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For almost the first time, 2 days ago, my Sonos app could not find any of my Play1 speakers. It's great when you're about to feed the cats and think "let me thr
by rconti 7y ago
For almost the first time, 2 days ago, my Sonos app could not find any of my Play1 speakers. It's great when you're about to feed the cats and think "let me throw on some music" and then spend 10 minutes troubleshooting something that should Just Work.
I ran around the house unplugging speakers, some of which are really inconvenient to do, just to reboot a bunch of them. I think what happened is the master (of course, you have no way of knowing which is the master) got wedged, and once i rebooted THAT one, a new master was selected, and all the rest fell into line.
Okay, fine.
But then it happened again yesterday.
And the speakers kept stuttering for the first 10 seconds of every new song, streaming from Spotify. On a gigabit FTTH connection with all ubiquiti APs that work flawlessly for every other client.
My other huge Sonos frustration was their choice to disable streaming-from-phone. To be fair, the feature was an absolute pile of gutter trash; it couldn't tolerate any latency whatsoever, so if you so much as moved your phone around the house during a podcast, it would drop the podcast and move to the next one, and half the time the scrubber didn't work so you had to start over from the beginning of a 2 hour podcast, etc. Their solution to this removed feature was to buy their AirPlay equipped Play1. Which is fine, but I already have all the Play1s I need. In theory, you only need to buy ONE of the new devices, but I guess that means that one's always the master? Or you have to do something to make SURE that one's always the master? I just don't really trust their model enough to throw more money at the problem and hope it solves it.
I probably got burned more than most because I really only bought the Play1s a year or two before they dropped this feature; I think that particular product was quite long in the tooth and it was pretty bad timing, but it left a bad taste in my mouth.