Hello all.
Have been a Sonos user for well over a decade. We have several Ones, Threes, Fives, Beams, Subs and Amps, and a brand new Roamer. Still amazed at the ease of connection. I know there’s lots of bad reviews out there, but we’ve focused on connecting the devices by ethernet - not wifi unless absolutely impossible. So now we have the Roamer and and an Amp connected by wifi, and all else is copper connected. And oddly enough, using the microwave in the kitchen still causes the Amp to loose connection. Old microwave, brand new microwave - no difference. But we live with that cause the rest of the system is so robust.
Anyway, I didn’t sit down to talk about that. What I wanted to talk about was Sonos useless Android and PC control apps. Honestly, I think the engineers at Sonos want us to only listen to Spotify…. NOT!!! These apps make it impossible to browse our NAS based library (>10k tracks). But there is hope. I’ve found an excellent media management app called Media Monkey for PC that not only manages our very large library, but also streams directly to the network connected Sonos devices. No need to use the USELESS Sonos apps on either PC or Android. And bonus, there is a companion app for Android that that allows remote control of the MM server running in the office. REDEMPTION!
So, if you have not embraced the streaming only ecosystem, and want to use your Sonos system to listen to your self-owned, self-controlled, self-managed, old-man-shaking-stick-at-cloud music library I recommend giving Media Monkey a serious look.
