garym wrote: > yes, Sonos has 65,000 limit (and could be even lower depending on the > number/length of tags). There are also some issues with album art over > a certain size. I bought a SONOS just to see what I thought (and as a > backup for easily streaming internet radio, siriusXM, etc. should > mysb.com disappear. Sonos is perfectly fine. But after using > Squeezeboxes and LMS all these years, it is amazing how "basic" it is in > terms of options regarding managing your music library. I've not used it > much with my music library (mine is too big > 80k). I just added a small > library to play with it. Sonos dealing with music library leaves a lot > to be desired if used to LMS. The discussion on this forum about ways > to search for music (album artist vs artist vs track artist, tags with > multiple fields, etc. etc.) would be quite funny at SONOS forums, as the > SONOS tag handling is very, very basic. Probably seems fine if one was > never used to anything else. And there's no way to backup or save > playlists. They reside on the SONOS players themselves and if one ever > does a factory reset, they are lost with no option for "downloading" the > playlists. > > Another odd thing to me, is that I use my BOOM and Radios as bedside > radios. Nothing in the SONOS line is equivalent. Every player requires > the use of a separate controller (e.g., smart phone with app). There is > nothing with physical controls or a screen that reports info. When I > wake at 5:00am and want to turn on internet radio via my bedside BOOM to > play via headphones (to not wake my wife), I simply push a button and > get to the station I want. With a SONOS, I'd have to have my smart phone > by the bed, pick it up, turn it on (and the light would likely bother my > wife), then control things via the smart phone. > > p.s. Don't take these remarks as knocking SONOS. Seems fine for doing > what it does. And it appears that many of the forum regulars come from > the point of view that most users now and in the future only care about > streaming music from services rather than their own libraries. (They're > probably right of course; but for old school guys like me, I want my OWN > music library). > > From reading the forums there a couple of months, it seems that it is > similar to Squeezeboxes. If they work in one's local network, it just > works. If it doesn't, there are all sorts of issues (routers, switches, > network storms created by mulitple wired SONOS devices (an odd problem > caused by the interaction of SonosNet with LAN that doesn't affect > squeezeboxes). And users have the same sort of complaints about SPOTIFY > options in SONOS not being as good as the native, web spotify app, > certain services being down too much (spotify), lack of access to other > services due to lack of cooperation with SONOS, etc. That is, the same > sort of things we squeezebox users complain about. > > And overall, I say that most problems people report at the Sonos forums > are really related to modem/router/LAN issues (and not Sonos), just like > most problems people report with Squeezeboxes over the years have been > related to modem/router/LAN issues!
Excellent post, thanks. kidstypike 1x SB3 - 1x Boom - 1x (Squeezebox) Radio - 2x Touch - 1x piCorePlayer ------------------------------------------------------------------------ kidstypike's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=10436 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=101683 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
