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Question

NAS or library removed from the new app???

Forum|Forum|2 years ago
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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Alexis NAS Music Enjoyer

Lyricist I

If I understand well their latest statements, Sonos is assuring they are going to reinstall the local Music library capability on their next app release, in the next few weeks they say, by mid-june….. Do you in thIs community think they are trustworthy?

I do not believe Sonos would release the app with what they consider core functionality broken. As local playback from a NAS no longer works, it must not be considered a core function by them. Will they add this functionality back in a month or two? I hope so, but I do not believe it will be supported in the long term.

Speculation

Sonos could find that most new sales are made by customers who use it for streaming. Maybe this is a larger market, perhaps they can get a kickback from the streaming servers or launch their own streaming service.

Customers who purchase Sonos speakers to listen to their music have a single interaction with the Sonos Company, thus a single income point for the company. I'm sure they would love to have a continuing source of revenue and are trying to work towards this. I'm sure they are feeling the pain of trying to add new features while maintaining the functionality of legacy equipment.

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Nemak

Lyricist I

Any ideas why downgrade is switched off? 🤔

Why we can’t use this option? 😤

jgatie

Any ideas why downgrade is switched off? 🤔

Why we can’t use this option? 😤

Downgrade the app? It’s never been allowed, so how can it be switched off when it’s never been switched on?

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Nemak

Lyricist I

Any ideas why downgrade is switched off? 🤔

Why we can’t use this option? 😤

Downgrade the app? It’s never been allowed, so how can it be switched off when it’s never been switched on?

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Nemak

Lyricist I

Any ideas why downgrade is switched off? 🤔

Why we can’t use this option? 😤

Downgrade the app? It’s never been allowed, so how can it be switched off when it’s never been switched on?

you can see alone, how ...

Airgetlam

That’s a change of OS, not a downgrade of the app.

Bruce

jgatie

you can see alone, how ...

If you can’t see the difference between a complete change of platform/system and reverting to a prior version of the same app, I’m not going to explain it.

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Nemak

Lyricist I

That’s a change of OS, not a downgrade of the app.

“Sonos app version 80.0
The ability to downgrade a Sonos product to S1 is temporarily unavailable, but will return in a future update. ok, “downgrade … … is temporarily unavailable”

there was option to go back but ok it’s not “downgrade”