Default source when turning on power

+1 This would be a very nice feature if: - you plugin the Sonos at a new location (e.g. at first you hear in the living room and now you plug it in the garden to continue the audio book without searching the title and position again) - the Sonos restarts after power outage - people operate their Sonos through switch outlets A "play last source" and if not available "play default" in combination would be perfect.

Very much +1.
Had I known this before my purchase I would have had second thoughts!
My girlfriend will hate that I replaced the old radio for something where she needs the phone every time she turns it on!

Same here 😉

so true, my wife is still not satisfied, even after 2 years of running Sonos. And think about the children who just want to switch on the radio ... do you really want them to use the smart phone every time?

Additional Feature of this idea:
Every powerless Sonos should be part of the controller list and it should be possible to start a radio stream before the Sonos goes online again. After e.g. 5 minutes this command is canceld automatically if the Sonos is still offline (to avoid starting the stream at the next day if the wrong Sonos was selected).

This means offline Sonos must be "deleted" if they are permanently removed.

This was the killer feature for me!
I was told by two colleagues independently how nice it was that you just hit the play/pause button to start listening the last source (actually just playing a paused source), but no one did mention that this did not apply after a power cycle.

Technical:
If the Players do not have a nonvolatile storage they should auto-safe the playlists to the network storage (so only if this is available the option works). Or if Sonos wants to raise the user experience they should save the last 100 playlists in a Sonos cloud service. By that a new option "last playlists" would be possible as well.

The non-volatile memory is there so no need to bring the cloud into it. Sonos is becoming too dependent on external connectivity as it is so I'd like to see this feature be implemented using a local, and therefore stable and reliable, solution.

I don't understand why Sonos is waiting to implement this feature. I'm selling SONOS Products and this "default source for a room" thing is a cause why customers move away from Sonos to Teufel/Raumfeld. Because they have this simple feature - SONOS does not. To the SONOS Product Developer Team which might be reading this forum - please get this little thing in you system an it will be perfect an save you place as N°1 Wirless Streaming System....

I don't understand why people are unplugging the Sonos devices to begin with? They are designed to be used in a room, and it will work as you'd like if you stop turning it off. I have 8 Sonos connect amps and 1 Sonos connect - 1 for each zone in my house where I want music and I leave them on/in standby at all times. Why make it harder than it needs to be?