Contributor II

Did you regret the Sonos you went for? Play3/5 owners

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We recently made a Play:3 our first Sonos purchase, and I like it. A lot. The fact that my wife can use the app without me having to help is a massive plus as well!

But, the room we put it in is a large one, and my original plan was to pair a couple of 3's eventually. But after listening to a Play:5 I've ordered one to test that out - I think two in that room would be overkill, but I'll be really interested to see how it plays out vs a Play:3 pair in stereo.

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frugalpenguinAuthor

Contributor II

Thanks - I found a post describing setting everything to an m3u playlist to try and work around it.

I just find it somewhat staggering that such a limit exists.Oh well.

Stanley_4

Grand Maestro

Sonos has a legacy problem, when they first came out hardware was very expensive and they had to pick fairly low end bits to keep the total price down to a level that would sell. Now they have increased the hardware bits capabilities a great deal but are faced with the lingering older gear's limitations.

They are doing a lot to work around this with tweaks like handing off music library indexing to the most capable unit but some limits can't be worked around without dropping support for the older hardware. See the CR-100 topics for how ugly that turns.

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Kumar

Given that Sonos believes that less than 10% of present user base listening - a number that is also declining - is to NAS as opposed to internet radio/services, and given the Sonos credo of backward compatibility to the extent practical, I doubt there will be anything coming from Sonos to fix this issue. Even when much of the use was NAS based, the 65000 track limit affected only a small minority.

Stanley_4

Grand Maestro

Aside from a few albums not available elsewhere I'm finding myself listening to Napster over my home music library too so seeing others following the same path isn't surprising.

If there is no work-around then it is a tough call for Sonos they have to count the number of angry ZP users that would be bitten by having their units bricked versus the number of folks showing signs of having issues with the 65K limit and deciding who is out of luck. I'd bet the 65K folks are going to, no having to issue expensive rebates for defunct ZPs is probably the deciding factor.

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