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Finally, after a bit more than 5 months and having learned a great deal about Hollywood and RapaGUI, here it is: my first Amiga program called SonosController.
This is a first public beta for AOS4 and MorphOS and I'd be more than happy to receive any comments or bug reports here.

Features:

• searches your network automatically for Sonos speakers (that was a tricky one, doing an M-SEARCH multicast call, see viewtopic.php?f=23&t=3290 for more details)
• listing your speakers with the info of the currently playing song, with 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 (see viewtopic.php?f=10&t=3287 for more details on how I did it).
• sending control commands (sending SOAP requests senden, another tricky one, see viewtopic.php?f=2&t=3224 for more details):
  • 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
• 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

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.

Well, and this is how it all looks like:




And here are the download links for the 1st beta of SonosController:
AmigaOS 4.1: https://mrupp.ch/betas/SonosController_OS4.lha
MorphOS: https://mrupp.ch/betas/SonosController_MOS.lha

The following features I saved for a later version and do not need to be reported as missing:

• german translation (english only for now)
• grouping / ungrouping of speakers
• integration of music services such as Spotify, etc.
• modifying the current queue, adding songs (or whole playlists), remove songs, change song order
• save a queue as a new playlist
• modifying playlists (change, rename, delete, etc.)
• sleep timer functionality
• alarms functionality
• ringho notifications

I'm actually mainly interested in bugs and am very glad for any being reported here.

Well then, happy testing, hope to be able to release a first version to OS4Depot / MorphZone / Aminet very soon...

Cheers, Michael

Wow, this looks cool and huge! Too bad I don't have compatible speaker setup... but at least the program starts under MorphOS Would love to test in in real use...

Hmm.. I get hits in the MorphOS debug log when I close program's Preferences window. And if I repeat that few times the whole application crashes. If you can't get it reproduced, I try to find time to test more...

jPV wrote: ↑Sat Jul 31, 2021 8:30 pm Hmm.. I get hits in the MorphOS debug log when I close program's Preferences window. And if I repeat that few times the whole application crashes. If you can't get it reproduced, I try to find time to test more...

Thanks for your report. I am on holiday for the week but I'll have a look at it when I'm back straight away.

What I forgot to mention in my original post are the system requirements. You'll need:

• MUI 5.0 (RapaGUI plugin)
• AmiSSL 4.x (hURL plugin)

Congratulations on the release, it looks really polished!

jPV wrote: ↑Sat Jul 31, 2021 8:30 pm Hmm.. I get hits in the MorphOS debug log when I close program's Preferences window. And if I repeat that few times the whole application crashes. If you can't get it reproduced, I try to find time to test more...

Yes, I could reproduce this issue on MorphOS and reported it here: viewtopic.php?f=27&t=3379
But I could fix it and a new beta 2 is out now (same links as before, see original post).

Is the absence of reported bugs here the result of my most excellent programming or the lack of Sonos owners among Hollywood programmers? Is there anybody that could actually test the thing out? Anybody?

Well, I dared doing it and released SonosController 1.0:

• OS4 Depot: http://os4depot.net/?function=showfile& ... roller.lha
• MorphOS Storage: https://www.morphos-storage.net/?id=1662556

Enjoy!
Cheers, Michael

Congrats on the release, buddy! Unfortunately I have no Sonos (compatible) speaker, so I cannot test and use it. But I think this is helpful for many Amiga users.