| Readme: | Short: Control Sonos speakers with your Amiga
Author: Michael Rupp
Uploader: SonosController mrupp ch
Type: comm/misc
Version: 1.1
Replaces: comm/misc/SonosController_MOS.lha
Requires: MUI 3.8, AmiSSL 4, one or more Sonos speakers
Architecture: ppc-morphos >= 3.0
Kurz: Steuere Sonos-Speaker mit deinem Amiga
URL: https://mrupp.ch
SonosController lets you control your precious Sonos speakers from any Amiga
connected to the same network.
If you like SonosController, please consider a donation by PayPal:
https://paypal.me/mirupp
Any donation is highly appreciated, no matter how small, and it helps to keep
motivation up to develop software like this for the Amiga!
Features
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- searches your network automatically for Sonos speakers (that was a tricky
one) but if that fails for whatever reason, they can also be added manually
- listing your speakers with the info of the currently playing song, sporting
an icon that is downloaded from the speaker itself
- subscription of the speaker's UPNP events (that was probably the hardest
one to crack, man-o-man), it means that the controller gets a notification
if the Sonos system receives a command from some other controller
(f.e. from your mobile or on some other computer) or directly from the
speaker's buttons
- sending control commands (sending SOAP requests, another tricky one):
- Play
- Pause
- Next
- Back
- Jump to time index
- Volume
- Mute
- Shuffle
- Repeat (everything, current song)
- Crossfade
- display of the current song's title, artist, and album on the selected
speaker
- download and display of the album cover if possible (f.e. if embedded into
the playing MP3 file)
- local cache for album covers for better performance
- local cache can be emptied in the Preferences dialog
- album cover download can be deactivated in the Preferences dialog
- listing the selected speaker's current queue
- playing a song by clicking an entry in the queue
- listing the Sonos favourites incl. starting one
- listing the Sonos playlists incl. starting one (normal oder shuffled)
- listing TuneIn's saved radio stations incl. starting one
- listing TuneIn's saved radio shows incl. starting one
- browsing your music library incl. starting songs, albums, etc. (normal or
shuffled)
- searching your music library by search string and search type (artist,
album, composer, genre, song or imported playlist)
- the last x search strings are save, whereas x can be configured in the
Preferences (0 - max. 50)
- saved search strings can be emptied in the Preferences dialog
- keyboard shortcuts
And I absolutely wanted to have an Amiga exclusive feature in it, something
that the original Sonos app doesn't feature:
- Exporting playlists in M3U format. These can be put into your music
library's "playlists" folder to be re-imported into Sonos, thus enabling
you to kind of backup and restore your playlists.
Technical Details
=================
SonosController is created using Hollywood 9.0 and its plugins RapaGUI 2.0,
hURL 1.1 and XMLParser 1.1.
Side Note & Thanks
==================
SonosController is my very first Amiga program (I do C# normally) and would
not have been possible without the help of Andreas Falkenhahn and the great
Hollywood community at https://forums.hollywood-mal.com/. Thank you all for
your support!
Disclaimer
==========
All use of SonosController is at your own risk and I can't be held
responsible for any damage it might do to your Sonos or other equipment.
But really, I can't see any way how that might be possible.
And finally: note that I'm not associated with Sonos in any way other than
being a user of their products. Please visit https://www.sonos.com/ to find
out more about them and their excellent sound systems.
History
================
1.1 (27.09.2021)
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- NEW: first release for AmigaOS 3.x besides 4.1 and MorphOS
- NEW: lots of performance improvements to make it usable on a 68060 cpu,
resulting in being blazingly fast on PPC-Amigas.
- NEW: MUI 3.8 compatibility (instead of 5.0)
- NEW: zones (= rooms) are now saved in the config file so when starting the
app the next time no network scan is necessary, resulting in a much quicker
startup.
- NEW: to save on network traffic and CPU load, loading of the current queue
can now be deactivated in the Preferences.
- NEW: network scan can now be cancelled and it's no longer possible to start
a second scan while one is already running (this led to speakers being
listed multiple times in v1.0).
- NEW: queue lists are now cached in memory and are only reloaded if a change
has been reported by the according UPNP event.
- NEW: various zone values are now cached in memory and are no longer reloaded
when switching between zones.
- NEW: loading of album art for radio stations
- NEW: timeout for UPNP subscription has been increased from 10 minutes to
1 hour (same as with the original Sonos app).
- NEW: added progress in percent while loading a list in the music source
- NEW: added the possibility to cancel loading a list in the music source
- NEW: "Settings" menu to accomodate the menuitems "Preferences..." and "MUI..."
- NEW: "About MUI..." menuitem to follow the MUI styleguide
- CHANGED: shortcuts for "Next" / "Previous" from Ctrl-LEFT/RIGHT to Alt-
LEFT/RIGHT because on an Amiga keyboard the Ctrl key is quite far away from
the cursor keys.
- REMOVED: browsing the music library by song: it was useless and took ages,
it's much better to use the search instead.
- FIXED: renewal of UPNP subscription as well as unsubscription
- FIXED: TV input is now handled correctly.
- FIXED: improved handling when clicking like mad into the track position slider.
- FIXED: disable play button if action "Play" is not available
- FIXED: lots of minor bugfixes
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1.0 (16.08.2021)
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- first public release for AmigaOS 4.1 and MorphOS 3.x
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