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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.

I know you want to vent, and that’s fine, we’re all a bit fed up with the current app, but what speakers do you have? 

If they can be ‘downgraded’ to the S1 system, most of the things you have lost may well return, and being on S1 means you can avoid the latest updates and ‘improvements’. 

 


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