macOS controller and Apple Silicon

I realise this thread is a month old but I too have landed here while searching on the recent macOS warning. It popped up updating to 17.2.3.

I use the Mac app because I’m on that most of the day. The iOS and iPadOS apps are shocking and I find them extremely hard to navigate and get anything to play. Basically I just change radio channels. I stream Apple Music to HomePods. I know others will disagree. I find the Watch Lyd app is more logical, but that’s limited.

It sounds like a childish comment from me but this will effectively kill off any Sonos versatility I now have. I’m not whinging. That’s all in the future, still so plenty of time to see how it goes and maybe save up for a surround sound system that will match my TV of choice. Someone will want my Sonos when and if it gets replaced as it is still good stuff.

I doubt very strongly that Sonos position regarding the MacOS app transitioning to silicon will ever happen. Especially so as Sonos stripped the functionality of the MacOS and Windows version years ago in anticipation of moving to the web based version.

I’ve seen a web version mentioned in the thread. I had no idea it existed, what it was and if it meant a literal browser.

Educating myself, I searched. I had a go of the “try it” button and it does indeed open my system but it is slow to perform an action, like volume up/down and I am not enamoured by the layout. I’ll have to try it more when I have time. Maybe it’ll be “bah! An extra tab!” and I’ll calm down.

Here is the announcement of the ‘new’ web app:

Note, it’s both two years ago, and a little lost in the combination of two apps….both mobile and web. Easy, IMHO, to miss. 

I made a new “web app” into the dock from Safari. That’s a start.

It occurred to be that we are putting a lot of trust in Sonos. I don’t think it beyond the wit of a hacker to at some time insert code into the web page that forms the controller and so execute it on our Macs/PCs. I’m just saying.

Just as much as them hacking in to your individual Mac’s, and executing code directly there. Just saying. 
 

Sure. I was thinking of a bulk attack rather than targeting individuals. Same with any site really. Maybe I could have just said it in my head but there’s so many voices… 

If I don’t get on with the web controller when I lose the current one, there’s always Menu Bar Controller for Sonos from the Lyd people. Lyd on Watch and iPhone is pretty good so likely the Mac version will be too, for a fee.

Moderator Edit: Link removed

“And in other news tonight, Sonos is reporting a cyber attack on their web app. Speakers in customers’ homes all over the world have been turned up to 46 and are playing Barry Manilow’s Copacabana on repeat. Sonos has said it is rolling out a fix, but has warned that it’s a phased roll-out so some users (especially those on Android phones) may find Barry singing loudly in their homes for up to two weeks. The CEO of Sonos has apologised and gone onto Reddit (rather than Sonos’ own forum) to explain what’s happening.”