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Mac OS 10.6.8 compatibility

Forum|Forum|11 years ago
August 30, 2015
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Hello lovely SONOS people.

Hope you can assist with this, sorry if it's been asked before!!

I'm running an iMac with 10.6.8 which holds my iTunes library and has been working solidly for, well, for a very lond time. It's an original Intel 17 inch machine which alas can't have the software updated any further.

For some reason, and I cant explain why, my SONOS controller software on this machine no longer works so, I'm looking to re-load it with a download from the SONOS site.

The latest software will not work with my machine but I can't locate a software archive for a older suitable version.

Could you please help and give me a link for the software that will work with 10.6.8.

Thanks in advance to all the great community contributors.

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Stuart_W

World-Class Superstar

Have you spoken to Sonos? They may be able to offer you some practical advice. They won't be able to make your Mac work on Snow Leopard 10.6.8 but they may have other ideas. As has been mentioned it would definitely be worth looking ot obtain a hand held device to control your Sonos - you might even learn to love your Sonos in a whole new way.

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Chris

Lead Maestro

Decision to move forward. It's done they were required to leave it behind and it is gone forever. You can complain but the facts won't change. Is 10.6.8 has a flaw that Sonos could not overcome in moving three controller forward. End of 10.6.8.

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gjg365

Lyricist III

I emailed Sonos customer support first. Only option is to upgrade. I have other devices but I use my desktop a lot. It's easier for me to search for new music on my desktop. I often work at home and it's easy to control my listening on my desktop when I'm working. It's convenience thing for me. And habit. I'm old and old habits are hard to break. Old people like me get cranky when you mess with routines. 🙂

ratty

If it was a technical decision to abandon 10.6.8 it was simply because some new/revised functionality couldn't work. If it was a business decision it was based on the disproportionate cost of having to maintain specific development resource to support an obsolete OS for a minority of customers on account of that OS's lack of compatibility with later versions.

Either way it's technical, and Apple -- or your reluctance to update the OS -- is the issue. WinXP SP3 is three years older than OS X 10.6.8 and yet remains a compatible platform.

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gjg365

Lyricist III

I agree. I can complain.

T

The LHC

Yes and you have now, it's getting you nowhere, so you might as well stop and just do the damn upgrade.

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gjg365

Lyricist III

Thanks but I don't need your advice.

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gjg365

Lyricist III

Why do you care if I complain? I'm in the minority. How much damage can I do to big bad Sonos? I'm just curious, why do you care? I care because I'm angry. Why do you care?

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The LHC

I don't care bit you're spamming the forum with this crap and it got boring a long time ago. You don't want advice, don't come to a support forum, it's not difficult. You've got your answer, either follow the advice or live with it, either way there's nothing more to be gained by your continued whining, it's a waste of everyone's time.

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gjg365

Lyricist III

Ignore me.

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