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?
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.
I would add to this that you should at least look for a direct sale method before flying the black flag. On the rare occasion I find a new artist that I like a lot, I check to see if they have their own website where I can buy mp3s/flac. They often do (which I realize may just be down to the types of music I listen to) and I can purchase there and give them well deserved cash that doesn’t go to scumbag recording label executives. Otherwise it’s yt-dlp or Lidarr.
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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.
I would add to this that you should at least look for a direct sale method before flying the black flag. On the rare occasion I find a new artist that I like a lot, I check to see if they have their own website where I can buy mp3s/flac. They often do (which I realize may just be down to the types of music I listen to) and I can purchase there and give them well deserved cash that doesn’t go to scumbag recording label executives. Otherwise it’s yt-dlp or Lidarr.
Thanks for letting me know! I’ll check it out.