Comment on The Sound Of Failure At Sonos
QuarterSwede@lemmy.world 2 months ago
I’m the complete opposite of its users apparently. I never use the Sonos app to play music (it’s been crap for that before 2.0). I just airplay through iOS’s system and enjoy its multi-room audio in bliss. I didn’t buy a Sonos system to integrate other Sonos device with it. I bought it to integrate with other Airplay devices and be my living room sneaker surround setup (an Arc+sub gen 3+lamp Symfonisks). Again, the app has always sucked compared to Airplay 2.
I’m the opposite too, for a different reason to you. I have Sonos home theatre (soundbar, sub, rear speakers) and Chromecast with Google TV hooked up to the TV. I control music on a pixel phone or pixel tablet through the Chromecast, Sonos kinda just hangs off on the edge of my ecosystem and I don’t think about it. I maybe use the app a few times a year.
But I get why if you just have a few speakers it would be a pain to use the app.
barkingspiders@infosec.pub 2 months ago
Same, I stream using the airplay protocol from my Lyrion Music Server and haven’t had to touch their app since they arrived. If they fuck with that though so help me god I will write the nastiest things about them on the internets.