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.
Golden parachute successfully deployed.
$1.8M is pretty small as golden parachutes go. Was probably the smallest amount allowed under his employment contract which avoids a lawsuit.
To paraphrase OP’s body text, if I did a shitty job I wouldn’t be receiving $1.9M checks in the mail.
i don’t know if any of you lot have experienced the sonos app firsthand, but let me tell you that it is worse than you could possibly imagine. it takes ages to open, has a million buttons, and pretty much all of them are useless. it has a play/pause bar on the bottom of the app that does not go away. if you want to change your speaker settings, that’s hidden away in a menu (within the app) called “system settings”. why would they call it that?
the app makes you type in the wifi password when pairing a new speaker, even if that speaker has the ethernet cable plugged in. the app also doesn’t support certain wifi passwords so i had to change my wifi password before connecting my speaker.
The worst thing they’ve ever done is remove functionality from the desktop app and have it exclusively in their mobile app.
I love the idea of Sonos. Being able to have whole house audio without having to run a shit load of cabling would be a dream come true, except they do it so badly it is often a nightmare.
- 2015: There’s an app for that! 😮📱
- 2025: There’s an app for that… 😞🔫
I have an easier time using my Home Assistant dashboard to control my Sonos devices rather than the native app. Takes forever to load in Sonos but with HA, it’s near instant.
Like I’m a programming dullard but they had to go out of their way to filter out allowable WiFi key characters? I don’t see why they’d even bother…?
maybe they were afraid of bobby tables
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.
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.
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.
That very much sounds like a network problem.
Are both hosts in the same subnet?
Yeah. I did see in the docs that there can be issues with Unifi networks, which I have, or with special setups but I did try a few of the settings it mentioned with no luck.
The only thing “special” with my network is I’m using a 10.x.x.x/8 subnet mask. The part that confuses me is the speakers are added with no issue.
I am using the same network - that’s no problem
I have to ask the stupid question but are they in pause? What if you hit the button on top?
When I select the speaker in Music Assistant and play a song, the player shows up with all of the details but it’s just paused.
When I press the play button in MA, nothing happens. Not even an error.
If I press play on the speaker, the last song that was playing before I selected a song in MA starts playing. The player will show my selected track as playing but it’s the previous song coming out of the speaker. I can pause the song from MA but I cannot resume. If I resume it from the speaker, the MA player updates to the song that was previously playing and then I cannot control the speaker from MA.
That makes it useless. I hope you figure it out
Damn, I’m in the wrong business. Been making really bad decisions for free
The Peter Principle in practice. A Quibi exec is taking over for him, I shit you not.
I feel like they couldn’t make things much worse apart from just making the app say, “Lol, fuck you,” every time you tried to do anything.
It’s so bad, I’ve mulled just trashing the one speaker I have that I didn’t even pay for, just to move to something better.
I just grabbed the old app from The Aurora store and told my speakers not to update their firmware.
I’m using my kitchen S5 exclusively in aux mode with a spare phone which runs the Malopieds fork of Innertune. It’s the perfect music kiosk / jukebox and I never have to touch their apps (unless I change up my network).
Y’all are the best. Will have to try these ideas later
no u
Hope it works out for you tho. Hit us up if you need a hand.
Most of what I use the speakers for (other than surround on the TV) is automatically starting lullabies from Navidrome for my kids at bedtime.
The new app broke the hell out of that whole chain.
Now I’m extra mad because their new app is messing with sleepy time for the bebis 😠
fuck those guys. Glad you gave a workaround in place.
Y’all have the business comprehension of a 6th grader. Lemmy thinks the CEO is the manager at their fast food job.
The CEO is hired, and fired, by the board of directors. Sometimes they’re hired to do unpopular shit, and take the blame. Sometimes the board insists they do stupid shit, and take the blame if it doesn’t work.
If you want to jump off that plane without negotiating a parachute? Go for it.
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