Controllers and Music services

The Android S1 controller app just updated. There is a new notification at the top of the screen saying “It's time to update to Sonos S2. You can schedule an automatic update or do it now. More information”. The notification is large, taking up about 10% of my phone's screen. There is no option to close this notification, unlike previous similar ones. I have decided I want to retain the S1 app and not update to S2. I only use Sonos to play local files from my NAS and have zero interest in any additional features. I previously understood that this is fine; the FAQ regarding the controller says that customers can continue to use the S1 Controller app if they so choose. I've been through all the app menus I can find, but cannot see a way to disable this notification. Does anyone know if there is an option to do this somewhere? Changing the app’s Android notification permissions doesn’t address this problem. Ideally I could permanently disable these notificat

Can Sonos be steered over Apple Watch ? 

Attempting to add WRCH FM 100.5 to SONOS  & Favorites on a S1 Controller, not successful, using Manage: Add Radio Station https://www.audacy.com/wrchhttps://www.radio.net/s/wrchAudacy, formerly Entercom, Not Listed in “ Add Music Services “Other stations listed with Audacy work OK,such as 1080 WTIC, but favorites show station as Radio.com StationNext step is ?  

Anyone have any idea if Sonos will soon support Audacy.com streaming radio stations?  My local station left radio.com for Audacy and now we cannot listen to it.  Thanks!

Can Sonos add Scribd audiobooks to their services? Would love to listen to via Sonos instead of AirPlay, which does play on all 5 speakers, but drains my phone's battery. I listen to Audible all the time on Sonos & am grateful for that link-up. Now, Scribd would be amazing. Thanks!

Seems that there is no way to use the alarm on files on my hard drive, or a way to upload my files to Amazon or Apple Music.Let me know what I am missing.

Just picked up a WD MYclloud Home NAS. I loaded my music on the WD My cloud. When I went to play the songs from the Sonos 1 controller, I noticed that there a lot of songs that were not properly categorized by Artist and Album. It lists the tracks as unknown artist and album.It seems like the metadata is missing.  My music files were moved from my iTunes folder where it is saved by Artist/Album/Song title. The folder/files on the NAS look exactly like they do in the iTunes folder.It looks like it is happening with all my iTunes files that are MPEG audio files. I am using the S1 controller. Any one experience this and have a solution? Thanks!

Is there any chance that the Saxo app could be compatible with the Sonos player? We listen to books through that app.BW Heidi

Hi, I have a SONOS amp with 4 Monitor Audio C165 speakers connected. Prior to getting this setup in February 2021 I used Spotify premium, however I realised that Tidal appeared to offer consistently higher quality audio and even master files of some songs. In my naivety I signed up for their highest package thinking it would give me the best quality(not considering whether human ears can pick up on the differences between the higher quality files). Since researching the subject this last week, it seems clear that SONOS cannot reproduce the rates required for the master files. In short, my question to more experienced SONOS users and technophiles, is what streaming service is most suitable for wireless playback through the SONOS app?

Hello, May, last month, you informed us that there would be no more update for the old equipment on sonos1.I could live with that because everything was functional at home.And now you are pushing a final update that prevents most of the adjustments on my system.I can’t even change the sonosnet channel. I have computers, android phone on version 7, tablet on version 7, android boxes on version 7.You said the truth, there will be no more update, only a downgrade.What’s the reason behind all this?

Sonos S1 on iOS 14.4. Sonos S1 app has a persistent “It’s time tp update to Sonos S2” message that doesn’t go away. How do I clear this message?

Does the Sonos system honour the ‘Album Artist’ tag? I suspect not, but why not? Or is there  way round it…..Everything works - I can see my library, I can play music, I can play radio stations etc etc. Just cannot fathom how to get the darned set up to honour the ‘Album Artist’ tag. All other tools/systems I have do honour the tag (J River, Logitec media server, plex etc).Any info/advice gratefully recieved.

I currently have 4 Sonos connects (2 connects, 2 connect amps), running S1 software as they are older.  Found a used Connect amp that I would buy for another room, but it seems to be running S2 software. Can I downgrade it to S1? Basically want to control all units using the S1 app sort of thing.  But can’t seem to figure out if that’s doable, I know I can’t do the opposite.

Hey all ---I subscribe to MLB Gameday Audio. I’ve poked around on the support pages, but every reference I’ve found to listening to MLB on Sonos seems to be at least a year old. Have there been any updates? Can we listen to MLB on our Sonos players?Thanks!

Hi,How can I listen to YouTube on my Sonos One? I can listen to Spotify but can not find a way to direct youtube music. I don’t have youtube premium account.Thank you.

I am using latest version of S2 app for iOS. I am using local music stored on a NAS drive. Each music file has embedded artwork. Every time I put the S2 app in the background (i.e., switch to another app) and then switch back to S2, all the album artwork disappears, and then reloads … very slowly. It takes a couple of minutes to reload artwork for 26 albums. Does anybody know what is going on here and why? 

I have a Sonos Amp driving my home theater along with a few different Sonos speakers throughout the house. When I play music, they’re all grouped together and sound amazing. When I’m watching TV, the other speakers need to be turned down or muted or it creates a pretty bizarre echo as the dialog is slightly out of sync. Every time I sit down to watch TV I’m in the Sonos app muting other speakers.Ungroup on Autoplay - this feature is ALMOST perfect. What I’d rather have is “mute other speakers on autoplay” so I don’t have to re-group things when it’s time to play music. Re-grouping takes a lot longer and requires a phone compared to setting volume quickly by tapping the speaker or using voice control.In fact, my perfect feature request is to remember volume levels for each source.Source switches to TV: 25% volume on Amp, 5% volume on all other speakers. Source switches to Spotify: 25% volume on all speakers.I manually d

Hi wondering if you can help.  I have a Sky Q remote and has always worked the Playbar  but tonight something strange has happened.  the remote works the volume but only 2-3ft away but any further away it doesn’t respond.  the control is not faulty and works perfectly for every feature it’s programmed for so my fault finding is pointing to the bar, has anyone had the fault before or know or a fix?  I’ve power cycled the unit but doesn’t make any difference, I’ve also turned the IR off and on through the app.  please help  cheers 

When I do a song search while on the Sonos app with Spotify,  I will get only a few results and most of the time not the song I am looking for. When I do the same search directly on the Spotify app, I always get many more options and actually will find the exact song.  This is the reason I am saying Sonos App SUCKS.  After paying big price for the Sonos device, in my mind, this situation should not be happening.  (And please do not respond you need to subscribe to Sonos Radio...)

We would like to link a security camera to hardwired Sonos speakers. So an alarm can sound through the Sonos speakers when motion is detected through the security camera. Most of the house, including security, is controled via a Control 4 app. Could you please engineer the software to allow for such a scenario to be programmed?

Used to love my Sonos System. “Software Upgrades” has now brought me to despair.Only HP can do worse with flood ware. The processor capacity of my original products used to be fine. Now has useless Airplay (I have absolutely no desire for any Apple product) been forced upon my Sonos stuff. It has all been allocated as none worthy of support, by being grouped in S1. I have no desire to talk to or have conversations with the stuff that plays my radio and Tidal. Upon an “upgrade” did I end up with two Android Tablets and two pc CR 200 - no longer worthy of Sonos use!!!The time that I have wasted on getting my two CR200 to reconnect, exceeds by far the time that it took me to build a Rasberry Pie Player that handles 24bit at a far better sound quality. Rasberry players can be set up as syncronized multi room players as well.Please bring some confidence back in my investment in 10 Sonos units.Easter greetings to my fellow S1 Sonos owners from-

Hello everyone!    I couldn't find any new topics on the fact that extra channels do not show up in the Sonos Sirius XM integration. I find it very odd that the app on my phone allows me to cast to Google but not to Sonos. Spotify allows me to cast to Sonos. Are they still adding people to the list for this I'm not sure why an integrator is large as Sonos can't get the extra channels added even though they don't have numbers you would think it's pretty easy to do so. If anybody's got a hack let me know I appreciate it.

Hi,How do I update my first and last name on my account?Thanks.

I am using Amazon Music HD with Sonos S2 and can’t for the life of me figure out how to play a “Station” by an artist. I am looking to pick a band and then have the “Station” play back that artist and a collection of music from similar artists. I have Spotify premium and there is always a choice in S2 for playing a Station when you search for the artist. Is there something I am missing?? I can play stations from artists by doing it through the Amazon Music HD app and using Airplay, but I want to do it natively in the Sonos app….

The new update of the Sonos S1 app keeps nagging me to upgrade to S2 which I can’t do as it breaks my investiment into the Sonos infrastructure Play 5 Gen 1 etc. Can I turn this off? It’s constant nagging irritates the hell out of me and is starting to put me off using my Sonos products. Certainly will stop me buying more…..