I have 4 Sonos One speakers.  Obviously I thought they were good if I bought 4 of them.  Via forced updates over a period of years they have been rendered useless for my original use for them.

Every streaming service I like, that doesn’t require an account, has been disconnected from the Sonos App and can’t be used.  But I can use them on any smart phone just fine.

There is no option whatsoever to stream MP3s from a network storage device onto your Sonos.  Yes I’ve read all the deeply technical guides on how to, in theory, create a network share that Sonos MIGHT see.  If your NAS supports the latest network file sharing protocols, which it probably doesn’t.

Useless.

Any dumb blue tooth speaker + my smart phone is superior to Sonos at this point.  I can stream MP3 directly from my phone.  I can use Radio.net app or whatever app I want to stream music to the speaker.  I can do NONE of this with Sonos anymore.

As I write this I’m looking at my phone Sonos App and it says “Sonos system needs a software update” but when I press “Start Update” nothing happens.  So effectively I have no way to control my Sonos devices at all currently.

I am trying to sell them used but frankly I feel bad about trying to pass this products onto someone else because I know what I’m selling - garbage.  Sonos represents everything wrong with American business and internet connected devices.  A complete disaster.