{"id":27920,"date":"2020-01-22T16:19:28","date_gmt":"2020-01-22T21:19:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=27920"},"modified":"2020-01-24T15:08:46","modified_gmt":"2020-01-24T20:08:46","slug":"sonos-will-stop-providing-software-updates-for-its-oldest-products-in-may","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2020\/01\/22\/sonos-will-stop-providing-software-updates-for-its-oldest-products-in-may\/","title":{"rendered":"Sonos Will Stop Providing Software Updates for Its Oldest Products in May"},"content":{"rendered":"

Chris Welch<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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“Without new software updates, access to services and overall functionality of your sound system will eventually be disrupted, particularly as partners evolve their technology,” Sonos warned in a blog post today<\/a>. The company says customers can choose to either keep using these products after support ends — they should continue functioning in the near-term — or replace them with a modern Sonos product at a discount.<\/p>\n

[…]<\/p>\n

Sonos is again stressing that these products have been stretched to their absolute limit, noting that many of them — the oldest were introduced in 2006 — predate the iPhone and streaming music services altogether. Sonos has said it’s committed to providing software updates for five years after it last sold a device directly.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n

Apple tends to be better at stuff like this.<\/p>\n\n

Kirk McElhearn<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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It’s worth noting that there is a lot of ire among Sonos users. I follow a Facebook group, and there are a lot of people who bought devices just a year ago that are affected. I also heard from someone on Twitter who had hard-wired a bunch of Sonos stuff in a house, juts five years ago, and it will all be affected.<\/p>\n

[…]<\/p>\n

I have a bunch of Sonos stuff and I use it only with AirPlay, but the company still doesn’t support music libraries over 60,000 tracks (if you point the Sonos app at a folder containing your music files). Yet in practice, this number is much smaller. When I tried – about five years ago – it only managed to see about 40,000 tracks. This is because a lot of my music library is classical, and has a lot of metadata. The library size is limited by the amount of text that can be stored in a database, and with classical music, you can use fewer tracks because the metadata is often larger. Seriously.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n

See also: Omar<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n

Previously:<\/p>\n