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May 9, 2024
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NAS or library removed from the new app???

  • May 9, 2024
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It seems that the ability to play from a local library or a NAS server has been removed in the new app.
This has major consequences for us who play music in an Odd Fellow lodge that we ourselves have recorded and own.
This means that sonos is now completely useless to us.

It is a significant deterioration and means that we can no longer can use sonos at all, and must find a new alternative.

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    Ken_Griffiths
    Ken_Griffiths
    June 30, 2024

    It does work, I’ve just quickly tried it again. I took a few screenshots. it’s just not the best user-experience, i guess, without the internet connection.

    In any event, the Sonos system requirements do state an internet connection is required to use their system.

    Superunknown
    Trending Lyricist I
    June 30, 2024

    For you yes, but for me it doesn’t. It’s almost as though this buggy, half-baked update and app might work differently for different people due to any number of variables!

    This is the app after connecting to the system it tells me exists on my local network. All I’ve done is deny the two Sonos Rays in question access to the internet via MAC filtering.

    The same system is working perfectly, right now, via the old S2 app on another device, despite the two Rays having no internet access. If I remove the MAC filter the new app will instantly work again. 
     

     

      press250
      press250
      Prodigy III
      June 30, 2024

      This is the app after connecting to the system it tells me exists on my local network. All I’ve done is deny the two Sonos Rays in question access to the internet via MAC filtering.

      The same system is working perfectly, right now, via the old S2 app on another device. If I remove the MAC filter the new app will instantly work again. 

      I’ve seen exactly the same behavior, @Superunknown. Last month I poked and prodded the new app in an effort to better understand its interactions with sonos.com and the handful of third-party servers. At least one of those servers implements “feature flags” for the new app: we’ve already documented the counter-intuitive behavior of alarms and sleep timers disappearing from the menus when DNS privacy filtering blocks access … 

      FWIW, I duplicated your MAC filtering result by blocking access to the third-party servers.

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