Purely speculative, but I think the Sonos user profile is rather different to LMS.
Seems to divide between youngsters with smartphones (and increasingly Sonos is reducing access to only the latest 'shiny' new models) anf older users who seem to often have 'more money than sense' (having 'invested' over 10000 in speakers). Sonos seems popular in Scandinavia. Sonos control is largely limited to smartphones - there is no web-interface, and no linux controller. There is hardly any community development of programs, etc. and users are almost utterly dependent on Sonos fixing or at least not breaking working systems with so-called updates. The community forum can turn really fractious very quickly if anyone questions the value of some recent 'improvements'. And once a system update has taken place, there's no way to revert. My Sonos system is reduced to a Beam soundbar, and 2 speakers integrated into LMS using the upnpbridge plugin. The only plus in my book is that the speakers do sound good, but no longer such a plus compared to the Roberts S series or Libratone Zipps. LMS is light-years ahead of Sonos, and almost every other sound system. (For what it's worth my favourite LMS setup is a chromecast audio (gen 1 - 25 usd) linked to Avantree long-distance BT transmitter (40 usd) and a set of decent headphones - your choice!). LMS server: Pi Zero Amp: Denon PMA-50 Players/Speakers: Touch, Logitech Radios, Sonos Play 1s & Beam, Libratone Zipp, GGMM E2 & E3, Yamaha WXAD-010, Loewe Airspeaker, Google Home Mini, Pioneer WX-SMA1, Roberts S1, O2 Joggler, Cisco Joggler Brexit = ∞ stupidity ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------------------------------------------ castalla's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=15624 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=111285 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
