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Sonos CEO apologizes for disastrous rollout of new app (www.theverge.com)
submitted 3 months ago by Carighan@lemmy.world to c/technology@lemmy.world
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I mean, he's not wrong that the app wasn't ready. Which begs the question why they didn't un-roll-it-out. >.>

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[–] aniki@lemmy.zip 34 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (2 children)

Audio is one of the easiest if not THE easiest to do wirelessly. Why ANYONE would use this proprietary bullshit is beyond me. I'm looking at my girlfriends Sonos that we never use anymore once I put a shitty sound-bar on the theater TV which sounds better, and we can chromecast anything we want to it or just flip to the HTPC and use it like a computer.

Eat billionaires. Fuck corporations. Open. Source. Everything!

[–] seang96@spgrn.com 12 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Isn't Chromecast proprietary though?

[–] aniki@lemmy.zip 2 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (3 children)
[–] seang96@spgrn.com 8 points 3 months ago

Looks like Google cast is the protocol and it's proprietary, while they offer a SDK, it does not appear to be open source. There is an open source alternative though. https://github.com/MayaPosch/NymphCast/

[–] douglasg14b@lemmy.world 5 points 3 months ago (1 children)

So.... Yes?

[–] chiisana@lemmy.chiisana.net 2 points 3 months ago

Sonos’s protocol is also same; if people want to develop on their platform using the protocol it is documented and there are open source solutions:

https://developer.sonos.com/s/?language=en_US

https://github.com/avantrec/soco-cli