The real kick in the nuts is that Sonos is quite handy if you’re looking for whole house audio. Or it used to be.
Decent speakers that run over WiFi and don’t require knocking holes in walls. Could stream from your NAS, from a line in jack from a tv, or bridge your “real” stereo to your sonos products.
But they keep breaking all the things one by one. At this point I’m just waiting for someone to hack the speakers so I can use them with a foss alternative.
I think it would be fun to DIY this
Yeah I bet you could do this with a couple SBCs
Edit: and speakers, ofc
I’m glad I am on their older version. Their recent update was a shit show. They removed: sleep timer, queue management, access to music on a NAS… you know, all things I bought the product for. And then they’re announcing adding them back like it’s a good thing they’re doing. “We listened…!”
And they tried some BS about how brave it was of them to break all of it.
Need to be brave, move fast and break thing
Break production database
Company go bankrupt
Hmm, I still have access to my NAS music while using the new Sonos app. I never lost access to it afaik.
I don’t think they are just hinting about selling user data. They specifically changed their terms of service to allow it. They /are/ going to do it.
At this point the stock software on devices can not be trusted
