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It would be nice to be able to dedupe a playlist. Is it possible?
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Not only has the POS CEO ruined a great company, he’s lost money for the shareholders and undermined the used market. At this point I have to assume he has intentionally devalued the company because a bigger corporation is entertaining a buyout and by driving down the value he will get a big kick back from the new buyers. Absolutely shameful example of “leadership”. Sonos shares slide as Morgan Stanley issues a double downgrade, slashes PT
My brother is over and we were reminiscing of the years when Sonos was a company that was awesome and special. I started talking about the efforts they used to put into their YouTube channel. Like the Rick Ruben interview, the sound testing videos and the various launch videos. I was truly bummed to see the “new” Sonos took it upon themselves to delete all the old videos. Seems like pretty unnecessary to delete the history of a company that some many people used to love. Anyone else have some old favourites that are now gone? The amp launch video really stands out in my mind right now. Just another example of how little this company cares about it’s last and it’s loyal users
The newest version of the app requires additional permissions, is bloated with ads, does not work offline, and enables sonos to sell my personal data.This is unacceptable.I’ve tried to roll back to 16.1, but this doesn’t work with my UPNP media Library.I’ve also tried to use play.sonos.com and login.sonos.com, but on all my devices it says “Screen size unsupported”.On my linux desktop I have noson and another unofficial controller.I’ve tried PlexAmp for android, but the streaming to devices is very buggyI need a solution that just works.
Dunno maybe Wirecutter should fix their network, reboot, get a new mesh system.I’m having no issues with the app, must be them. 🤣 But in all (not) seriousness this is very brave of them 🤣Will be interesting to see what they recommend when they finish redoing the article. Quote, emphasis mine: We are completely re-envisioning this guide and will no longer recommend the Sonos multiroom audio platform as the best overall choice. Please see our note at the top of the guide for more details.After careful consideration, we no longer recommend the Sonos multiroom audio platform as the best overall choice. Sonos recently rolled out a major update to its control app that had a ton of problems, leaving its customers with a much less intuitive experience than they had before. While the company is slowly addressing some of the major issues with the new app, this is not the first time Sonos has hurt customer trust through poorly executed changes.That said, Sonos still makes great speakers that
I am with all others that vented their dislike of the latest update(s), yet I am more worried looking into the WHY of this…imho: The write off of so many functions and features can only be to soon re-introduce them as 'new services' for an extra cost!!!Why else would any sane company otherwise create such chaos in a good working service?
Hi, I wanted to get information on using Sonos in the Uk and if it fits into the business music licensing category or are you still required to make additional licensing payments ?
https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/what-happened-sonos-app-technical-analysis-andy-pennell-wigwc/ What happened to the Sonos app? A technical analysis Andy PennellPrincipal Software Engineer at Xbox, Microsoft July 6, 2024On May 7th, 2024, Sonos, the successful home-audio company, released a new mobile app. This had been hyped in the press and was going to make product setup easier and greatly improve the user experience. However, when the app was actually released, it was, and somewhat remains, a disaster. As a certified Sonos fanboy/hacker/almost-employee I'm going to try and explain what happened, as best I can based on my reverse engineering skills, honed over the last decade and more of creating independent Sonos apps.How The "Old" App WorkedSonos speakers have been the Gold-standard UPnP device since their creation. I remember around 2005 the lobby to Microsoft Building 50, which was the home of the Windows Media Division at that time, was completely full of boxes of Sonos devices.
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Congratulations! You’ve finished the job. You have converted the 4 Sonos speakers that I derived so much satisfaction from into useless chunks of plastic.Amazing how you accomplished this despite having such an incompetent technical group. Or perhaps the marketers deserve the credits for taking down what was such a fine brand. Don’t worry. I’m sure you’ll all be able to find jobs at Boeing.Where you like me to return the junk. Its just taking up space at my home.
Well argued but measured article on the new app and Sonos leadership failure. https://www.forbes.com/sites/danpontefract/2024/08/24/the-sound-of-failure-at-sonos/
