At risk of bouncing the rubble even further, we need to talk about where things stand going into September in regards tothe state of Sonos.

For a brief bit of context, Sonos in Mayupdated its appand the underlying system software that controls its family of wireless speakers in preparation for the next generation of products — including the Sonos Ace headphones that arrived just weeks later. That update went poorly, and otherwise working (and not-inexpensive) Sonos systems were left in various stages of disarray.

It was pretty apparent pretty quickly that something had gone very wrong, though it’s important to remember that everyone’s Sonos setup is going to be different, from the hardware itself, to the music services in use, to the network conditions that tie it all together. (That it ever worked at all as well as it did still seems a little magical.) And we will continue to note that Sonos was relatively quick to acknowledge the issues in the Sonos subreddit. But that’s not the same thing as a public acknowledgement, which didn’t come until about two months later whenCEO Patrick Spence issued a public apologyjust ahead of a furtherexplanation during the company’s earnings callin August.

All the while, Sonos has been updating its app and its platform and fixing issues every couple weeks. That’s a good thing.

Sonos needs to stop talking about fixing things and just get them fixed.

But as I spent the Sunday morning of my Labor Day Weekend sipping coffee and working on the New York Times Sunday Crossword, two things happened. First, I got an email from Sonos warning that it was my last chance to save 20% on hardware that, given the current state of the software, will only serve to frustrate me. And then I remembered that I’d ignored the “news” thatSonos had released a public Trello boardso that we can all see what’s being worked on.

At this point I don’t really care what Sonos has to say about the fixes. I don’t care about road maps and timelines and Trello boards. I don’tactually expect to be delighted, as Spence said customers one day will be again.

I care about the right speaker group actually activating when I select it. I care about volume controls not taking 10 or 15 seconds to work, if it all. I care about search not sucking.

I care about what Sonos does. I care about it fixing things. Anything else is a distraction.