Sonos 5.3 Update ↦
Löblich, löblich – Sonos gibt unumwunden zu:
… we also heard from many of you that we made some things worse. It became more difficult to move music between rooms, the Sonos app for tablets did not make good use of the screen size, and some of the smaller features you loved in the previous app were not available (e.g. the track progression bar).
Kann ich unterschreiben und freue mich daher auf das angekündigte Update 5.3, welches diese Neuerungen bzw. Reparaturen bringt:
- A faster way to manage all the rooms in your home: Effortlessly move your music around your home with a more accessible rooms menu, now available by tapping the top of any screen in the Sonos app.
- Improvements to the tablet app: New dedicated screens for what’s playing and music discovery on iOS and Android tablets makes toggling between screens more intuitive.
- Quickly switch between screens: Using your phone, swipe down from the now playing screen to go back to browse your music. Then swipe from left to right to show all your music sources.
- Want to hear that verse again? The track progression bar is back in your now playing screen, just below the album art. Drag it to whatever point in the song you want to play.
- Easier to mix it up: With Crossfade, blending your tracks is simple from within the info menu, now more prominently placed alongside the sleep timer. From the now playing screen, press the info button to access.
Für Nutzer der Android App gibt es diese Features schon jetzt als Beta. Alle iOS-User müssen sich noch gedulden.
Aber noch viel spannender finde ich die Idee, dass SONOS dritten Musik-App-Anbietern eine API anbietet, damit diese direkt mit den SONOS Boxen kommunizieren können. Denn bei aller Liebe für die native SONOS App: Die Bedienung der Apps der aktuellen Streaming-Anbieter, wie Rdio, Spotify und Beats Music geht doch etwas leichter von der Hand. Ausnahme: man hat eine lokal gepflegte Sammlung mit (legal) heruntergeladener Musik.