
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