https://lyrion.org/Logitech Media Server renamed and put together some easier documentation, from the look of it!Worth a look if you are into playing your own collection of files... since even if you are just streaming from the cloud to your player(s), you need your server to be on.Everyone uses the Material skin and not the ugliness displayed on the homepage.
― maf you one two (maffew12), Thursday, 9 May 2024 22:16 (one month ago) link
thanks, both looks like promising options from a quick look!
― scanner darkly, Thursday, 9 May 2024 23:21 (one month ago) link
new wiim ultra looks very impressive -
https://www.blog.wiimhome.com/post/unveiling-wiim-ultra-the-digital-hub-for-your-music
― woof, Friday, 10 May 2024 10:04 (one month ago) link
all these years and that $35 little Google Chromecast audio is still working for me
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Friday, 10 May 2024 12:51 (one month ago) link
they don't make 'em like that any more!
forgot to turn off auto update, so let's see if it's fixed my main and critical gripe of saying it can't find any speakers when you open the app... and that's a nope.
reading about the wiim and now starting to regret the money i have punted sonos' way.
― ledge, Friday, 10 May 2024 12:56 (one month ago) link
the missing "add to queue" option is very strange. a page says it's coming back in a future update to this update, but how can you push a version without it? I also miss the volume numbers for precisely setting the volume of sleep noise or music in the kids' room. Suppose I mostly use the spotify app anyhow.
― 145 feet up in a Jeffrey Pine (Sufjan Grafton), Friday, 10 May 2024 14:52 (one month ago) link
there's some good discussion of alternatives to Sonos on this thread:
Maintaining a Digital Music Collection
― Brad C., Friday, 10 May 2024 15:14 (one month ago) link
There’s an option for “Save to Sonos Favorites” (for a playlist, track, or album); and when you try it, it just says “Something went wrong. Try again.”(??)
― OG Rizzler (morrisp), Friday, 10 May 2024 15:26 (one month ago) link
I hear you - the trigger for rebuilding was wanting to bring my vinyl back to life and the sonos sunk cost thing pulled me towards a sonos amp or sonos port for a bit of my research but nah - they're still very respectable streaming speakers to have around the house but I'm happier out.
― woof, Friday, 10 May 2024 15:36 (one month ago) link
wow.the previous app would eventually pick up the speakers if you left it on for a bit or restarted a few times. the new one doesn't, and can't find any products if I try and set up a new system.
― ledge, Friday, 10 May 2024 17:13 (one month ago) link
it's found them now. then loses and finds them again every time I reopen.
― ledge, Friday, 10 May 2024 20:50 (one month ago) link
the sonos experience in a nutshell
― LaMDA barry-stanners (||||||||), Friday, 10 May 2024 20:54 (one month ago) link
just had a message from a fellow Sonos user via Twitter :
"Don’t upgrade to the new Sonos app!Nothing works any more"
hope others here are not suffering as badly as this guy is ..
― mark e, Wednesday, 15 May 2024 17:48 (three weeks ago) link
good god the new app is utter dogshit. how could they make something already quite bad worse
― LaMDA barry-stanners (||||||||), Saturday, 18 May 2024 09:54 (three weeks ago) link
it seems i was forced to update to the new sonos app later than most people were, but i've finally been forced to update and, good god, this is by far the biggest fuck-you sonos has ever fucked me with (and there was a lot of comopetition).
in addition to everything else that's bonkers about this update, am i missing something or can i no longer create a playlist?
― fact checking cuz, Friday, 31 May 2024 19:42 (one week ago) link
yeah, i have heard a lot from my friend re how bad this has been.the sonos forums are just full of chaos and anger.
― mark e, Friday, 31 May 2024 19:47 (one week ago) link
i refused to update and at some point it told me my library wasn't available anymore and that i needed to update to fix thati said fuck that and just listened to radio and bandcamp - and now the library is magically back
― scanner darkly, Saturday, 1 June 2024 02:53 (one week ago) link