Nearly 20 years ago I had something called SageTV throughout my house, which streamed video and music to all my TV’s.  It was a great product, well ahead of its time.  Google bought it and shut it down.  $1000+ of investment but I just chucked it all in the trash.

I am wondering if we are getting that point with sonos.  Every app version for 10 years has been worse than the last, with the latest (at least android) being an unusable disaster, made worse by the fact that Sonos won’t even admit it is a mess.  For those of us who use Sonos, like I did with SageTV, to stream our own digital files, I am not sure Sonos is ever going to support us again.  Google shut down SageTV because it did not want non-paid competition to its anticipated streaming services and streaming devices.  We see the EXACT same thing at Sonos, as Sonos is clearly deprecating the “my library” function in their interface and built the Android version such that it crashes if you even attempt to stream something from your own library rather than from a paid service.  

So if we get to the point that Sonos is another dead end, what is the next choice for a similar system to stream my own ripped CD’s on my home network?