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source: mastodon
date: 2025-03-09 17:30:38.58 +00
title: "Mastodon post from March 9, 2025, 114133659719391062"
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post_uri: https://mastodon.social/users/gravely/statuses/114133659719391062
post_id: 114133659719391062
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  - mastodon
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this is all so stupid. I assume accessing http streams and favoriting them is not a revenue opportunity and thus prioritized somewhere below first party enlightenment sound daemon support, so the “new” mobile app hard-rake-staircase-ollie 🙄 (the designers did a great job, the engineering decisions worry me) still can't do what I've been doing for nearly fifteen years.

home assistant can, clumsily, so I faked up the old UI with four sonos cards each locked into single mode.


![The sonos mac app on my machine this morning. Sonos has used this hokey three column layout for a very long time. Left: speaker selection and grouping. center: now playing artwork over playlist. right: source services, media library, or favorites, currently displaying favorites.](./114133658782164351.png)

![home assistant using the synthwave theme (purple with pink headers and white text), with a music dashboard selected.left column: speaker selection. center: now playing artwork over playlist for the selected speakers. right: media selection showing “browse media” (useless) and Favorites](./114133659156493594.png)

![the same dashboard on my phone, which collapses all of the columns into one, is incredibly silly, but works just fine for me, assuming I can trick myself into remembering to use it instead of opening the bad app first, which I tend to do.](./114133659472685525.png)