trueplay for Android?

Amazing how people that the more people have the more they want. What's the problem with slipping your phone in your pocket or slapping it on a holster? Especially when its such an integral part of your sound system. Sometimes you have to adapt.

Yeah, why do people have such a problem understanding what the "mobile" in "mobile phone" actually means? It means it doesn't have to be left in one place! Utterly bizarre, my phone is never anywhere other than my pocket.

Just something else to complain about in my opinion.

Someone who would contemplate spending $3300 on dedicated controllers has an interesting kind of problem.

Someone who would contemplate spending $3300 on dedicated controllers has an interesting kind of problem.

Compared to the cost of 22 zones of players the controller cost was trivial... until Sonos started disabling functionality on them. I'm not going to criticize people who want to be tethered to an electronic device they carry all the time. It just isn't the paradigm I wanted when I purchased my system.

But this is getting off the original point that Sonos could better manage Trueplay support if they had more control over the hardware it was using.

When you purchased, I'm assuming you got a zone or two and a CR100 or 200. Was the smartphone app an option for you at the time?

When you purchased, I'm assuming you got a zone or two and a CR100 or 200. Was the smartphone app an option for you at the time?

No it was not yet an available option and I would not have paid much attention to it even if it was. I started with 6 zones and 3 controllers to test things out and then expanded from there. I'm sure I would have gone in a different direction if there was no dedicated controller at that time. I certainly didn't picture a future where Sonos would be so vulnerable to the shortcomings of third party hardware.

Upstatemike, I think you need to understand that just because you personally are able to drop thousands of dollars on dedicated controllers you are a vanishingly small minority in the market. The majority of people could never contemplate that and would much rather just have a free app. Those are the people driving the market, not you.

I can only suggest you replace your Sonos with a system that provides you with a hardware controller if you feel that strongly about it.

Cheap droid devices are less than the price of most of the Sonos-provided controllers.

Or even low spec iPod Touches.