Below is the text from a wired.com article about the new Sonos app that shows it is bad for sighted users as well. the link to the original is at the end.
Many People Do Not Like the New Sonos App Sonos launched a new version of its app this week, altering the software experience that tens of millions of users rely on to control the company's premium home wireless home speaker systems. Turns out, people really hate it! The response from users on Reddit, on audio forums, and on social media has been almost total condemnation since the app experience switched over on May 7. Users on the dedicated r/sonos subreddit are particularly peeved about it, expressing frustration at all manner of problems. The quickest way to see the scores of complaints is to visit the megathread the users in the community started to catalog all the problems they're experiencing. Many features that had long been a part of the Sonos app are simply missing in the update. Features such as the ability to set sleep timers and alarms, set the speakers at a precise volume level, add songs to the end of a queue, manage Wi-Fi connectivity, and add new speakers are missing or broken, according to the complaints. Users are also reporting that the revamped search engine in the app often can't search a connected local library running on a networked computer or a network-attached storage drive-they way many of Sonos' most loyal users listen to their large private music libraries. Some streaming services are partially or completely broken for some users too, like TuneIn and LivePhish+. Worse, the new app is not as accessible as the previous version, with one Reddit user calling it "an accessibility disaster." The user, Rude-kangaroo6608, writes: "As a blind guy, I now have a system that I can hardly use." Sonos has held firm on its decision, telling The Verge that changing so much inside the app "took courage"-a phrase that fans of headphone jacks on iPhones may be familiar with. In a statement to The Verge, Sonos says it plans to slowly add many of those ditched features back into its new app in the coming months. We should note that the changes were only pushed as an update to the S2 version of the app. Sonos has two apps: one called S1 that can control legacy hardware like Zone Players and first-gen Amps as well as the new hardware; and the more feature-rich S2 app that controls just the more recent Sonos speakers. Those using the S1 controller will need to follow Sonos' instructions if they want to try the new experience. Original article: https://www.wired.com/story/people-do-not-like-the-new-sonos-app/ Richard, USA "It's no great honor to be blind, but it's more than a nuisance and less than a disaster. Either you're going to fight like hell when your sight fails or you're going to stand on the sidelines for the rest of your life." -- Dr. Margaret Rockwell Phanstiehl Founder of Audio Description (1932-2009) My web site: <https://www.turner42.com> https://www.turner42.com -- The following information is important for all members of the V iPhone list. If you have any questions or concerns about the running of this list, or if you feel that a member's post is inappropriate, please contact the owners or moderators directly rather than posting on the list itself. Your V iPhone list moderator is Mark Taylor. Mark can be reached at: [email protected]. Your list owner is Cara Quinn - you can reach Cara at [email protected] The archives for this list can be searched at: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "VIPhone" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/viphone/02a101daa3b0%24e6aefc10%24b40cf430%24%40comcast.net.
