era 300 front driver clarification

If the Era 300s are used as surrounds, the front-facing drivers will always be disabled even when streaming music in stereo.

Thanks for the answer. 

I am a long time Sonos user and find it hard to believe there is no manual or auto toggle switch in the app to turn it on.  This is such a common use case, it just blows my mind. Surely it can't be too hard of a technical challenge for them, but if it's not why isn't the option there?

Can a Sonos rep please provide some insight and at least let us know if it is on the roadmap?  I'm not looking for a date or firm commitment, just acknowledgement that devs have agreed that it's a design flaw or bug.  

I have read all the other threads from 6 months ago, so I think an update is on order. 

I don't think this info was on the arc or 300s product page and it may well have swayed my decision.

Thanks and I am optimistic Sonos will get this fixed soon because your products are amazing and I know the devs care about these important details. 

You aren’t going to get a roadmap.  Sonos almost never talks about works in progress, and never when the work is internal.

As this was requested 6 months ago, I’m just wanting to know the status of the request.  I’m a developer and to me this is less a feature request and more like a Sev 2 bug.  

If there are currently no plans to fix it, I would just like to know that.

Thanks in advance for any update you can give me, positive or negative.

@Corry P 

Let me warn you, Sonos doesn’t share their plans to us in the public, devs or not. I would guess in order to keep the competition in the dark, but that’s just a supposition. But they certainly don’t share with us what they’re working on, or plan to work on. 

As I said, you aren't going to get a status, a road map, a release plan, a punch list, an update, or anything else which amounts to them telling you what is coming down the road.  It isn't and never has been their policy.

I get what you are saying, but as this is a bug more than some kind of special sonos feature, I was hoping for an update of some kind.  I’m not aware of any similar situation with competing soundbar / front speakers, but please let me know if that is incorrect.

@Corry P could you possibly send me a PM at least?   I just want to know if there is even a possibility it could be fixed (not a commitment), or if a decision has been made that it’s working as designed and there are no plans to update it.  I don’t feel like that is asking to much.

Thanks, and as always I’m optimistic!

Probably not as Corry has become addicted to food and shelter, both of which along with the Sonos job would be at risk by violating Sonos policy.

I think on one of the Sonos live sessions the Sonos representatives mentioned this being a deliberate design choice. That would mean the chances they will do something about might be very low.

Thanks for the replies.  I don't see the big deal of a Sonos rep at least admitting there are no current plans to change this, but sounds like that is indeed the case. 

I just would love to know the reason why. Maybe there is a perfectly good explanation. I'm not claiming to be all knowing, I'm just curious by nature and an engineer so I'm always asking why when I don't understand something. 

Does anyone out there have any theories on why this would not be plausible or a good idea?  Maybe I'm just missing something obvious. I just want to play Spotify on my 300s with all drivers, then watch a movie with front drivers disabled. 

PS - jgatie, please don't yell, that hurt my ears