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Sonos CEO behind disastrous app exits with $1.9 million severance
(arstechnica.com)
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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.
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.
If you use home assistant take a look at music assistant, it solves a lot of these issues for free.
I wasn't able to get anything Google to work with Sonos. I originally had Spotify but cancelled when I couldn't afford a bunch of subscriptions, and switched to my local stores music - which Google also refused to cast easily.
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
Have a look at mDNS. It's very often the issue here.