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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    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.

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      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.

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      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.

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        15 days ago

        That very much sounds like a network problem.

        Are both hosts in the same subnet?

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          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.

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            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?

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              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.