Old Sonos controller has some advantages
by Volker Weber
If you listen to Last.fm a lot, you have a very good reason to stay with your old CR100 instead of longing for the new sexy touchscreen beast: the skip forward button. Without even looking at the device you can hit the button to skip a track you don't like. This works in the current zone, no matter which screen you are looking at. Not so easy on the touchscreen controller, which has fewer buttons.
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They could add an optional "double-click-on-volume-up-button-to-go-to-next-track"-feature. Like the double and triple click on the iPhone.
They could. But I doubt they would. Sonos keeps their gear very simple to operate. And it would definitely confuse users when double pressing a button does a different thing. And unlike software designed by a committee there won't be so many configuration options.
"unlike software designed by a committee there won't be so many configuration options"Volker, what software might you be referring to? ;-)
Seriously though, the lack of dedicated buttons for forward/back seems to be major omission to me. Very surprising for Sonos.
