Hi folks!

I have a sonos system from my pre self hosting days and it’s much too expensive to exchange for something else atm.

Since today, I can’t use my music subscriptions anymore and I don’t have any music stored locally. Reason is a giant service outage at sonos.

I know, it’s the classic argument for cutting the cord. My question now is, how would you do it? Just pirate music since I have a subscription and am entitled to listen to music?

Btw. the issue is with sonos cloud services so the music services are available everywhere but in sonos. If I had a way to stream music from apple or amazon in my homenetwork, sonos should be able to pick it up.

Also, what do people do with sonos products? Do they get jailbroken/rooted or is that not a thing?

Thanks for reading. Have a good one.

  • Strit@lemmy.linuxuserspace.showEnglish
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    10 months ago

    If you have no local music and no physical music media, you are pretty much out of luck.

    I mean, when you subscribe to services you understand there is the possibility that the service might go unavailable at some point. Some times it’s just temporary, but others are permanent (like Google Stadia).

    I make a habit out of not relying on streaming services. If I really like something, music or video, I buy the physical disk.

    Sorry, I don’t have an answer or solution for you.

    I rip my physical media and put it on my Jellyfin server, so I can stream it where ever I am.

    • Haui@discuss.tchncs.deOPEnglish
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      10 months ago

      Thanks for answering. I do the same with my blu rays and dvds but I haven’t had local music for years so I will have to look at that.

      My problem also is that not apple music is down but sonos, which is not a subscription service but physical hardware that I have bought. The old „kill switch“ problem so to speak.

      I‘ll look into finding a solution that makes me able to go around online obligation.

      Have a good day. :)

  • LiveLM@lemmy.zipEnglish
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    10 months ago

    Just pirate music since I have a subscription and am entitled to listen to music?

    Yup.
    You can get DRM-Free music from Bandcamp and I know some artists also offer DRM-Free purchases on their Merch Stores if you’d rather properly buy your music.