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Re:Sonos's “recycle mode” intentionally bricks devices so th... by jacquesm on Friday December 27, 2019 @10:01PM (#21896750)
And that's how it should have been.
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Re:Sonos's “recycle mode” intentionally bricks devices so th... by o-__-o on Saturday December 28, 2019 @01:53AM (#21897570)
Let’s make an open source Sonos clone and call it Fauxnos. It can be powered by a raspberry pi integrated into a speaker running mpd.

Who wants to join my git repo?

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Re:Sonos's “recycle mode” intentionally bricks devices so th... by wiml on Saturday December 28, 2019 @04:55AM (#21898112)
I've been running that system for a few years (with control via MALP or ncmpc mostly). Works pretty well.
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Re:Sonos's “recycle mode” intentionally bricks devices so th... by o-__-o on Saturday December 28, 2019 @11:50AM (#21899911)
do you have a keybase.io ID? I’m going to kick this off as my first 2020 project
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Re:Sonos's “recycle mode” intentionally bricks devices so th... by hultner on Saturday December 28, 2019 @06:21PM (#21902535)
I’ve been doing it with ROAP, RTSP & MPD on a rPI for the past ≈5 years, I call it Cantus.
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