macOS controller and Apple Silicon

That too - much of my music library is on NAS storage and not available via website.

You guys really are comics… 🤣

Just a lot of bad experiences with Apple. My last Apple device just told me it won't update as the latest os requires more free memory than I have.

On the other hand my Sonos, back to a first generation Play 1, are happily playing music.

I guess I just don’t understand. Where you store your music doesn’t change whether or not the web app works. You can continue to store music in either your Mac or an NAS. As long as Sonos can ‘reach’ the data, it will continue to play, it makes no difference to the Sonos ‘player’ that exists not as the controller does, on your device, but at the speaker level. The controller, whether OS based, or web based, is merely a ‘window’ to display what the Sonos system on your speakers is doing.

My most sincere apologies if I’ve riled up some folks. That certainly wasn’t my intent, only to offer no to super low cost options to keep their Sonos speakers running. And specifically, I’m not a Sonos employee, otherwise I’d have ‘Sonos Employee’ next to my name on every post, like the moderators do. I am, however, an Apple user, almost exclusively. 

My Intel Mac was given to me by work, my M1 Mac was a personal purchase. And no, I’m not ecstatic about Apple’s choice to no longer support Intel based Macs, but being in software myself, I understand the inability of a company to support an app when the OS is no longer supported. Shoot, I have tons of old games that will never run on newer versions of OS brought out by both Apple and Microsoft. For better or worse, Sonos stopped supporting both the desktop OS apps (Mac and Windows) years ago, in favor of mobile apps. 
 

The web app is absolutely terrible for playing from your local music library. Especially for people who have less than perfect internet.

That is odd, the web controller is just a controller, no music data flows through it, so I'm not sure why you would see an issue with your music library. What are you seeing?

Not saying it doesn't have other issues or lack features.

Music doesn’t flow through it but all interactions with it are over the internet. There is no album art. There is no search. The index has no quick jump letters. It’s slow scrolling forever to reach letters later in the alphabet. Have you tried it?

I take the “no search” back. When you click in search, it shows your services and sonos radio. But not the music library. When you actually search, the music library does get included and re-appears. I’m not sure when that was added.

Sonos has been moving away from the computer based OS app for years. It first started when they took away setup functionality which you can now only do with your phone or tablet (iOS or Android). That move upset customers to no end; but hey…I got over it and moved on. I’m to the point now that I’ve forgotten it. In fact I don’t use the computer based app even today.

Full disclosure I’m Apple everything. Which includes four computers. Haven’t even thought about using the MacOS app. My phone and tablet do everything. There’s nothing that the MacOS app does differently nor better.

OK…so you’ve got all your music stored on your Mac. All you need is a path to that location which is to create a Music library via your phone or tablet that will also be available via the Web app. Frankly, you’d be better served with a NAS solution.

I like someone else has said l’m not trying to rile you up (although I’ve been guilty of such) 😂. However, the bottom-line is that companies (including Sonos) have to make decisions  as to what they will continue to support in terms of software development. Supporting multiple platforms creates cost regarding development and paid tech support personnel (unlike myself and others in this community). BTW we are not tech support in the strict sense of the term. We’re just people who volunteer our time to help for the love of the Sonos product which isn’t always perfect. But…what product is 🤔

I know what I’ve expressed in this post isn’t going to change the minds of those that are furious with Sonos not supporting Apple Silicon. Hopefully some will think again about what they perceive as a loss.

I have no problem with the desktop apps going away. I have a problem pretending the web app is a replacement for a program running locally on your computer sending/receiving data directly to devices on your local network. Just like when the big S2 “rewrite” was having volume changes sent to the cloud and back. Causing all sorts of issues with volume controls lagging/not in sync or just not working. Eventually fixed to send volume changes locally to devices. Well, the web app volume control over the internet is just as bad.

BS!!  Sonos dropped support for the original Play 3, Play 5 and the original Sonos Amp.  They tried to get everyone to trade them in, but that didn’t work.  Yes they will still play music.  The only way was to download the original S1 app to your phone.  They are no better than any other company dropping support for older products, and now refusing to keep up with technology they have had six years to address.