the sonophone ios app has a delightfully responsive volume slider but the navigation confuses me so I can’t get into the habit of using it exclusively.

this home assistant hack can’t do search, which is a bummer.

honestly plexamp continues to be the most delightful but they’ve chosen to deprioritize and kill http streams too, and its speaker targets are limited to airplay and bluetooth, and both stink.

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.

Everloving wife and I used to call the corner grocery, Duc Loi (r i p), "the dl”, now a few years into having moved and Casa Guadalupe being our default, I’ve finally managed to stop saying “the dl” by saying “the gl.”