School me on SONOS and other home streaming systems

reading about the wiim and now starting to regret the money i have punted sonos' way.

I hear you - the trigger for rebuilding was wanting to bring my vinyl back to life and the sonos sunk cost thing pulled me towards a sonos amp or sonos port for a bit of my research but nah - they're still very respectable streaming speakers to have around the house but I'm happier out.

wow.the previous app would eventually pick up the speakers if you left it on for a bit or restarted a few times. the new one doesn't, and can't find any products if I try and set up a new system.

it's found them now. then loses and finds them again every time I reopen.

the sonos experience in a nutshell

just had a message from a fellow Sonos user via Twitter :

"Don’t upgrade to the new Sonos app!
Nothing works any more
"

hope others here are not suffering as badly as this guy is ..

good god the new app is utter dogshit. how could they make something already quite bad worse