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daylelunn
Trending Lyricist I
October 11, 2018

Compression Settings on Windows

  • October 11, 2018
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Why has the compression settings gone from the new Windows App? I can't find the "advanced" section anywhere! I used this all the time as i suffer from drop out when streaming music from my PC to other rooms, turning on compression helps with this, and I switch it back to uncompressed when watching youtube video etc on PC, as there is a delay when compression is on....

It's still there on the phone app, but not the Windows version!?
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mayyrh
Lyricist III
October 14, 2018
Seven replies, can anybody answer the question? Where is the compression settings, are they actually gone??
daylelunnAuthor
Trending Lyricist I
October 14, 2018
Yes it’s gone from the PC version. It’s on the App version only. 😠
John B
October 14, 2018
Seven replies, can anybody answer the question? Where is the compression settings, are they actually gone??This was answered by my first post. If you click the link you will see 'line in settings' listed as removed.
mayyrh
Lyricist III
October 15, 2018
Yeah I figured it out. Nice and direct way to answer the simple question. It's super rich that you attack this guy for using the compression feature. It's absolutely insane they did this and I am ultra-pissed that I cant change compression settings on my surface, they need to fix this or I'm rethinking my setup.
JeanLalonde
Lyricist I
October 29, 2018
BUT.... when you say you are streaming music from your PC, you presumably mean via a line-in? Because the compression setting only affects the audio through a line-in. But are you playing your music files that way, as well as YouTube audio? If so you are causing yourself unnecessary grief.

Are you talking on the behalf of Sonos? If yes, I find your reply quite disrespectful to customers.

And if no, this is your opinion and I can respect it. But we are a few here to disagree with you. iTunes is my library for more that 15 years now (> 30 K tunes) and it allows me to listen to my music the way I want using categories, playlists, smart playlists, comments, search, etc. I don't always like the way it evolved over the years but, fortunately, most of the its orignal features set has been preserved.

This is what I expect from a software developer: improve existing features, add new features, BUT keep existing features.

And I'm listening to my iTunes library from my computer as well as many other sources of sound, all this using the line-in with audio compression just because it is required if I want to play it in some other rooms.

I don't see any acceptable reason for having removed the compression option from the Windows app (especially since this option is still available in the app!). If it was because compression would not be required anymore (let's dream), I would understand. But, in my setup, audio compression is needed.

If I could suggest a change (why not), it would be to make this option more easily accessible. But, for now, I'll have to do it a much longer way using my iPhone...
jgatie
jgatie
October 29, 2018
Sonos representatives are clearly marked. John B is just a user, like you or I, albeit a very knowledgeable user.
    JeanLalonde
    Lyricist I
    October 30, 2018
    @jgatie: Thanks for the precision.

    @John B: Sorry for the tone of my message. Because I was upset by the Sonos decision from Sonos, I replied unfairly to your message.
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