Sonos Update 3.6 Removes Popular Feature:ZunePass. Customers Told: Sucks To be You

[BoredSysAdmin]

This makes no sense to me. A tipster to BoingBoing alerted the site that a recent software update to the Sonos music system (works with PC, Mac, iOS and Android devices to stream music to one or many speakers around the home) removes a feature key for many users: the ability to play Windows DRM tracks.

Windows DRM, or PlaysForSure, protects WMA (Windows Media Audio) files, such as those you get via the ZunePass music service. Before the 3.6 version update users were able to stream these tracks through the Windows Media Player/Center to their Sonos speaks. Now it’s no longer possible.

Sonos users are understandably upset since the company did not make it super clear that the new update would do this. Plus, there’s no way to roll back to the previous version.

Source:
Sonos Update 3.6 Removes DRM Playback Feature With No Rollback Option

 

[96cobra10101]

If I was a user this would be pretty crappy. I have a Zune, but I own all my music on CD's. I refuse to download music that is of lesser quality. I do know when I went to upload some music to my Iphone, that was ripped to the format my Zune uses, it converted it to another file to play on my Iphone. Wouldn't this be doing the same thing? Just converting the files?