What do you think of the new 6.4 software?

Had my first party tonight since 6.4. No one replaced the queue completely but there was a LOT of inadvertent Play Now killing whatever was playing

You must not have handed out the manuals. ;)

All parties must hereby start with a Sonos playlist safety briefing going forward :o))

There just weren't as many people trying the beta. Now hat full release people are seeing it for the first time. Actually - the play now issue wasn't in early betas as far as I remember. Play now was added mid cycle with the problem we are now seeing. But the issue was well pointed out in beta!

There just weren't as many people trying the beta. Now hat full release people are seeing it for the first time. Actually - the play now issue wasn't in early betas as far as I remember. Play now was added mid cycle with the problem we are now seeing. But the issue was well pointed out in beta!
But many of the people grumbling loudly now are regulars here, who must have been loudly vocal on the beta as well??

And in general, from seeing conversations on public beta releases in the past, I have come to think that these are pointless. Sonos doesn't do anything in response to anything that is said about them, for the formal release. AFAIK.

As a predominantly IOS household, participating in the beta is a pain. I gave up a few versions ago.

Apple has a mechanism called "Testflight" that allows beta testing but Sonos doesn't use it.

Hence, Sonos miss out on beta testing from a large slice of the user community.

I have been grumbling loudly for some time

There just weren't as many people trying the beta.
This munted forum platform may be responsible for that. Since the asteroid hit this has become a comparative ghost town.

Also all of the discussion was happen up in Announcements, which may not be where people drift into.. Given that Sonos blogs are closed to comments, I initially assumed that Announcements were also.

As a predominantly IOS household, participating in the beta is a pain. I gave up a few versions ago.


But hey, you have the Trueplay thing:-)

I gave up on public beta participation even without being IOS centric. Little gain from participating, and too many updates to the beta that needed more effort to get them installed than what the formal releases do, and much of it is tinkering around the fringes anyway.

As a predominantly IOS household, participating in the beta is a pain. I gave up a few versions ago.

Apple has a mechanism called "Testflight" that allows beta testing but Sonos doesn't use it.

Hence, Sonos miss out on beta testing from a large slice of the user community.

What's the particular pain in participating as an iOS user? I was able to participate without much issue.

Don't IOS devices lose significant functionality when public beta updates are installed?

iOS beta are private betas. If you did an iOS beta you were not public as far as I know.