Leaving Sonos behind

Thank you for sharing.

Yes, thanks for sharing, ‘cos these are open forums for everyone to share their views and opinions.

Thomas can you tell which system you finally chose ? I don’t think I’m quite ready to rip out my system just yet, but it always pays to have an open mind. Sonos where the only game in town when I bought into it, but nobody would deny that this is no longer the case

Andrew

Don't get me wrong, I really liked my Sonos!
The only tasks I used it for were:
-playing from my local library
-playing the Sonos favourites, which consisted only of my favourite radio stations.
Whatever was added to the software over the years did not have any impact on me.
Having said this, my new system consist of a Logitech Squeezeserver running on my NAS, a used Squeezebox Touch, a DIY Squeezeplayer (Raspberry PI based) and the Orange Squeeze app running on a cheap Android phone.
Fits my humble needs perfectly, was cheap and is very reliable so far.

With a new note 8 and ANOTHER sonos update..... my marrage to sonos my be headed for devorce court.
Dont know who to blame BUT..... their NOT speaking to each other.
AND....of couse they decided to fight just befor my dinner party. Over this relationship. By the way....that new update suckzzzzz....

Such a shame the amazing hardware has been badly let down with the latest app.

I'm too far in ££ wise now so have to just suck it and see, hopefully Sonos can redeem themselves to some extent with the next update ..

Such a shame the amazing hardware has been badly let down with the latest app.

I'm too far in ££ wise now so have to just suck it and see, hopefully Sonos can redeem themselves to some extent with the next update ..

What's your issue(s) with the new app?

Just Deleated sosos app and reinstalled. It connected....set music... THEN no more control, Can't even change the volumn.
hear we go again. And I invested in 6 play 3 and 5.Plus a bridge to a nicer sound system. I believe in serious music. Sonos.....what have you done. Now considering bailing out BUT MY INVESTMENT?

... and I never had any serious issues at all!
Only once there was an update which degraded the sound quality of mp3 radio streams.
But this was fixed within some days.

Such a shame the amazing hardware has been badly let down with the latest app.

I'm too far in ££ wise now so have to just suck it and see, hopefully Sonos can redeem themselves to some extent with the next update ..

What's your issue(s) with the new app?

All of it, poor use of screen space, none intuitive (for me compared to 7.4), more swipes/ presses/ scrolling to get to the same point, sometimes I find myself looking at it trying to work out the sequence where as before it would have already been done.

Trying to work out what I was doing wrong with quick grouping today, I realised it was unpredictable/ broken.

Trying to look like a faux iPhone app has done it no favours at all.

Sonos have basically rolled out an unfinished app with no nod to any feedback from beta testing (if there was any which is doubtful).

I'm not stupid, use multi make vehicle diagnostic tools daily etc but Sonos 8.0 is not a joy to use, which it should be.

It should showcase my £2000 investment not make it a fight to use, which it feels like at a moment..

Trying to work out what I was doing wrong with quick grouping today, I realised it was unpredictable/ broken.

Trying to look like a faux iPhone app has done it no favours at all.


Many of the reported symptoms surface for updates even where there is no UI change. They relate to IP address conflicts exposed by the update. Research fixing these issues and fix them. They will arise in future also, if left unfixed.

The problem is that a UI refresh has to necessarily involve an update and the system can then appear to be broken for two reasons, compounding the problem. A large part of which is fixable by users by doing some research.