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I mean, he’s not wrong that the app wasn’t ready. Which begs the question why they didn’t un-roll-it-out. >.>
Sonos speakers sound great but their app was/is/forever will be hot garbage.
You may want to reevaluate your views. For the price there always were much better sounding options. Their main selling point is supposed to be convenience, but with all the software glitches it does not seem like they have it anymore.
Hey why don’t we lay off the production people then claim we made a bunch of profit?
Ridiculous pay package pleeze.
Haven’t they been trying to roll out their new app for like 4 years now?
10$ food coupons when?
Pffft food coupons. It’s $5 off the purchase of your next device within 15 days of issue.
Such a courageous move.
IoT gonna IoT
Why can’t they just fix the simple bug of having to open the app ,close it down, then reopen it just to connect to your setup? A simple ‘wait’ line of code would do wonders.
Too little, too late. For first month the app was unusable. It took forever to play the music and when it finally got played the missing features made the experience at best mediocre
I’m not going to stick with Sonos. I have already started lookingfosr a replacement. Audio Pro looks pretty good.
Same. For me the final straw was when it started desynchronising from actual progress when playing podcasts, which means every time I pause and resume I’m somewhere else I the episode.
I just want queue management back again 😭
Crowdstrike CEO: Did it crash the phone?
Here’s a $10 Ubereats coupon.
Wait they made an even worse one?
Yep. It’s impressive, tbh.
It’s a company that was one of the first to get into “smart xyz” at all, scored big, and since then has shown that they have absolutely not a single clue how to do smart home appliances.
I thought I lost my Sonos integration with my music source. In fact it was just an update to the app and I don’t know how to navigate that… or maybe the new app just removed the integration
Audio is one of the easiest if not THE easiest to do wirelessly. Why ANYONE would use this proprietary bullshit is beyond me. I’m looking at my girlfriends Sonos that we never use anymore once I put a shitty sound-bar on the theater TV which sounds better, and we can chromecast anything we want to it or just flip to the HTPC and use it like a computer.
Eat billionaires. Fuck corporations. Open. Source. Everything!
Isn’t Chromecast proprietary though?
Looks like Google cast is the protocol and it’s proprietary, while they offer a SDK, it does not appear to be open source. There is an open source alternative though. https://github.com/MayaPosch/NymphCast/
So… Yes?
Sonos’s protocol is also same; if people want to develop on their platform using the protocol it is documented and there are open source solutions:
This is what happens when a digital rewrite is on the critical path of a physical product.
Physical product development is a behemoth. Manufacturing, certification, marketing, shipping, warehousing, contracts with retailers, etc. all add up to mean that, past a certain point in the project, the product is gonna launch whether the digital side is ready or not.
If the C-level/VP-level folks aren’t willing to tailor the product roadmap to allow for a safe rewrite effort, you’re pretty much guaranteed this outcome.
(Options are either keep the new product on the back burner until after the rewrite settles, or launch the product without IoT support at first. But you gotta plan for these up-front so you don’t mess up your product’s legal claims.)
As someone in the market for a new sound system - looking for recommendations for something wireless w/ Dolby Atmos. Any suggestions?
Sonos. Recent app troubles aside (it’s really not that bad, just kind of clunky for certain tasks), the longevity alone make them so worth it. Despite being essentially computers/smart home devices, they support 10+ year old devices in their latest app, older devices in their S1 Controller app, and the sound quality & setup ease is amazing.
Plus, they have pretty good Black Friday sales and make it easy to build piece by piece if pricing is too high. You can also used replaced pieces to build a sound system in another room.
Over ~3 years I started with a Beam, then bought a Sub and two Play:1s as rears. Bought an Arc, moved the Beam to the bedroom. Just recently I bought 2 Arc 300s as rears/upward firing Atmos speakers, and moved the Play:1s to the bedroom. Resale value stays high so if you have no use for a piece, you can sell it and get 50%-75% of what you paid out of it easily.
There are cheaper devices with better sound quality out there, but nobody else can compete on the whole package with Sonos.
I didn’t even know the app was updated before this post. I only start it when I add new devices, which is never.
You might check out wiim stuff. They seem to be the darling of budget streaming for the moment.
