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Sonos CEO behind disastrous app exits with $1.9 million severance (arstechnica.com)
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Spence will receive a cash severance of $1,875,000, per SEC filings. He will also get $7,500 per month and serve as a Sonos board advisor until June, and his unvested shares will vest.

If I was this bad at my job, I'd be shitcanned with no compensation. It's pretty cool how we reward failure at the highest levels.

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[-] philpo@feddit.org 30 points 2 months ago

Just as a way to soothe the outrage about this POS of an app: A fair share of the problem can be minimised by using Home Assistant and Music Assistant to control the Sonos devices. This way you very rarely need to actually use the app anymore.

Which is good because it's indeed shit.

[-] Drathro@dormi.zone 5 points 2 months ago

Literally just started doing this last week. I did NOT expect it to work so much better than the name-brand app for such a "closed system" as Sonos.

[-] Undearius@lemmy.ca 4 points 2 months ago

I haven't had any luck with Music Assistant and my Sonos speakers. :(

I can add and select the speakers, select a track, everything seems to work right up to the point of actually playing music. It just stays paused and never switches to playing, no errors either.

[-] Obituarykidney@lemmy.world 2 points 2 months ago

When they removed the ability to listen to my local music library from the app I started looking for alternatives. Seemingly perfectly timed for the app to shit itself.

I found BubbleUPnP. It can cast to all of my Sonos and my Google assistant speaker with zero issues and can play from Plex, my phone's local library, and my NAS. Highly recommend. Three free version is usable but paid is only $7 and I no longer need the Sonos app.

[-] prettybunnys@sh.itjust.works 2 points 2 months ago

I’ve had my Sonos sound bar controlled by HomeKit since the day I bought it and have never needed to fuck with their app.

I guess I got lucky?

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