Controllers and Music services

Currently, the soundbar volume is controlled by the volume buttons on your smartphone only when you are in the Sonos app. The moment you leave the Sonos app screen(this does not mean quitting the Sonos app), you cannot control the soundbar volume with the volume buttons on your smartphone. What bothers me is that I have to stay in the Sonos app all the time to control the soundbar volume. The moment I leave the app to do something else on my smartphone(for example, leaving the sonos app to text someone, or leaving the Sonos app to browse the internet for a while), I cannot control the soundbar volume. I have to come back into the app screen.P.S. Again, this assumes that you have left the Sonos app screen for a while, not that you quit the Sonos app.

Has anyone had any luck with the 100 song limitation on your Amazon Playlist? Under the previous App I had around 400 songs.  Had to split up into 4 playlists.  What a pain in the A$$. 

This app which was absolutely fine 4 years ago is now a steaming pile of ****… Thousands wasted on hardware for an app that does not work… Funnily, I always thought that having a software component to the overall solution would be a good thing, allowing for continual improvements to the experience which each iterative release… What I didn’t consider, was a management team willing to make software changes to degrade and make the experience worse…Terrible company with terrible culture! Moderator Note: Modified in accordance with the Community Code of Conduct. 

Hi all.As with other posts of this nature, I am also experiencing issues with different volume levels of the Era 300 surrounds after Trueplay tuning.I have an Arc Ultra with 2 x Era 300’s and a Sub Gen 4. All of which sound excellent - especially with Trueplay enabled.However….I have tried all of the usual techniques to try and mitigate this volume issue - but so far, the situation has not improved. It’s always the left side of the acoustic that’s always louder.I am using the latest software and hardware firmware (as of 14/03/25).To be clear, the sound levels of the surrounds are fine without Trueplay enabled or configured.I have also tried swapping the rear speakers around and re-configuring (to see if it’s a hardware issue) but still the same result keeps occurring.So with this in mind, I have the following questions:is it possible to send Sonos techs diagnostics of before and after Trueplay calibration to see if there is an issue here? after Trueplay is enabled, it is impossible to

I just upgraded to a Spotify Family Plan. 2 of those accounts are for kids. They each have an ipad with the sonos app installed that connects to a single Sonos network. In other words, the sonos app is installed on multiple home devices that access the same sonos account.I want to set up each family’s spotify account on their respective Sonos app. But when I login with my Spotify credentials, it only connects to my account.What am I missing? How do I set them up to access their spotify kids account on the sonos app?

In a drunken stuper I accidentally upgraded my two play 3's to S2. Nothing but issues ever since. Cannot get them back to S1 even after an hour and a half on the phone to technical support. Reset made no difference and attempted downgrade did nothing . Still stuck with S2 which in my opinion is hopeless. And it took me forever to configure them to a stereo pair as they were before on S1. Is it me, am I missing something, why didn't Sonos just leave it alone ? Never had  a problem in thirteen years before this. Only thing I can think is don't get drunk and have a grandchild ask for a Mary Poppins song !  😂

There are a number of reasons Sonos has let so many down and are still struggling 9+ months after forcing a terrible app (+cloud control) on a once mostly happy/repeat customer base. Yes the app is still sub-par even with some major improvements lately, yet almost a year in and still some features/services/function are not even on par with S2-1 (even SonoPad &  SonoPhone are better apps).  Outrageous! Firmware (software for the units) is also an issue which is why we keep seeing it updated so often. All this so they could shove some BT cans out the door and force us into their cloud. Forcing our once local control over to Sonos’ leased servers just adds all sorts of potential lag/security issues/complications, not to mention, future potential monetization of our user data (see also new TV set-tip box). Yes there are some lucky users in the Goldilocks zone, but not most or Spence would still have his job.  Short-sighted, greedy, lying leadership backed by an apparently blind board s

As per the title… I use a Sonos connect and have tried to reinstall the Innuos Zenith MK3 library, but comes back with cannot find music… was working fine earlier

Hi all, any news on when Playlists will be showing Artwork and the ability to add and create new ones?

Do you have questions about Apple Lossless Music and Sonos? Check out the latest video from Peter Pee. Enjoy! 

I have 6 x Sonos Ones and SL’s, 2 x Sonos Amps and 3 x Sonos Ports which, as you can imagine, was a huge investment on my part to channel my YouTube Streaming Music via my Android phone across my property. Recently YT Music (YT) stopped working. When I try to play a YT playlist, I get the spinning circle of death on the play symbol. On the 1 time out of 15 it works, shuffle no longer works. Or it plays one different song then repeats the 4 songs its already previously played. Then it goes back to not playing at all.     I have unlinked my account, relinked, reset my router, ‘forgotten’ my entire system, reset and reconnected every one of my components, uninstalled the app, reinstalled it, relinked YT, and relinked components. Sonos S1 gives me a really helpful option to download a google chrome app instead of downgrading my system to work on the S1 App.I see you can connect to the system by bypassing the Sonos App completely and connect directly to the system via the Spotify app. Howev

In the iOS app, I would like to be able to add multiple podcast episodes at once to the play que. E.g. by clicking the three dots of a podcast show and choosing “Add to End of Queue”. Today, in the TuneIn or Sveriges Radio channels, it is not possible to add multiple/all episodes in one click to the que. Unlike songs/albums/playlists in the Spotify “channel”, you have to add each podcast episode manually, one by one. Very tedious.It is a mystery why this simple ”feature” has not been added yet. After all, the ability to play podcasts has been around for 10 years or so.In the desktop app it is easier to add multiple episodes though, than in the iOS app. Another podcast related problem is to add podcast episodes in chronological order (or simply reverse the play order of the que). Many podcasts is published with the newest episode at top. But in some cases, as with audio books published by free public radio, this is creates a problem, since you want to listen to the book podcast episodes

Is the controller ever going to get better and actually be in control? Had to leave radio on today for 4 hours when out because Sonos wouldn’t let me turn off, having tried for 20 mins before leaving. Regularly have songs stopped and switched but most infuriated about simply not being able to connect whilst having speakers playing in rooms I’m not in. C’mon Sonos - SORT IT OUT!

When will I be able to add songs to my sonos playlist 

Where do I go to get the settings of sub, bar, etc.. ?

My sonos One wont work today as it says I must reauthorise it. It asks me to also reauthorise Tunein. Do I have to have TuneIn to make my Sonos work? Is there a work around? 

Boa noite, tenho uma cx play 3 e vez por outra ela para de se conectar ao meu wi-fi, já tentei várias vezes mas diz: produto não encontrado 

Do you know if it’s planned, that Sonos App let control volume of speaker again through iPhone volume buttons?I did read, that it is not possible anymore, because of Apple’s decision. But I am wondering, why I can control the volume of my Bose SoundTouch Series 2 WiFi speaker in the Bose app with the iPhone volume buttons. It’s the same, isn’t it? The Bose app itself also does not play music and no AirPlay or Bluetooth is used.

When trying to delete a Sonos Music Library song or album from the shared folder on my PC so they no longer appear in my Music Library and are no longer on my hard drive, which related files do I delete? I would guess I need to delete the flac, jpg, log and cue files. Is that correct? And to delete an entire album, do I just delete all the files related to all the songs in that album? 

I’ve linked to my Apple Music library, but am having problems with playlists.   The playlists appear as weird long names and there are hundreds of them (for example:  P876360113-As95196478_audio_en_gr256_mp4).  I’ve made sure I include the folder share where Apple Music library is and also I’ve manually exported the library to XML format where the music files are kept, but I can’t seem to get it to work.    

With so many streaming platforms available, which ones work best with Sonos in terms of quality, compatibility, and features? Let’s compare services like Spotify, Apple Music, Tidal, and others to see which offers the best experience.

I’m new to the Community, as I’m trying to find a solution to a long time problem. I can’t see an answer when I search the Community, so here’s the problem.I tend to play direct from Spotify to my Sonos system. I’ve had a problem for some months now that sometimes tracks just repeat themselves - could be from a playlist or an album, but basically just repeats track. There’s some weird stuff going on, as what’s on screen is ‘stuck’ - so looks like it’s halfway through playing a song, but actually it’s moved on to playing the song again.I don’t have this problem with Spotify playing to headphones / car, just to Sonos speakers. And when I play from within the Sonos app, not a problem either.I have had a few other problems (speakers dropping off the system, needing a reset to rejoin the system) but I’ve been able to fix these.I tried Spotify support, thinking may be a Spotify rather than Sonos issue - their solution was to uninstall and reinstall Spotify app, which worked for about a day b

I have been having an issue for months where during every third song while streaming Apple Music, Dolby Atmos clicks off and the song reverts to just stereo. I either have to pause the song and restart or back the song up to the beginning to re-enable Atmos. I can’t believe the engineers aren’t aware of this issue. It is extremely aggravating. It’s always something with this app.  I have Arc Ultra, Era 300’s, and Sub gen 3.

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So after months of misery are things looking up? I did practically a full day of changing tracks, adding tracks, pausing, adjusting volume, etc like the good old days yesterday. Obviously I didn’t want to get too excited but after playing with it again today for a few hours and still things working as they should I’ve got a spring in my step and life is seemingly getting better 😂I’m not exactly sure when or if indeed an update has sorted things because I’d given up on it and stopped trying to use it, I’ve not done anything different on my end so fingers crossed. 🙏🏼