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Nothing in tech will improve until there are actual consequences for people like this. Serial failures just hop from job to job. ruining products and lives along the way.
We're going to renovate our kitchen in a few months and I plan to install a pair of speakers in the roof and hook them up to a Raspberry Pi with a Hifiberry amp and the HifiberryOS.
I'm sure there will be issues but at least I'll be free of Sonos.
>Despite this seismic shift at the top, Sonos’ future product pipeline remains “full steam ahead,” Pategas told me. The company’s next major new product is rumored to be a streaming video player, which would pit it against the likes of Apple, Roku, Amazon, and Google in the living room. Dumb move, you're weaker than ever. You need to slow down. Trying to signal it this way gives no confidence. I'll take my $7500 and…
I'm worried in the long run my sonos players won't be supported because (a) the company burned all their money pursuing bad spend (b) company goes belly up (c) they decide it isn't worth maintaining the older speakers since they don't drive revenue but have to pay for maintenance.
My system has only been usable thanks to the efforts of a random German that wrote Sonophone; one guy outperforming a whole company. And Sonophone is very much "OK" in the sense it works, but it's got the strangest UI. This CEO, and his associated product management organisation, has completely destroyed all the goodwill that used to exist around Sonos, especially with respect to their ability to function almost enti…
Sonos hardware is the stuff I see at thrift stores for ~$8 and won't even bother with. When you're as user hostile as they are you end up in landfills. Wish somebody would figure out how to unlock them and convert them into general purpose music streaming systems.
It is probably easier to use RaspberryPi.
So having done both of these two systems each for several years, I can strongly recommend Sonos.
Sonos 5's (gen2) still sell for $4-500 used where I am. Which is astonishing for a product that is many years old by now and is $6-750 new. I wouldn't exactly say that's landfill. The Ikea bookshelf thing is also great and costs very little. Sound isn't comparable to the Five though. If you see a Sonos speaker for $8 in a thrift store, it's either broken or you should buy it and sell it on ebay.
https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2000/04/06/things-you-should-...
It's such a TEMPTING rule to violate...
The amazing part was how BAD it went, supposedly engineers were raising every red flag possible that it wasn't ready and still they did it.
Considering how bad it was I can't imagine having any faith in anyone up the chain of command having the power, or intelligence to do the right thing at this point it was such a bizarre failure.
Sonos hardware is the stuff I see at thrift stores for ~$8 and won't even bother with. When you're as user hostile as they are you end up in landfills. Wish somebody would figure out how to unlock them and convert them into general purpose music streaming systems.