Switching from Squeezebox to Sonos

Yes, I suppose that should work if and when the time comes. It may not be as stable as the wired to line in connection, but seeing that the two devices will be with a few feet of each other, that should not be a problem.

This topic takes me back a decade! I used to own a Squeezebox Duet that fed into my Marantz receiver and a Radio in the kitchen. The Radio was very good, but the Duet was a disaster. Always losing connecting between the base and the remote. Final straw was the inability of the system to get both devices (Duet in the living and Radio in the kitchen) to sync properly.

Big advantage of the system (when it worked) was that I could play my mp3-collection without being limited by to 65k max. When Logitech abandoned Squeezebox and I got a new internet capable Marantz I sold my Squeezebox devices, only to succeed in syncing music in the living and and the kitchen when I replaced the Marantz with Sonos.

I appreciate that synching is important to many.  

Yes, synching wasn't brilliant but now there's grouping plugin which works well. 

In my case, sync is pointless given the time it takes to move between rooms.  Just as easy to stream same content on different players with a minimal gap between them. 

The biggest plus for me in the latest incarnations of LMS hosted on a raspberry pi is the on board Bluetooth transmission to headphones. 

I too haven't seen the value of sync in different rooms. Where I do see and get tremendous value from it though is in my open plan central space in an apartment, that serves for living/dining/kitchen and adjacent patio, where one set of speakers won’t suffice, when at times the entire space is to be filled with the same music which can only be done via zones in perfect sync. But Echo does this just as well as Sonos does, I have found, with Show units also showing the same album art in each served zone in this space. 

That's useful info.  The one thing which really irritates me about the Show is that volume can only change in whole units.  5 is too low and 6 too lound!  

That is true, but if the on unit buttons are used to change the volume, the changes are much more gradual than via voice command to select a volume level or to change the existing one.

Happy New Year all, hope all is good in your respective lands…

So this article has effectively kicked Google products for my needs into touch?  Pity, they looked a cheaper solution to my needs.

https://www.thurrott.com/google/261035/with-defeat-to-sonos-google-to-remove-smart-speaker-functionality

So I’m back to the Sonos Beam Gen 2 for the conservatory and Roams for everywhere else and a cheap alarm clock as the Roams don’t have a display of the time and alarm settings?

My cat serves as my alarm clock, but I do use a first gen Lenovo Smart Clock on my nightstand.  As it supports ChromeCast, can be played to from LMS (using the ChromeCast plugin) via the Material Skin (or any other LMS client), the Google Home app, any streaming app that supports ChromeCast (pretty much all of them), or via voice command.  Touchscreen, voice control, display.  $50.  Does the job.

https://www.bestbuy.com/site/lenovo-smart-clock-2-heather-grey/6485800.p?skuId=6485800

Wish the $ Price translated at the standard rate to £

Still not too bad a price in the UK compared to Sonos.

So this too can look like a player to LMS and I can set LMS alarms that fade in a random track from music on my server?

Do I get to see both current time and the alarm time like the SB classic?

Assume I turn off alarm using the touchscreen of the Lenovo?

I don’t use alarms, but it looks like you can use it with Routines in the Google Home app for much more than just alarms, and the simpler LMS alarms also appear to be available for it.